Trustafarian

http://www.trustafarian.com

‘As the college basketball tournament gets ready to begin and the hype surrounds less traditional, smaller schools like St. Joseph’s University – what an awful loss at the hands of Xavier – it’s hard not to make ESPN.com our Web Site of the Week. Oh, it’s all SO enthralling.

But what fun is there on ESPN’s site? Sure, there is a plethora of statistics with up-to-the-second scores. BORING. We need something fun, or something that makes fun.

This week, we’re opting for number two. Trustafarian: A Magazine for the Well-to-do-Activist is the epitome of insulting sites. It would be hard to believe that this site was not created either in Boulder or with Boulder in mind.

The site begins with an introductory tutorial on protesting, opening with the sentence: “If you’re thinking about going to a protest, good!” From there, it goes on to describe how to choose the protest, how to dress for the event, what to bring, how to accessorize and how to act.

In that tongue-in-cheek way that often is misunderstood, Trustafarian.com has the activist style down to a T. It’s such a swift, well-punctuated slap in the face that Trustafarians will never know what hit them.

Perhaps the best way to accurately describe this situation locally comes from the Epinions.com Web site. The review titled “Why Boulder Sucks More than any Place I’ve ever Lived, Including Syracuse” (http://www.epinions.com/content_71479955076) states: “My foster sister, who lived with us here for a year, witnessed the defining moment of our sojourn: two white kids with dreadlocks double-park a brand-new red Saab with ski-racks, exit the car, and begin panhandling on the main drag downtown.”

It doesn’t get any better than that.

Trustafarian.com should get this person to write for them. As for now, what the site does well is its Politics page, which features a list of “Issues: Cool or Pass?” Check it out.

This online magazine still has ground that it needs to cover but it appears to still be in the formative stages. With any luck, the site’s content will continue to improve and provide in full that cynical wit with which it has begun.