1. I forgot in my dream snippets “poem” to include:
Back in Paris, which had WATERSLIDES!
My own studio there –– teeny tiny, containing one big bed and seven fluffy armchairs
Sneaking into a gorgeous apartment and finding a lamp made from butterfly wings
2. Reaction to Last Week’s (? I don’t even know what my name is anymore) Article in the Times about Facebook:
MT: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/technology/shunning-facebook-and-living-to-tell-about-it.html?hp
kind of a weird article, like the angle it takes
me: i don’t feel like i miss shit
from not being on facebook
MT: yeah neither do i
doesn’t mention the kind of stigma experience ive had
me: oh like
too cool for facebook?
MT: at a bar, was very well hitting it off with this girl who was a friend of a friend
when she was heading out
i was like, can i have your number
she said she would just look me up on facebook
i said i didnt have facebook, and she gave me a look like i had a rap sheet or something
me: what!?
that’s crazy!
MT: like i must be somehow untrustworthy that she can’t look to see if im not crazy
i feel like its become this weird semi social litmus test for people, being able to survey facebook before gearing up actual interpersonal relationships
its like “nope, i want to find out everything about you before i actually have a conversation”
me: yeah
it’s socially sanitizing in a way
i’m pissed someone wrote this article before me
MT: haha
i think you may take a little different route though
and its been written before
maybe not in a major publication though
me: totes
i’ll think of my own spin maybe
?
MT: yeah
well, you’d also have to include the fact that you wanted to get rid of your cell phone and replace it with a landline that can’t dial out
me: yes
i would certainly include that
that is good info
MT: yep
*As always, Gchat conversations are edited for clarity and content, aka to make me — and occasionally the other chatter — look better/smarter than is the case.
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