Strictly Personal

Does everything newsworthy online have to be cool. Outside of the political blogosphere, I find everything passed around in some way, shape or form is supposedly cool. It could be cruelly cool, awfully cool, plain cool, sexy cool or geeky cool. Everybody is trying to make up for their cheesy high school days. Proving they have something to say by linking to cool things.

All the serious works are almost never appreciated. If they are, they are ingested in short amounts or in small groups. This is especially true with films. Short comedies play best online whether it be virals, fiction, non-fiction. It is king of the hill. Serious films are like party poopers. Raining on the parade.

I have tried to link to serious stuff on Tickle but only after I have already linked to some 27th- Rather cool video. All my traffic points to the cool stuff. This worries me about Squiggle. I have too many serious ideas. I wonder if they will be appreciated.

August 27th - I resume writing

What is happening currently is a great example, everyone is talking about planet Pluto being removed from our planetary system. Every blogger has an angle. But it means nothing. It is geeky enough where everyone can participate. Even someone like me who failed science can join in. I know Pluto is the last planet and I can pretend that it bothers me. Even in jest, I look somewhat hip because I am concerned about a planet. Who gives a fuck? People love to add shit in between them and anything truly newsworthy.

Now mind you, I exaggerate. People are mostly making a big deal about something that is not a big deal and thus arriving at the joke. But I stopped laughing after seeing the first outraged headline. The rest was “enough already!” It is like lawyers creating lingo only they can decipher or enjoy. This pseudo-geek culture is now creating its own lingo. Pluto is a blogger’s wink to other bloggers that he is getting the joke and he will modify it every so slightly to show individuality. At least with lawyers, you assume they create lingo to create shortcuts in everyday. What are pseudo-geeks doing it for? Being cool, now that’s lame.

Am I done? We will see.