vulgar for all the wrong reasons
So, let's explain. Reasons not to blog:
1. Once you realize you're never going to be that online wunderkind, well what's left? The way I see it, life has several paths. The most probable? Forgettable scientist. The least probable? A Tom Wolfer. So you see, you can never win with that game.
2. Spiels are the way we live. Whether you realize it or not, your daily incidents get packaged into stories that you accidentally retell to the same people. Now the blog is inherently contradictory to that process. I like to think of the blog as a toilet bowl plunger to spiels that really have done their time. Problem was, I was high and dry for like a week -- and whatever juicy morsel of bullshit that I enjoyed pondering (why weren't we told about bambi's dad?, if you discovered a dollar bill with the date '2010' on it, would you consider that someone came back from the future?), well it went straight to the blog. That made for a real shoddy performance at my daily biology lunches -- I was shooting blanks like dirk diggler post-coke.
3. Coolness issues surrounding a blog that gets discussed. I'm only 22, still allowed to have coolness issues.
4. Some might say she discovered it late, but the day my mother discovered google, it was a real kick in the pants. Had to come up with all sorts of crazy new flavors of subtlety -- gets taxing.
5. You kind of get tired calling everyone boring after a while. I used to cling to the phrase, 'Better to be vulgar than to be boring. middle class, or dull.' Well this graduate student has slowly accepted his fate as boring, poor, dull, and vulgar for all the wrong reasons.
Even so, it's back. Life is slowly getting back to NPR, cereal, and research. So, there's no chance in hell you're reading or checking this website anymore, but you might read this in the next month someday when you're bored at work. And so there you are, it's on.
1. Once you realize you're never going to be that online wunderkind, well what's left? The way I see it, life has several paths. The most probable? Forgettable scientist. The least probable? A Tom Wolfer. So you see, you can never win with that game.
2. Spiels are the way we live. Whether you realize it or not, your daily incidents get packaged into stories that you accidentally retell to the same people. Now the blog is inherently contradictory to that process. I like to think of the blog as a toilet bowl plunger to spiels that really have done their time. Problem was, I was high and dry for like a week -- and whatever juicy morsel of bullshit that I enjoyed pondering (why weren't we told about bambi's dad?, if you discovered a dollar bill with the date '2010' on it, would you consider that someone came back from the future?), well it went straight to the blog. That made for a real shoddy performance at my daily biology lunches -- I was shooting blanks like dirk diggler post-coke.
3. Coolness issues surrounding a blog that gets discussed. I'm only 22, still allowed to have coolness issues.
4. Some might say she discovered it late, but the day my mother discovered google, it was a real kick in the pants. Had to come up with all sorts of crazy new flavors of subtlety -- gets taxing.
5. You kind of get tired calling everyone boring after a while. I used to cling to the phrase, 'Better to be vulgar than to be boring. middle class, or dull.' Well this graduate student has slowly accepted his fate as boring, poor, dull, and vulgar for all the wrong reasons.
Even so, it's back. Life is slowly getting back to NPR, cereal, and research. So, there's no chance in hell you're reading or checking this website anymore, but you might read this in the next month someday when you're bored at work. And so there you are, it's on.
posted by devdoot majumdar at 4:22 PM
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