Those last two are both from the brief, in fact non-existent, little tome How To Socialize For Those Who Haven’t Thought About It Much, A. Wkward, 2023


If you must establish the contra-position, that you are in fact an invested sports buff, simply claim “If more of you understood the icing rule, we would all be better off!” with enough confidence to keep everyone nodding rather than asking what the hell you mean.


If you want to establish that you really have no idea about sports, nor care, then whenever anything happens in any game you must simply say, “Touchdown! That’s two points, right there!”, and everyone will understand.


Nothing says 70’s movie like a P.E. teacher smoking, except everything else in Carrie. I forgot the opening titles are essentially soft-porn—but no surprise, considering the 70’s, even cinema, was pretty gritty. The real horror? Remove her telekinetic powers and now it’s a Dateline episode.

❡ One last thing on Carrie - thinking that telekinetic power is actually a manifestation of satan’s power is a common mistake, just read the papers! Which makes the smoking gym teacher the real culprit here in my book—perhaps apart from DePalma’s sweaty lens. ← snuck a zinger in!


Y’ever imagine our DNA, just sittin’ around after work, having a little refreshment, maybe chatting, and the same subjects always come up…
“Yeah, it does seem a lot, I mean, just to replicate.”
“I know, and like, why spirals?”


I hate that when one alt-clicks on a search result item to copy the link, but it copies a search-site.action prepended URL to your clipboard. Fuck off. I want a clean plain regular old link, thank you not at all. And this applies to any site, not just the goog. Argh, I say. ARGH!


Well…sure, you can take an umbrella into the shower with you, but…uh…maybe explain again what you mean by dry?


Just Noticing

I’m just noticing that a lot of my ground truth on matters internetty is based on the proposition that the internet is on a continuum with other means of individual creative expression; internet, tv, movies, radio…(skip ahead, brother)…live voice, our bodies. And that it is also this way with tools of individual education, certainly. But (ding!) others may see the thing differently. Perhaps as primarily a token game platform, or a herding mechanism.

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What did Sebastian say? “They’re my friends. I make them.”


Don’t shoot yourself in the foot just to prove them wrong about the gun being loaded.


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