Shortcuts of Culture

I asked allourapus for permission to blog on a difficult moment that came up at the party in Syracuse a couple of weeks ago.

A great swirling pit of marginally drunken hilarity opened up on Saturday night that showed a divide between the people who are almost intravenously swallowing cultural markers and deconstructions of those markers and those who are leading less wiredly hip lives.

Note to allourapus: The majority of the following is hidden behind the link below. This is called an "LJ cut" and is used when you make long posts or upload a lot of pictures so that you don't fill your friends' friends pages with huge reams of text or image. Click on the following link to read the whole post.

( Discourse on wired lives and the nature of love. )

It is hard to know how to be yourself and at the same time how to take care of everyone around you. I don't have all the answers.

Meme Glory

qwantz: you are responsible for the birth of a meme. It has already come back to my friends page via other sources and it has already been spuriously credited to other creators who had merely posted examples in their blogs. Example I liked from said other creator:

Bohemian Rhapsody.

If this appears somewhere in your 24 pages of comments, I do not know. Have you gotten any work done this week at all?

PSA

Attention: Internets

You do not need to designate something as "Not Work Safe" IF IT IS JUST FUCKING TEXT!!

"Say, Verbena, was that text I saw on your screen there as I wandered by? I'm so reporting you."

Monster Mash

While I'm linking to amazing stuff and talking about Internet cross-connectivity, Mark has some brilliant mash-up   comics, mixing the saccharine stylings of Cathy with the pungent short stories of Takako Takahashi.

Record number of posts today. Aren't you all thrilled?