Awkward, Mockward

Introducing our newest segment; Awkward/Mockward. Feeling a bit nostalgic for those Hot/Not Hot lists we lived by when we were twelve, we've decided to bring the sentiment back. Because they're are a whole hell of a lot of awkward things out there, but there are also a lot of less-awkward, kind of really-fucking-normal things that pose as awkward, too. We call these things Mockward. And while deciphering between truly awkward things and their not-so-awkward counterparts can be tough, we'll make the process a bit easier by coming up with succinct lists in which we deem things 'awkward' or 'mockward.'

AWKWARD/MOCKWARD

Welcome to the Dollhouse/Juno
Intrepretative Dancing/Rabbit Dancing
Robert Downey Jr/Zach Braff
Hillary Clinton/Barrack Obama
Cleats/Crocs
Francis Bacon/Basquiat
San Francisco/New York City
Henry Miller/Chuck Pahlinick
Strangers With Candy/ Flight of the Conchords
Cassette Tape/Vinyl
Bob Saget/Sarah Silverman
Bowl-Cut/Mullets
Old Man Beard/Moustache
Las Vegas' Lance Burton/A&E's Criss Angel MindFreak
Mama Cass's Ham Sandwich Death/ Elliot Smith's Knife-Through-The-Heart Death
Soccer Mom Jeans/High-Waist Jeans
E-Harmony/MySpace
Cancer/Drug Addiction
Wesley Willis/Conor Oberst (of Bright Eyes)
Epilepsy/ODing
O'Douls/PBR
Naming your child Dweezer (Frank Zappa)/Naming your child Pilot Inspektor (Jason Lee)
NAMBLA/PETA
Pale Fire by Nobokov/ Franny & Zooey by Salinger