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The land of magical thinking forsakes thought for desire, a flatter sense.
Days I want to think I drive the car; only at construction sites c...
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Saturday, February 16, 2008
Blogito Ergo Dum
What - about 100K+ new blogs per day? Do the math - w/in the decade, no one will do anything but post and surf and read blogs. They say the Holocene Epoch is over and this is the Anthropocene, but in between is the Blogocene (not to be confused with the Poetrycene, which is already experiencing a massive extinction). Does anybody really like blogs? Or does everybody feel they have to have them to keep their name before the phantom public? Or to let all one's friends know all the things that you'd tell them if you picked up the phone. As Frank O'Hara points out, instead of writing a poem, you could just as easily be writing a blog. So why not!
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I hate phones. I actually think that blogging is more personal at times, because you don't have to worry about someone immediately responding to you, or making the best of your "cellular minutes". Then, people can choose to be intimate with you. I seek to impose on no one.
Ok, that's dramatic. I do feel like if I do not blog I do not exist in some part of the world, even though very few people read my blog.
I hate phones, too, begorrah! Those who can't write, talk.
A blog proves you exist - and I read yours, Rob, so you exist PLUS.
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