Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Tuesday, April 01, 2003 The Pitch: It's like DOA meets The Truman Show! As all the web-excerpts might suggest, it's not particulary busy here: groovy coworker just went upstairs to scan an eighty page document, and I've just been twiddling my thumbs, lurking on the artificially resuscitated Warren Ellis Forum and watching everyone spout off (for the twelve hours the forum's open). A lot of these people are happy to be posting in that place again, you can tell, and it's kind of nice to watch.Reminds me of that creepy scientific paper that popped up on the Internet a while back, about how they tested people who watched sitcoms (I believe Friends) and afterwards the people tested as if they had been interacting among friends, instead of sitting there watching people interact (and, to make it more depressing, watching people paid to pretend to be friends interact). I'm not sure what the point of the study was (other than to make me cry). I think there was something there about our inability to totally parse what's real and what's not, and maybe also something potentially healing in having people watch happy television (ignore the brutal banality angle). In this way, I've been in a fairly good mood watching people who I don't know, except through some lurking months and months ago, once again take up something once very very important to them. (Okay, actually, I know about five of them). Maybe it says something good, not bad, about human nature that I can be happy just by watching people chat and flirt and post silly photoshopped images with which they cracked themselves up a year ago. Or maybe it's just too damn quiet at work... posted by Jeff Lester | 11:51 AM | |
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