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Comment on Just the Way I Like It. by Mandy

Mandy — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:04:44 +0000

I often wonder what my kids will remember about me. I read this, almost losing it, ok, correction, not almost. I have to think real hard on this for my mother, remembering that she was at work or asleep a lot and lay on a guilt trip to myself to work or sleep! I stayed home when they were little and I remember those times, but they don’t.

Thanks for the well-written, beautiful memory!!

Comment on This City is Killing Us (WIP) by Steve Barman

Steve Barman — Sat, 24 May 2008 19:51:24 +0000

a rewrite, just for kicks, by me. :

This city is killing us. I’m certain. Brush the hair out of your eyes in the park. Gaze squarely set on the skyscrapers surrounding us; enveloping us; consuming us. I chuckle and drink sweet tea.

My laptop on the corner of our blanket, playing song after song. Silently we listen to the swells and crashes. I gently hum along for a bar or two. I lay my head in your lap. You watch the taxis drive by, honking and transporting. Pick a blade of grass and tickle your hand. You laugh and lean down to kiss me.

“We should run away. Pack the car with the odds and ends of our life and run away. We could go from town to town and pick up random jobs and make money for the next gas tank. We should run away.”

I’d never heard you so excited without the aid of alcohol; without the aid of cocaine; without my aid. You seem more alive in this moment than I had ever seen you. You look into my eyes and I can feel you waiting for my response. I feel your eagerness to do something, but more importantly, that I be involved in what you wanted to do.

Comment on Do You Follow? by Steve/devolutionary

Steve/devolutionary — Sun, 18 May 2008 17:25:23 +0000

I figured this would be better than tweeting it to you. I’m not sure if you’ve seen this.

I don’t want to grow up song by Tom Waits, covered by The Ramones, art by Daniel Clowes!

Comment on Do You Follow? by Steve/devolutionary

Steve/devolutionary — Sun, 18 May 2008 08:21:19 +0000

I mainly use twitter to keep up with my friends and something to do at work. Although most of my friends are too cheap for text messaging, the ones who aren’t tight asses I’ve become closer to. Typically I add people I know. If other people add me I check them out, if it’s a bot, if they have over a thousand they are following, or they wanted Huckabee for president, i do not follow them.

Comment on Do You Follow? by Mattie

Mattie — Sun, 18 May 2008 04:56:48 +0000

You shouldn’t be so leery of a direct message. I was at first, but it’s not so creepy. I send a lot of more personal links through DM or sometimes, I move a conversation to DM when I feel it may be clogging the twitter update page. When Twitter becomes too much of a messaging service is usually when I DM…or to send some sort of detail about myself I don’t want blasted to the world (like my messenger name or email).

I have spent almost no time finding people to follow. I just keep getting followed by folks. It makes me wonder what their impetus to follow me is.

Comment on Do You Follow? by Logical Extremes

Logical Extremes — Sun, 18 May 2008 04:23:08 +0000

Twitter is a very cool service, and there’s a huge set of services built around it. When it started to get big last year, I was quite skeptical about its utility, but it can become addictive.

I haven’t spent a lot of time finding people to follow. I initially populated my list with professional social media people, but that gets a little dry. Now I try to find real people who want to share real stuff (in 140 characters or less of course), or who have interesting posts. There are so many ways people use it, the etiquettes are still nascent.

I do tend to follow people who follow me first, but filtering out spammy types or people who just don’t have interests meshing with mine. It seems creepy of me to initiate direct messages to people I only just met through Twitter, so I haven’t done much direct. If I know someone, chat or SMS are more natural, but maybe that’s just because I’m a relative Twn00b.

Comment on This Morning by Steve/devolutionary

Steve/devolutionary — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:22:16 +0000

It was either Bunuel or Bukowski who said “only boring people get bored.” but I’m really bored too.

Comment on This Morning by Aeric Winter

Aeric Winter — Sun, 11 May 2008 10:31:42 +0000

A piece of writing reminiscent of Douglas Coupland. I have had many days that felt like that. I think you’ve captured the melody of a generation in these lines.

Comment on Just the Way I Like It. by Aeric Winter

Aeric Winter — Sun, 11 May 2008 10:28:56 +0000

It’s strange how we keep noticing it’s the little things in life that matter, when that is so apparent to us every day.
Thanks for sharing this moment with us, Mattie.

Comment on This Morning by andrew

andrew — Sat, 10 May 2008 23:37:02 +0000

- I think this is a really good and cool piece of writing