Dear
novalis: You're
cute as hell, but if I click on any more intriguing
random nodes and wind up with one of those damned
Magic cards, I shall have to
fling things at you. (
Why are all the best node titles Magic cards? )
It's
raining, which is apparently unusual for this time of year in
San Francisco. It's not helping me
wake up at any rate. Joined in a
casual carpool and spent the ride over talking with a very well-educated and well-spoken man from
Zambia.
My
boyfriend gave his first official
lecture yesterday.
Rowr!
Intelligence is sexy; combined with
academia it's pretty
irresistible. (Um,
maybe it's just me.)
My favorite relatively new noders include
girlotron,
Whywait? and
Evil Catullus. Thank heavens for them (and whoever I'm forgetting), because
the teenybopper factor has been getting to me laterly. ... OOO, I got
downvoted already. Well, in that case, I'm going to let the teenyboppers have it. FIRST OFF, I don't give a damn how old you are. We have plenty of thoughtful teenage noders. The problem is the really, really
teenage noders (and this includes a number of 20- and 30-year-olds). Do you really think we care how often you get
drunk/
stoned/
laid? Do we really care how totally
trashed you are? Maybe this impresses
your little friends, but nobody with
two brain cells to rub together finds this
admirable in the least. Most of us have already experienced our period of
self-indulgent,
self-destructive stupidity and realized how
lame it was, or were never that stupid
in the first place. Those of us who do
indulge ourselves on various ways mostly either keep it to ourselves or find a way to make it interesting. PEOPLE: A DESCRIPTION OF YOUR LATEST TRIP IS NOT INTERESTING! I read someone's
acid trip on here the other day that was practically word-for-word the same as one I remember from some
1968 science fiction story. Nor is a description of your latest
drunken mauling. It just makes you look like an idiotic
child, and contributes nothing to
Everything. So
grow up and
get a life.
Ahem. I'm better now. Honest.