shapes of things

[freckles_and_doubt]

The 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.

Comments

[nimnod.livejournal.com]

Hmm, i must read the Failbook article. I fear it will be full of tripe, however, so at the moment I'm just letting the tab sit there unread, enjoying the fact that, however potentially biased and misguided, as least someone out there hates it as much as I do.

[(Anonymous)]

I've heard tell of a little column piece in the Sunday Times (or similar) - think Krisjan Lemmer - with some outrageous headline. "17 horses found in chimney" or something. The text read: "Unfortunately the story to support the above headline has not yet arrived in this office."

[bronchitikat.livejournal.com]

So the guy with the philosophy behind it all is called Thief? Interesting.

It's the proliferation of American college kid attitudes that gets me. That & the fact that you can't really alter anything you've put up. Caution comes with years. Kids will post anything, & regret it later.

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

That Facebook thing is very interesting. The politics, philosophies and connections of the Board are thought provoking.

Still not on Facebook ... no one has yet convinced me of its worth, "all the cool kids are doing it" notwithstanding.