So one thing that I have been thinking about lately is how much I dislike some of the words/concepts that have been made popular on the internet and have or have not drifted into speech patterns, since what I do is make lists here I think this is how I will convey them
1) excessive exclamation points and writing in allcaps–have noticed this a lot lately coming from uh facebook acquaintances, also I am super guilty of the former (not the latter) myself–I understand that text doesn’t allow for the registering of many emotions (duh hence emoticons) but I wonder what allcaps is becoming shorthand for and whether people will begin screaming or whatever instead of talking soon
2) Fail: man I hate this one! so lazy!
3) any kind of “nerd”. Tons of boring slate and slate-like articles have been written about the cultural resurgence of the term “nerd” but really, most of the time someone calling themselves a “history nerd” “grammar nerd” etc. makes me bananas–this is possibly because I am a “real” “history nerd” (whatever that means) and have problems with people being into like funfacts with no context (did you know General Ambrose Burnside invented sideburns? man I love history!!) . Is it that “nerd” implies being into any kind of specified knowledge and thus as a category points to our anti-intellectual tradition in and of itself? Also, 99.99% of the people who self-identify as “nerds” are not smart.
Okay, that was all not really thought through or well-articulated but whatever, I am going to let it stand, maybe just so I can come back to it sometime and make fun of my own pettiness.
In other news, I recently spent some time in Park Slope and now really want to be a rich urban adult, although Park Slope people continue to be some of the worst people around. But hey, the food is good and the brownstones are nice! Since January I have been leading a kind of awesome nomadic existence and with several other trips imminent I am wondering how long I can sustain myself on this kind of lifestyle–one thing for sure is that I want/need a better suitcase!
