The boys here are into Yahoo, but I’m all about Google and their never ending vigilance. A few selections from my Google Reader:
1. Why God invented camera phones. Also, something that strikes fear into the heart of every transit rider, except for the pervs: the BART Boner.
2. Meredith from the Office on dieting: ” I used to go straight from work to my neighborhood dive. Not anymore. Now I walk there. I get some good exercise and don’t have to worry about swallowing a half-roll of pennies to fool the breathalyzer.” Speaking of The Office, it looks like you can actually purchase Serenity By Jan. Someone is having a birthday soon and I do love scented candles (hint, hint).
3. Nickstarr: yo, check it out! Last weekend, I got wrapped up in this dude’s drama when he threatened to kill himself and someone on my Twitter friends list tried to save him. He showed up alive the next day. His friend Adamjackson friend-dumped him via Twitter! THIS WEEK, he is being accused of stealing some chick’s iPhone. I eat this shit up, I really do.
4. How embarassing for us: motherfucking CHINA is oferring Sex Ed to Youth!
5. In more sexy news: Melissa Gira tells us it’s the end of the sexpert, and I have to say, her argument is pretty convincing. On a semi-related note, Tracy Clark-Flory writes about a recent rash of sex writer layoffs and more so, what the role of the sex writer is, in our de-sensitized to everything society in Sex Writing Goes Limp. She says: “Often times, instead of learning about the emotional and intellectual facets of a stranger’s sex life — and, most interesting, those contradictory cross-currents — I have felt an unwilling participant in their exhibitionistic fantasy. Why would I pay — be it with money or page views — to turn on a sex writer? I don’t read sex columns for the voyeuristic thrill, either; I read them for the same reason I read novels or watch movies – it helps me to intimately know people. Good sex writing is like an inkblot test, for the author and reader.”
6. Be careful when you switch over your relationship status on Facebook. You never know how your ex will react. Some will write a really mean blog entry about your new girlfriend on a social networking site and then delete it (I don’t know who would do such a thing). Others will ..well, they’ll react very poorly
7. Motherfucking, not hot Sarah Palin was on SNL, in live, elitist, NOT AMERICA, New York City and she got to say “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!”. Pieces of my little comedy nerd heart are now laying on the floor.
8. Best blog entry of the weekend: Tess Lynch on the Monopoly game at McDonald’s
9. This totally blows my mind: the Russian pop duo TATU (responsible for that awwwwesome song, “All The Things She Said”), was in an amatuer porno clip. Yes! We all knew that’s where they were headed, but to see it materialize is pretty amazing.
10. Finalmente, the last link of the night… some bitch wants you to call her and tell her a story. Any story. It’s a little something called Tell Me Something or The Confession Line and she wants you to call her and tell her something. This is the number: 646-495-9203 x 49934 (and this is the website: Tell Me Something)
Tracy! you know what’s awesome? Three people found this site today by googling “sybians and tracy clark-flory.”
That Palin SNL appearance was about as awkward as can be. Except for the excellent Ms. Fey, it was neither funny nor unfunny, just kind of there, like watching your student council do a skit at a rally. Palin never looked entirely comfortable and I’m not sure if she was totally in on the joke. I think she thinks she was, but the “I won’t be taking questions,” line was delivered with such a lack of irony that I think there’s a level she’s not grasping. And Todd, jesus, that’s just embarrassing.
I think you can see the decline of the sexpert as part of the broader impact of the shared cultural memory that television and now the internet has brought about. Call it generation google or the iPhone generation; there’s a whole class of savvy folks out there who have become hyper-informed about the world in ways that just weren’t possible 10 or 20 years ago.
Right, if you go to Melissa’s page and look at her presentation, you can see her theory is very similar: we are becoming the sexperts, the community is replacing that role. I think there’s still a need for good sex education, though, jut maybe delivered in a different way.
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@allan, I, the writer of this post, live in San Francisco and read Mission Mission! I lived in the Mission for 3 years before defecting to the Upper Haight and the Western Addition for another three, but am moving back to be in your warm embrace in a few weeks.