Eccentric Flower:199807/finding the web everywhere
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seven july ninety eight eleven a m finding the web everywhere This actually happened yesterday evening, but after returning home from last night's Cinematic Event (see previous postcard), I was too tired to write about it. There is an area of concrete outside the Harvard subway station's main exit. It has nice places to perch and do nothing, and is therefore perpetually full of Disaffected Urban Youth of various stripes. We call it the "kidpit" and it's the usual rendezvous point. While waiting for someone to emerge from the bowels of the earth, I saw a young man wearing a T-shirt with block lettering on the front saying "MTV IS LYING TO YOU." On the back, partially obscured by his hair, was what was obviously the beginning of a web URL. I waited patiently until he moved enough that I could copy the whole thing down in the margin of the magazine I was reading: It's a band - as a moment's thought would have told me - although the copy on the first page is really entertaining and worth reading. More importantly, the irony isn't lost on me that we have reached a stage where not only is there an URL for everything, but they get printed on T-shirts. David Simpson, a cartoonist I discovered recently, has a cartoon which I am reminded of at this juncture: Ozy & Millie #13 from Jan 1998 By the by, the URL used in the strip actually exists. Type it in and see. © columbine |
