What are you wearing today?

[dontbecruel]

You can hardly even form a worthwhile thought in 140 characters.

Speak for yourself:

THIS IS JUST TO SAY

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

[AKA*NYC]

that lazy but famous poem doesn't suffice in defense of modern mind rot

[Mail-Moth]

Same thoughts here. Hunger for constant information appears to me as a poor remedy to a deep, global boredom.

[Faust]

I would imagine DBC was being sarcastic. In any case - Hobo, if you think that helps the store, no reason not to do it.

[dontbecruel]

that lazy but famous poem doesn't suffice in defense of modern mind rot

Since when were poems expected to work hard?

I was not defending the modern mind (whose indolence I am intimately acquainted with) but illustrating the absurdity of quantifying thoughts in characters.

[edit] That last sentence would fit nicely in a tweet by the way.

[AKA*NYC]

I would imagine DBC was being sarcastic. In any case - Hobo, if you think that helps the store, no reason not to do it.

if that's the case

[Faust]

Since when were poems expected to work hard?

I was not defending the modern mind (whose indolence I am intimately acquainted with) but illustrating the absurdity of quantifying thoughts in characters.

[edit] That last sentence would fit nicely in a tweet by the way.

Since the time of high modernism.

[Fuuma]

Hobo, no offense, but I think tweeter is done by the ADD generation for the ADD generation. I really don't see the point. Another waste of time, another excuse to look at your iphone. You can hardly even form a worthwhile thought in 140 characters.

Here is my favorite sketch about it - not sure if viewable outside the states.

This was funny too. Of course right next to the article is an icon so you can tweet it.

"While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead
I played about the front gate, pulling flowers."

Ok, I see someone already made a poem quip.

[dontbecruel]

Faust, I didn't ask "since when were poetry readers expected to work hard?"

Conversley, Carlos Williams' "post-it note" stanzas above invented the form of the lyric as a practical object, so they could be described as the hardest working poem in the canon.

[DRRRK]

Page 1000 in the WAYWT thread and we are discussing the aspects and excesses of modern life.

Nice discussion, but for a minute:

[Fade to Black]

happy 1000th.

not from today but had to get one in from the vaults for this immortal milestone of vanity -

[Mail-Moth]

Ready to take a walk through the next thousand pages.



(Edited because this accidental "ghost picture" is a lot more fun than the previous one. We're celebrating the 1000th page, after all.

And those are the last days of october. Tribute to Bradbury !)

[snafu]

indeed MM walking through ....

(me on the right friend on the left)



... im gonna look back though

[philip nod]

[Fuuma]

Zboss: who made sexy coat? Cloak?