for lack of a better use of this vehicle…
I’ll just come right out and say it: I fucking hate blogs. today, at least. and, yeah, yeah, I know this is one, but not that kind. I hope. I tried to convince a friend this morning that blog was merely a vehicle, that saying, “blogs are ____” is just like saying, “books are ____”– ...
spam gorgeous
I am developing a new respect for spam. spam wants me to love it. I’m not talking about the canned meat– I mean those surely?computer?generated? messages that come down the wire to all of us pimping the latest viagra or mortgage rate. I have this sneaking suspicion of a lurking poetic consciousness operating amid this ...
it’s not about the suitor (he’s just a gorgeous, unforeseen and most welcome side-effect)
building community– aka “social networking”. sometimes, I would even venture so far as to say, social engineering– but that’s when there’s actually an engineer at the throttle– and indeed power can go either way– become corrupt or simply, well, powerful. the question at hand is: what do we make of the social relations we extend ...
borg me
so, yeah, the rumors you’ve heard are true: I, sarah holmes townsend, have eaten crow and, at long last, joined friendster after having vowed never to touch it with a high-jump pole. a friend asked me recently, “so what’s with all the social networking?” and I was thinking about it the day before yesterday in ...
in which thefacebook.com lets me down
I am so very very sad at the moment. not only to learn that the father of a dear friend of mine died recently– and, no, I do not include this in this post in any glib way. quite frankly, not only is it awful news, impossible to respond to other than lamely and uselessly, ...
names & faces
so, thanks to daniel, I’ve joined the collective. no, not stoopid poopy friendster, bastion of the socially mercenary– I’m talking about thefacebook. where you can connect via your skooooool connections. college/grad school AND high school. it’s just like that publication we had at hotchkiss, names & faces, which we (girls) used to pore over literally ...
fun with blogging
[testimonial of the converted] check it out! if I want to post more than one entry on a single day, I so totally CAN! how cool is that? I take back every nasty thing I ever said about weblogs. [/testimonial of the converted]