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Thursday, 17 January 2008 08:43 amThe maddened billboard poet of the Village Voice is back! Yesterday's headline:
DOP LORRY DROPS OOM!
Note the characteristic short, punchy words, the mixture of English and Afrikaans for max colloquial effect, and the neat use of assonance. As usual, it's also suggestive and tantalising rather than informative about the actual story, which is probably a lot less interesting than its headline.
In other news, Facebook wants your soul! According to The Guardian, at any rate. Not only are freely handing over your intimate details to the marketing droids, you're handing them over to fascist, neoconservative marketing droids. I do rather take issue with the tone of the article, which has that peculiarly retro note of "online communication cannot possibly be real, computers will doom us all!", but the background details on the politics of the founders are interesting.
New Bowie album. 60s rock covers. Happy.
DOP LORRY DROPS OOM!
Note the characteristic short, punchy words, the mixture of English and Afrikaans for max colloquial effect, and the neat use of assonance. As usual, it's also suggestive and tantalising rather than informative about the actual story, which is probably a lot less interesting than its headline.
In other news, Facebook wants your soul! According to The Guardian, at any rate. Not only are freely handing over your intimate details to the marketing droids, you're handing them over to fascist, neoconservative marketing droids. I do rather take issue with the tone of the article, which has that peculiarly retro note of "online communication cannot possibly be real, computers will doom us all!", but the background details on the politics of the founders are interesting.
New Bowie album. 60s rock covers. Happy.
