Memories, light the corners of my mind, misty watercolor memories of the way we were. I was, back in the day, on Delphi typing out commands on a pizza-box Mac, endlessly reading posts by all sorts of ladies, gents, geeks and freaks. Return once more, as Google has fully integrated the past 20 years of Usenet archives into Google Groups, which now offers access to more than 700 million messages dating back to 1981. This is by far the most complete collection of Usenet articles ever assembled and a fascinating first-hand historical account. May 11. 1981, Oldest Usenet article in the Google Groups Archive, An announcement by Tim Berners-Lee on what the WWW would become, even the first mention of Madonna. If you come across other noteworthy posts while searching the archive, please forward them to Google at usenet-timeline@google.com. AND while we are on the topic of 'Archives'. File 'Derek's Big Web Site of Wal-Mart Purchase Receipts' under ephemera, Sorry Derek but I don't see the Smithsonian knocking down your door any time soon, asking for your collection....but you never know....
12:42 PM :
Friday, January 11, 2002
Metropolis Magazine's event/space/shape slumming an Urban Journal reports on those design ideas that are fascinating, fabulous, gritty and confounding. Preview Rem Koolhaas' Prada store in New York.
Let me draw my Smoking Gun, hot as a pistol whipping, eavesdropping on celebrities embarrassingly funny public documents. Artist's contracts spell out pampered stars backstage requirements, like white flowers and plastic bendy straws. Arrest records, wedding registry lists and courtroom exploits. Why are we so fascinated by celebrity?
You can relive the best 10 minutes of your life once every hour. Brain candy drug Ecstasy just might become prescription euphoria as new research hopes to bring the drug/medicine back to the couch.
10:24 PM :
Thursday, January 10, 2002
I found NOT writing to be to my satisfaction, it was very enjoyable to push myself away from the computer, it was like recess, lunchtime, the time before last-call when you're woozy and sick but need another shot of 'Cuervo Gold', or when 'Destiny's Child' sings and you projectile vomit all over the DJ. Shoot your shot you say, shiitttt Mutha-Fuckaaa, wipe your mouth and take off, refreshed. it was THAT sort of break. My 'WELL' is filled and I can return to building the world's largest 'Diner Slang' dictionary ever created. Todays additions include 'Two chicks on a raft, wreck em'. That's lingo for 'scrambled eggs and toast.' Back at the counter, 'I'll take a large order of Coca-cola and licorice....
A young man awakens with a migraine headache, his hair is very 'Eraserhead'. He hears a song trailing up through the cold air return. He instantly recognizes it as the old Waitresses song and Patti Donahue singing: 'Needed new posters, so I bought em, I know the cost of stamps now, the thirty-first is when I pay the phone bill, I told them I didn't even know anybody in Toronto.' It is here he blanks out in a fit of 'Eighties' Amnesia. Quick edit, scene two, 'Floyd's Barber Shop', Main Street, Anytown, U.S.A. The buzzing of hair clippers is almost deafening, as the young man from the earlier scene waits his turn in the chair. A commercial for 'That 80s Show' blasts out of the 1970's oak veneer Zenith console television set. Several confused barbers stop 'barbering' look up puzzled. Joe, the youngster of the bunch speaks, 'Do you think that show will be as good as we think it should be?' Uncle Patches, the old timer exclaims, 'No Joe, I'm afraid it can never match the mythology you've already created.' The young man ponders what 'mythology' he is talking about, what 'mythology' is being created today. Scene three, a young man throws away his Camcorder, and cancels cable television.
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