car·pet·bag·ger : Pronunciation: -"ba-g&r . Function: noun. Etymology: from their carrying all their belongings in carpetbags - car·pet·bag·gery

: OUTSIDER; especially : a nonresident or new resident who meddles in politics (merriam webster online)

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Cyberspace

This is one of the dresses that I have recently made. Check out more on www.inkblotkelly.etsy.com I've been talking a lot with people who are physically present in the same space as me, about the craziness that is cyber relations. How, people meet online and these friendships, translate into hang out in reality(not virtual) friends, to bar dates, jobs, and sublets. the down side to this is that internet rejections burn ya just as much as to your face ones. Still we learn on places like facebook that pictures are omnipotent. Thus even old fashioned phone calls are pushed farther to the back of the bus- they start to feel too personal,"intimate" if you will, when they break the silence of pictures and text(messaging). unless they're the types of phone calls that proceed as follows: 'Press 1 to make a new booking, press 2 to make changes on an already existing booking, Press 3 to hear these options again, press 4 to go back to the main menu. Do not hang up and call again, it will not increase your wait time.' Is it variable overload or celebration worthy modernity?

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