posted on April 4, 2002 09:02:28 PM new
GLASSGRL, YOU SURE DID. HAHAHHA HEY KIDS RUN OVER TO GLASSGRLS LAST POST. IT'S KINDA LIKE CLASSMATES.COM (CAN I SAY THAT HERE!!! OOPS) BUT EVEN MORE FUN. SEE ALL YOUR OLD CLASSMATES.IT'S GREAT. YOU WILL SEE YOURSELF RIGHT OFF THE BAT. DON'T KNOW HOW THEY DO IT BUT THEY DO! JUST SIGN UP. THREE STEP PROCESS. EASY A PIE.
posted on April 4, 2002 09:35:26 PM new
THAT'S ME!!!!!!!! THE CAR POOL DUMMY. FOLKS RUN OVER THEIR IF YA WANT TA SEE WHAT I LOOKED LIKE IN GRADE SCHOOL. HOW THEY GOT THAT PICTURE IS BEYOND ME. THAT IS JAUST THE BEST SITE.
posted on April 4, 2002 10:17:42 PM new
I Think you HAVE to Be MORE "Controversial" Jack. That way Like the other Historically Loooong Threads, someone will decide to "Take you on" in a war of words (or threads). But good luck, I think this Thread will grow for awhile.
posted on April 4, 2002 10:20:14 PM new"FORGING CULTURE!" By Justin Hall
April 27, 1995
Don't wait for anyone to recognize yourtalent; do what you love, and do it online.
I grew up a voracious reader. As I read, I burned to be writer. But I sought approval before I created. I didn't realize that to be a writer, I just had to write. Somehow, I thought an agent and a book publisher came first. A contract with Time magazine, sanction from the big boys. I thought that everyone who had anything to say was published, simply because I'd never been told otherwise.
When I was 19, I began publishing on the web. Because it was fun, because I could, because I wanted to. I didn't have permission from anyone, I wasn't trying to carve myself a digital niche. A year later, I find guys with suits and too much money asking me about "content providing" and "youth culture" - like I've found the philosopher's stone of netgeist.
What are you when you compose your e-mail? your web page? your own graphics?
You too are a digital artist! You are among the digital elite!
Publish yourself. Publish your friends. Digital culture sucks when everyone's hanging around looking for the latest pop culture trend before it hits, so they can put their name on it, invest, and cash in. Forget it - invest in yourself. Tell stories, and worry about the next trend when you're on the toilet.
Good stories, good art - these make good web pages. Not money, not hot systems, not big hired guns. People are naturally funny. Give them a chance to be so, and they will.
Go out into your neighborhood and do a video documentary! Stage a play on a streetcorner! Strike up a conversation! Read a poem on a train!
Then, write about it on your web page.
Remember the first time you had sex? How strange that was?
Write about it. Put it online.
Remember the first time you were dumped? How shitty that was?
Write about it. Put it online.
I'd sooner read that than Barry Diller's five means of media ascension.
Culture doesn't come from Warner Brothers and Sony. Culture is that woman friend of yours who tells the most outrageous stories.
Culture doesn't cost big bucks, and hang in a gallery of modern art. Culture is your friend who likes to draw.
alt.sex.stories is a popular newsgroup - because people like reading stories about other people's sex. Tell your own, and readers will come.
People responding to your work is the highest form of praise. You can get that on the net for $20 a month - you don't need a donation from Silicon Graphics.
If you don't write, or create something, you should. It's human. After a while, getting by ain't #*!@.
If you write, or create something, please share.
How will you be paid? I'll send you a story in return.
This is culture people - unbound, unabridged, unedited, unpackaged, unfiltered. This is people culture - fresh, alive, un-self-conscious, hype-free.
Beware anything that tells you what it is. That is marketing.
Things should just be. Critics can talk about them. If you are talking about what you are doing, you aren't doing it.
Let's not pay other people to tell us what's the best we can do. Do it, and share. We'll make a culture to be celebrated.
why the web?
The web is the first semi-permanent unlimited world wide exhibition space. Think of it as a never-ending world's fair, where anyone can set up a booth, and you don't have to be there to see it.
The web is an opportunity to make good our fifteen megabytes of fame. Because web pages encompass any existing media, you can forge your site in your own image. You can be unique, because there are no expectations. Most people set up personal home pages out of nothing other than love and curiosity.
This is what is healthy and wonderful about the web. When you discover the "model train home page," and it's not set up by Lionel, you know it is a labour of love. Some gal who loves those trains put up a page with a picture of her track, her and her son playing with the trains, and a list of designer trains she's created.
What does she get out of that effort? Folks who are interested see what she is doing, and she hears from people who share her passion for trains. Perhaps another train enthusiast will be inspired to set up their own page, and soon there will be a online community of train enthusiasts.
When you start talking about cancer, in addition to trains, the possibilities for enhancing our daily lives become apparent.
Why put details about your personal life online?
What would you rather read? A pamphlet? Or a heartfelt tale, or personal perspective? The web will reflect humanity if we put our lives online.
Putting our lives online does not mean leading our lives online, it is about utilizing unprecedented sharing. We interact in the real world, and we use cyberspace to collaborate and share and conjure new possibilities.
Do we want to see ourselves, joys and sorrows, reflected in cyberspace, or do we want an easier mall? Not that both won't exist, but when you sit down to craft your page, take into account which you'd rather see.
Why would anyone care about my life/hobbies/stories?
Writing it down and putting it up is the large part of the catharsis: crafting art, making something transcendent out of everyday existence. That people would read it is flattery. They will, because people are naturally curious.
Because we are lonely. We need more friends, or sympathetic ears, people who will listen to our stories, and tell us their own, or tell us they were moved. We like to read other people's stories because they help us affirm our own - we are not alone out there.
Since people can't see you, prejudice is harder to come by. The anonymity of cyberspace can free you from shame; the possibility of embarrassment or harassment is lessened when the people sharing your stories aren't there to spit in your face. Most people won't take the time to deliver negative comments. They wouldn't bother visiting your site if they weren't somehow interested.
Would you rather they read your resume, or your autobiography?
I'll tell you which I would prefer!
humanizing the highway
The web is the prototype for how people will relate by computer in the next century, and beyond. There may not be web pages in 2010, but there will be an Internet, in one form or another.
Right now, the web offers a bridge between that old media world of broadcast text and images, and the new world of video virtual reality interconnectedness.
It is critical that folks get on there and make the web reflect human culture, relationships, community.
The Networks may be planning a big Internet video launch of all of their programming next year, but if it is as banal as most of television, I will be right back on the web. Ultimately, people are responsible for the production of those shows, and those stories. With the web, you are offered the chance to directly produce your own material. The technology makes it possible to look as slick as the professionals, so the playing field is leveled. What is important is the story, the intention. Is your heart in it? If it is, it will show, and it will show up the people making pages to make a buck.
People worry about government censorship. It is easy to censor pornography collections, because you can justify it - sex out of context can be a dangerous thing. But if the sex is part of a larger story, love, erotica, relationships - a life story, then the job of the censors is compounded, difficult. If you want to see sex online, grassroots it. Tell small-scale sexual stories. Publish pictures of you and your partner posing naked together. Making a business out of it is what draws attention to it.
The more widespread and grassroots the Internet, the more difficult it will be to dominate and control it. You can contribute directly to the humanizing of the wires by telling your story, adding your persona to the unaffiliated.
posted on April 4, 2002 10:33:38 PM new
You know how it is, RawB... Jack starts this whole magilla about having the longest thread so it occurs to me that it oughtta have nothing but the longest posts to make it unique in the genre.
Now this:
June 25, 1745
MY DEAR FRIEND: -
I know of no Medicine fit to diminish the violent natural inclination you mention; and if I did, I think I should not communicate it to you. Marriage is the proper Remedy. It is the most natural State of Man, and therefore the State in which you will find solid Happiness. Your Reason against entering into it at present appears to be not well founded. The Circumstantial Advantages you have in View by Postponing it, are not only uncertain, but they are small in comparison with the Thing itself, the being married and settled. It is the Man and Woman united that makes the complete Being. Separate she wants his force of Body and Strength of Reason; he her Softness, Sensibility and acute Discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the World. A single Man has not nearly the Value he would have in that State of Union. He is an incomplete Animal. He resembles the odd Half of a Pair of Scissors.
If you get a prudent, healthy wife, your Industry in your Profession, with her good Economy, will be a Fortune sufficient.
But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking that Commerce with the Sex is inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice that in your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. This you call a Paradox, and demand my reasons. They are these:
1. Because they have more Knowledge of the world, and their Minds are better stored with Observations; their conversation is more improving, and more lastingly agreeable.
2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Man, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a thousand Services, small and great, and are the most tender and useful of Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an Old Woman who is not a good Woman.
3. Because there is no hazard of children, which irregularly produced may be attended with much inconvenience.
4. Because through more Experience they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your reputation; and regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be inclined to excuse an old Woman, who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his manners by her good Councils, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes.
5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part. The Face first grows lank and Wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old one from a young one. And as in the Dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of Corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal and frequently superior; every Knack being by Practice capable by improvement.
6. Because the sin is less. The Debauching of a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her Life unhappy.
7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young Girl miserable may give you frequent bitter Reflections; none of which can attend making an old Woman happy.
8. 8th & lastly. They are so grateful!!!
Thus much for my Paradox. But still I advise you to marry immediately; being sincerely
posted on April 4, 2002 10:56:16 PM new
HOLD IT!!!!!!!! I AM THE CAPTAIN. WHERE IS MY WHISTLE????????,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,THERE ARE NO RULES. EXCEPT THE NEWLY ADOPTED ALL CAPS RULE. GO READ THE BEGINNING OF THIS AGAIN. HAHAHAHHHAHA. NO ARGUING IS ALLOWED EITHER. CHILDREN! BUT GET AS WILD AS YOU WANT IN THIS SAND BOX. I HAVE FINALLY FIGURED OUT WHERE I AM . RIGHT BACK WHERE I WAS AS A CHILD. IN THE SAND BOX. NOT TO WORRY I'LL DUMP THE WHOLE BUCKET DOWN HIS SHIRT. TAKE MY SAND SHOVEL LIKE THAT! HA!!!!!!!! TA, TA, TA. NOW, NOW, NOW.
[ edited by jackswebb on Apr 4, 2002 10:57 PM ]
posted on April 4, 2002 11:09:41 PM new
IF YOU ARE NOT WEARING A CAP IN THE FIELD YOU WILL LASHED TO THE MAST AND GUNNALED FROM STEM TO STERN. AND WHIPPED WITH A CAT O'NINE TAILS WET NOODLE. BOY DO I GET UPSET WHEN TROOPS ARE OUT OUT OF UNIFORM! PLUS! YOU WILL BE SENT TO BED WITHOUT ANY SUPPER. (GREAT, THAT SLOP SUCKS ANYWAY).
posted on April 4, 2002 11:23:19 PM new
HOW IN THE,,,,,,,,,,,,DO YOU MAKE A PARAGRAPH HERE? I TRIED <P> THIS, IT DON'T WORK. THE LAST THING I WANT TO LOOK LIKE IS SOME KIND OF UNEDUCATED IDIOT. LEAST WAYS I DON'T WANT THE WHOLE WORLD TO KNOW IT. DON'T TELL ANYBODY, PLEASE. THANKS. I SEE NOW, THE LAST COURSE I SHOULD HAVE EVER TAKEN WAS TYPING. LOOK AT THE TROUBLE IT HAS GOTTEN ME INTO. IT'S ALL IN THE TWO FINGER METHOD. HAHAHHAHA. ANDY ROONEY HAS THE SAME TECHNIC. AND SHOOT ,,,,,,,,HE'S ON T.V. ONCE A WEEK. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ HOW DO I MAKE A PARAGRAPH????????????
posted on April 4, 2002 11:31:18 PM new
OH.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,O.K............ARGUE. WHAT THE H..............LET IT ALL HANG OUT. BUT!!!!!!! WE ARE MOVING THIS OUT TO,,,,,,,,,,,,THE BEACH!!!!!!!!!!! YEA!!!!! THE BEACH!!!!!!! THE LIFE GUARDS WILL GO NUTS I AM SURE. THEY WON'T KNOW IF SOMEONE IS DROWNING E'R WHAT. HECK, MAYBE THEY WILL JUST LEAVE TOO. THEN NO ONE WILL BOTHER ANYBODY. SLUG IT OUT. THROW ALL THE SAND YOU WANT. NO RULES,,,,,,,,,CEP'T YA GOTTA WEAR A CAP!!!! NO SUN BURNED FACES. WITHOUT A CAP YOU WILL AGE FASTER.......AND YOU BEAUTY QUEENS DON'T WANT THAT I AM POSITIVE! I AM JUST LOOKING OUT FOR YOUR WELFARE.
posted on April 4, 2002 11:31:51 PM new
SPEAKING OF NUTS
NUTMEG WHITMAN
nutmeg psychosis
nut·meg psy·cho·sis noun
psychiatric disorder from nutmeg poisoning: an acute psychotic breakdown characterized by excitement, thought disorders, agitation, hallucinations, and a sense of impending death, following ingestion of an overdose of nutmeg.
BUT,,,,,,,,,I LIKE IT. HAHAHAHA. 
