Friday, March 9, 2007
What my dreams are like
I can't embed this. Check it out. CHECK IT OUT. Skip the part where the woman who isn't famous is talking and imagine me riding a huge version of my childhood dog with a beautiful island girl. The end won't disappoint.
Re: LOL so true
This is a response to the post directly below it.
1) I'm telling that joke to kick off Liz's eulogy.
2) I wonder: if we had given them Facebook in 1906, and presented it as a solution to the anonymity and isolation problems created by the telephone, would they have sighed relief or become more anxious?
3) A related anecdote:
When I was in college, I went to a media studies conference and saw a grad student read a paper on how cable news screens were corrupting news(journalism? information?) by showing viewers so much information at one time that it was impossible to properly focus on any one story. She drew a diagram of the Headline News set-up and pointed at what she drew to represent the anchor's head, the over the shoulder image, and the news ticker below the anchor's face, over and over really quickly to show us how our eyes/minds were working when we watched that kind of show. Afterwards, two dude classmates of hers commented "Walter Benjamin said the same thing about newspapers." And their faces were like "we are sooo close to kind of fake laughing out loud right now. That's how stupid your paper is."
I wanted in on the fun, so I quickly started pretending like I could have started fake laughing at any moment. Others in the audience joined us. I thought we were doing this because we had all read newspapers and found it actually works out pretty well, so, like how Benjamin, in retrospect, sounds irrationally scared of newspapers, the presenter sounded irrationally scared of cable news which we all watch and don't really have that hard a time processing.
I just finally looked up that Benjamin essay (Storytelling), read several paragraphs of it online, and re-assessed that situation. Now I'm pretty sure the dudes we were laughing like "No shit, you idiot bitch. Benjamin already wrote about this problem, and in the exact same way. As fellow grad students this is hilarious to us because it means you have failed miserably in your research and have proven us to be the superior minds we always knew we were. Cable news is soooo confusing to us. I wouldn't even look at a newspaper for fear of complete disorientation. This is common knowledge."
1) I'm telling that joke to kick off Liz's eulogy.
2) I wonder: if we had given them Facebook in 1906, and presented it as a solution to the anonymity and isolation problems created by the telephone, would they have sighed relief or become more anxious?
3) A related anecdote:
When I was in college, I went to a media studies conference and saw a grad student read a paper on how cable news screens were corrupting news(journalism? information?) by showing viewers so much information at one time that it was impossible to properly focus on any one story. She drew a diagram of the Headline News set-up and pointed at what she drew to represent the anchor's head, the over the shoulder image, and the news ticker below the anchor's face, over and over really quickly to show us how our eyes/minds were working when we watched that kind of show. Afterwards, two dude classmates of hers commented "Walter Benjamin said the same thing about newspapers." And their faces were like "we are sooo close to kind of fake laughing out loud right now. That's how stupid your paper is."
I wanted in on the fun, so I quickly started pretending like I could have started fake laughing at any moment. Others in the audience joined us. I thought we were doing this because we had all read newspapers and found it actually works out pretty well, so, like how Benjamin, in retrospect, sounds irrationally scared of newspapers, the presenter sounded irrationally scared of cable news which we all watch and don't really have that hard a time processing.
I just finally looked up that Benjamin essay (Storytelling), read several paragraphs of it online, and re-assessed that situation. Now I'm pretty sure the dudes we were laughing like "No shit, you idiot bitch. Benjamin already wrote about this problem, and in the exact same way. As fellow grad students this is hilarious to us because it means you have failed miserably in your research and have proven us to be the superior minds we always knew we were. Cable news is soooo confusing to us. I wouldn't even look at a newspaper for fear of complete disorientation. This is common knowledge."
Thursday, March 8, 2007
LOL So True
This is from an article in Slate about an old person who joins Facebook:
People with telephones will marry anyone.
I <3 olden times so much.
But the anxiety older people feel about social-networking sites stripping away the privacy of the younger generation and leaving them vulnerable to whoever is on the other end of the equipment is nothing novel...Carolyn Marvin writes that the same concerns were raised by the original social-networking instrument, the telephone. Marvin recounts a telephone joke from 1906. A woman answers the phone and is asked by a suitor if she'll marry him. "Of course I'll marry you!" she replies, then adds, "Who is calling, please?"
People with telephones will marry anyone.
I <3 olden times so much.
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Can you get syphilis from sharing a bottle of talent?
Every day I walk past the guy selling Spare Change who basically orders me to smile, and I do it, because I’m weak. But today at the gym I saw an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch where Sabrina switches identities with a sassy female rapper, Baby K2K, and learns that even white people can stand up for themselves. On my way back I was about to pass that guy, and I crossed the street.
The first two years of that show I thought Salem was just a creepy looking real cat, and to this moment I remember when my friend was like, “no, idiot, it’s a puppet.” I grew up a little bit that day. Thinking back, it’s weird that I didn’t know how to recognize puppets until my teens.
The first two years of that show I thought Salem was just a creepy looking real cat, and to this moment I remember when my friend was like, “no, idiot, it’s a puppet.” I grew up a little bit that day. Thinking back, it’s weird that I didn’t know how to recognize puppets until my teens.
Monday, March 5, 2007
Political Humor
Political humor is just like regular humor, only more intelligent. Here's an old political joke I love:
Q: What did one young Republican say to the other young Republican?
A: I think it's time we started examining our father issues.
another:
Q: What did Bill Clinton say to his new intern?
A: I'm happy you're working with me to solve the world AIDS crisis.
Or how about a political cartoon?
"Doo-di-doo. Just solvin' the world AIDS crisis :)>"
Q: What did one young Republican say to the other young Republican?
A: I think it's time we started examining our father issues.
another:
Q: What did Bill Clinton say to his new intern?
A: I'm happy you're working with me to solve the world AIDS crisis.
Or how about a political cartoon?
Barack Obama EXCLUSIVE
The crack staff at MC has done it again. The following is some exclusive video footage of a recent meeting Sen. Obama held with campaign strategy staffers:
I am loving this guy.
I am loving this guy.
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