Little man meme
I went to see ( New York City-based) John Zorn, one of my favorite jazz composers, performing with his experimental game-playing ensemble, Cobra. The recordings found fame far beyond San Francisco. The recordings quickly gained a cult following, and were adapted into comic books, zines, a theatrical production and the 2002 independent film Shut Yer Dirty Little Mouth, starring Gill Gayle and Glenn Shadix as Ray and Peter, respectively. A number of other volumes were issued later.
The first Shut Up, Little Man! compact disc was released in early 1993. Haskett died in 1996 of liver problems due to alcoholism. In 1992, Huffman died of a heart attack brought on by colon cancer, pancreatitis, and alcoholism. Eddie Lee and Mitchell sometimes goaded Ray and Peter with prank telephone calls. Eddie and Mitchell began tape recording the arguments, and distributing copies among their friends. Eddie Lee and Mitchell moved into the apartment in 1987, and discovered that their neighbors, Haskett and Huffman, argued nearly constantly, with Peter often shouting "shut up, little man!" at Ray. The recordings were made by "Eddie Lee Sausage" and "Mitchell D.", who lived in a bright pink apartment building at 237 Steiner Street (dubbed the " Pepto Bismol Palace") in San Francisco's Lower Haight district.
Bananafish magazine arranged for a commercial release of the tapes in 1992. Haskett and Raymond Huffman in San Francisco. Shut Up, Little Man! is the title of audio vérité recordings of two argumentative and violent alcoholics, Peter J. “KEN GRIFFIN BOUGHT THE CONSTITUTION – WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK!?!?” was the title of one example.Poster for the 2010 documentary Shut Up Little Man! – An Audio Misadventure Other posts were less political science-minded. “That should belong to the people of the United States.” It’s an insult to law abiding citizens,” read on response. “Blatant disregard for what it stands for. “If that isn’t the most Ken Griffin-ish thing you’ve ever heard.” “Ken Griffin beat down a crowd-sourced effort to buy an early copy of the constitution on behalf of the American people,” blared a post on subreddit r/AMCStock. It was like a Saturday Night Live sketch the whole time.”īut by winning Thursday’s bidding war, Griffin has spent more than $43 million to troll his trolls right back, sending a message - purposefully or not - that he can still beat back the populist wave of modern investors using DeFi with just the power of his own will…and checkbook.Īnd the response to Griffin’s constitutional clap back has been swift and brutal on social media. Just last week, Griffin said in an interview at the DealBook Summit that “The whole GameStop conspiracy…was like a bad comedy joke. The famously press-shy billionaire has been increasingly vocal about his annoyance with the Apes turning him into the mayonnaise Darth Vader of modern finance. Those assertions have not been commented upon by Griffin or his team.Īll that enmity and trolling have clearly gotten Griffin’s attention. The Apes are also fond of memes that posit Griffin eats only mayonnaise. The most popular of those being a still from a video that gives the billionaire hedge fund manager and market maker’s face a confused and gormless air that can be used as a canvas for text like “KenGriffinLied,” referring to their belief that Griffin perjured himself to Congress in February when he claimed that Citadel Securities played no role in Robinhood’s decision to restrict the trading of meme stocks on Jan 28.Ĭitadel has consistently rebutted those charges, even tweeting out a Griffin statement via tweet in late September - an almost unheard moment of virtual intimacy between Griffin and his haters - and, also on Thursday, a federal judge in Florida dismissed a widely publicized lawsuit accusing the two firms of collusion in January.
In fact, the Apes of Reddit have made Griffin into their prime villain, with daily onslaughts of memes using his face as a form of emotional target practice. When retail investors post about short squeezing the stocks of GameStopĪnd other memes, it is Griffin that is almost always cited as the personification of whom they are hoping gets squozed. News that Citadel founder Ken Griffin had pipped the team behind ConstitutionDAO in a last-minute bidding war officiated by Sotheby’s hit on Friday afternoon, throwing yet another tonnage of outrage kerosene onto the flames of hatred that already burned so bright for the man that retail investors on social media refer to derisively as “Kenny G.”