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Love letters have vanished, to be replaced by smiley faces and crosses: ‘I luv u xx.’
Read it and weep.
” — http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1371009/Twitter-Its-just-tidal-wave-drivel.html[video]
“Before you start doubting yourself, make sure you’re not just surrounded by assholes.”
“don’t be a cog…the post-industrial man, who shrinks himself into a shape that fits his circumstances, then turns dutifully till he stops.”
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
Drag queens used to be hard.
Now it’s all Gloria Gaynor and lip gloss.
I mean, it was always Gloria Gaynor and lip gloss, but also, savage beat downs.
What happened to the savage beat downs?
“After Corey’s death, the mummified body of Robert Worley (aka Robert Wells), was found in Corey’s belongings with a gunshot wound to the head.” — Edward Conlon. The Drag Queen and the Mummy. Transition, No. 65 (1995), pp. 4-24
Thelonious Monk
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.