13th Jan 2003
Give, Get, Take and Have
I’m please to report that step-brother Jay’s blog no longer sucks. Well, okay, it never quite sucked, but it was pretty sucky to look at for a while. He’s fixed that now and expressed a new interest in making it fun to read.
Jay, as Elizabeth and Here I Type can attest, is a very funny guy, now at last trying to put that talent to use professionally (no, not just on the blog). Watch for his name in lights one day (flashing blue and red lights during his big prison break, perhaps). Meanwhile, click by once in a while (particularly if you have a masochistic obsession with really obscure music), or at least promptly enjoy this enlighting year-in-review kind of latest observation I lift from ggth.blogspot.com:
Top Ten Disturbing Cultural Trends:
1) Everything is an experience now, even carpet cleaning.
2) The struggle for the supremacy of soup, such that, people carry it with them at all times and bait those with inferior broth into sheepish admission of said soup’s metaphoric potential to illustrate the randomness of the universe and their own shabby little lives. (See also Progresso Ads)
3) The hyperbolic comparison of one horrific event to another, more profound and poetic tradgedy. There is only one Holocaust folks.
4) Technology’s ability to turn your life into metafiction, and not even good metafiction at that
5) Adoration Of The Golden Calf
6) “The newness of the thing amazed me”
7) Last minute clemancy
The reemergence of presumption
9) Our Nation’s Young People believing they hold a patent on decadence and the chronicleing of its usage.
10) Turning nouns into verbs.
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