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Speaking of despair... You know, when I started this I thought I'd just do a couple and make them quick pithy remarks and send it back. Little did I realize that I'd go straight through them without stopping. I admit they're not all gems. They are not even all funny. Every last one of them is sarcastic as hell though, so if you don't have the stomach for that sort of thing, turn back now. I don't know why I did the whole thing, I guess its just this internet thing makes heckling so much easier. Actually a lot of these are rather pointed at the same businesses that you manifesto seems to want to wake up. I am of the view that, for the most part, big rich companies and big rich people got to where they are on the backs of other people who let them and if you think the internet's going to change that, then you need to get away from the computer screen a bit more. I found the self-important optimism in publications in things like Wired more self-serving then anything else. Mostly I was trying to be funny and make someone perhaps think about trying to change human behavior for the better, using anything including the net. If we don't change how we act, this market you speak of will just make us more efficient slaves. Thanks for your time, Rob D ps. We both changed tense quite often in these. So sue us. Rather than sue, I wrote asking permission to print the thing. This came back today: Wow. Yeah. Sure! I wrote this mostly late at night, and I'm going to go through and make sure the 'i's are dotted and 't's are crossed. Please let me know when you put it on the website. Its a pretty cool website too. And I'm saying that in the most non, hell, anti-sarcastic voice. Very cool. Again, Thanks! Rob. I still don't know who Rob is, but here it is, carrying forward the Gluetrain tradition.
Hey, I think I'll start a Weblog on that In the comedy field, you only need a few facts to get you started, and sometimes it helps if they're wrong, Garrison says, in his esssay, "How I Write." I love Garrison, and I love PHC. He used to call himself "America's Tallest Radio Humorist," but I think that distinction belongs to Howard Stern, who, at 6'5", edges Garrison by an inch.
And a tall one for the furry guy by the hydrant
Or just read The Onion, where the Horoscope page tells me "It's never too late to start your life over, but hurry--you have only minutes."
This just in: Truman beats Dewey!
Brent went on to talk about how Game Two might go. Meanwhile, Game Two was over yesterday. And they're running ads on this old crap. Over at CBS Sports Central, the "Favorites" pop-down menu says "Stars Still Shine in Dallas." Also, old audio. In today's reality (I discover over at the ESPN Web site), the New Jersey Devils beat the Stars to take the Stanley cup. Meanwhile, items scroll through the CBS Sports Minute Headlines window:
Next to this, we see Video Highlights of Florida's win over Duke in the NCAA playoffs, back in March. This news is so old it might as well be painted on the walls of caves. I'm thinking this can't be serious. And, of course, it isn't.
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