the downside of social networking
Today I finally changed my relationship status to “single” on Facebook, which I have been dreading since the breakup. I’ve heard the stories about what happens to the mini feed. On CNN they even covered a story about a college girl who didn’t know she had been broken up with until she saw it on facebook. The whole thing is just awful and may be a reason why people stay in relationships longer than they are suited too, to avoid a website declaring your singledom.
I did it anyway. When I got back to my profile, I saw, to my horror, the mini-feed with “Jessica is single” and a little broken heart next to it. I would have preferred “another one bites the dust” or “another step toward twenty cats.”
And I think they could have thought of something more original than the broken heart. Like a little ugly woman with a leg missing or a chair on fire or an empty bottle of bourbon or a single chopstick trying to spear a piece of sushi or a lonely meatball rolling off a mountain.
Now those would be more accurate. So it goes.
josh keyes
Josh Keyes is my new New York style pizza. And anyone who knows me knows I would never ever make this statement without meaning it.
He does “… drawings and paintings that depict animals isolated in fragments of their natural environment, overrun with shards of man-made artifice and debris.”
Surreal, a little unnerving, and at times very tender. Lots of good stuff to see in here.
