Photo: "Mr. Chips"

Photograph of "Mr. Chips"

This picture was a demonstration of how instantaneous mass communication can be. Taken from my iPhone, the photo is instantly uploaded to the web. Once I take the picture on my phone I can send it to the cloud and it's available anywhere from a device with Internet access. Welcome to the first decade of the twenty-first century.

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Journal & Rant: Consigned (with a Nod to Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)

In this rant, I complain about the world wide web.

Maggie: I've become hard and frantic and cruel.

As my mother tells me, annoyed, I am consigned to forever transcribe the mendacious events of a life through the world wide web. I am afraid the web is nothing more than a pseudo-clandestine joyride for the false pleasures of an ego (with the perilous feeling Big Brother is watching). I finally figured out posting shit on the Internet: simply write shit with as many popular tags as possible: Miley Cyrus; Where the Wild Things Are; Tim Burton; sex; fleshlights. That should summon a crowd. By the way: I despise fishbowls.

Works Cited: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Directed by Richard Brooks, performances by Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, and Shirley Jones, 20th Century Fox, 1958.

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