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[lagilman]

I am sick and may die. So I pass along the work of another, to keep you entertained.


*Howl Twitter* (with abject apologies to Allen Ginsberg)

I saw the best posters of my generation destroyed by politics,
commenting hysterical naked,
scrolling themselves through the n-word threads at dawn looking for
a snarky fix,
trucker-hatted hipsters burning for the cheapest DSL
connection to the bitwise dynamo in the datastream of night,
who pizza and tater-tots and poopsocking and high sat up typing in
the supernatural whiteness of rented condos surfing across the tubes
of internets contemplating porn,
who bared their breasts on MySpace under fake names and saw
Mohammedan bombers threatening in video streams illuminated,
who played through universities with radiant eyes
hallucinating Second Life and Warcraft tragedy among the scholars of
war,
who were banned from the websites for crazy & posting batshitinsane
on the Windows™ of the Bill,
who farted in unshaven rooms in underwear,
tossing their tissues in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror on
CNN...

From stavrostthewonderchicken on
http://emptybottle.org/glass/2007/03/not_a_howl_a_twitter.php


(link courtesy, as usual, of Walter Jon Williams. keep him off the internet -- buy his books!)

Comments

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

Howl was a lesson in reader-response theory. I first read it when I was 19 and hated it. I thought it was uselessly profane and downright stupid. Then I read it again when I was 24, and I thought it was the most profound piece of literature that I had ever read. Which just goes to show you that if at first you don't like a book, try it again when you are at a different place in your life.

[girasole.livejournal.com]

I did send that link to my whole family.

Back on the three-day weekend in February, I and my household watched the entire extended-edition LotR trilogy in one day, from ten in the morning until midnight, with breaks for meals.

It was glorious.