Feb 16, 2006 15:41
Love
A glimpse of beautiful Alec Baldwin with a gun held through his thick chest hair with hidden jewels and gnomes and treasures and a boyish smile and a career of possibilities and success and I know that he is a master of theatrics.
Love
I sit back and smile and surf the elegantly produced yet underappreciated Marquette.edu and look at the beautiful faces and the guys playing frisbee and the basketball players and the Marquette Interchange Team is sending out fake bricks with which to build fake lives.
Fear
Congratulations, you’ve won a free Nokia toaster-oven valued at 50 million dollars just click here to claim and live a life of happiness and shame and regret take over as I’m bombarded with the souls of a thousand Nokia ghosts.
Fear
It’s OK they say, install this, install that and everything is great for just 99.99 and oh just some more and your computer is safe, sign here and here and send money here and here, buy more and more, live less and less CONSUMERISM.
This is a Ginsberg-esque poem I read last night at our Valentine's Week talent show--I performed a series about the internets. Much of the crowd didn't know how to react. For those of you wondering, today is National Marquette Day. No big deal.