Oh My Girl wtf *rolls up sleeves, spits on palms* I AM HERE
In all fairness, in terms of actual replays, it's been "Liar Liar" > "Windy Day" > "Closer" over here. Also "Knock Knock," which I put on my older daughter's birthday mix because she's been so fond lately of telling knock-knock jokes, and because I am a sucker for Seunghee in the chorus and Mimi repeating "beautiful."
btw Crayon Pop now have their own V app channel, though I don't know how often they're expected to actually put stuff on there, and I think a comeback is rumored to be happening sometime in the next month or so
I think about the hallway/classroom metaphor sometimes while walking through actual hallways and peeking into actual classrooms (younger daughter can get to the school bathroom by herself after school, and I can let her; that does not mean school staff approves of her wandering around hallways without my direct supervision, post-dismissal) without drawing any actual useful conclusions. yet. Curriculum Night is Thursday.
BTW, OMG WTF (IMO)koganbotAugust 16 2016, 15:45:43 UTC
This is the first time I've heard the phrase "V app channel." Is it this? What's the advantage of following, rather than just going to, say, a group's YouTube page?
If I'd been being more nuanced I'd have written, "Oh My Girl crypto-wtf," since I can be minutes into an Oh My Girl track before a question mark starts tenuously forming north of my noggin.
Btw, I assume initials OMG are deliberate. Are there any acts whose initials, intentionally or no, are WTF?
I'm 99% certain the name Oh! My Girl was chosen for the abbreviation. Sadly, their fanname is Miracle, not We The Fans or Loving Out Loud or something along those hoary lines. V app -- not sure what its advantages are as opposed to YouTube; maybe it was developed locally?
Way to godavidfrazerSeptember 9 2016, 13:44:07 UTC
Here's Crayon Pop's new song “Vroom Vroom”, which was composed by Way and is a pre-release track from their upcoming album. It reminds me a lot of Orange Caramel's Italodisco song "Funny Hunny".
Was thinking about the decay of Tumblr coming after the decay of standalone blogs (Blogspot, Wordpress) and LiveJournal, and the emergence of Facebook as the new online standard for connecting to likeminded people. It's really frustrating
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My quick, glib reaction is that Facebook as you've described it is another example of the classroom getting squashed under the hallway's fat white-elephant ass, in this case the relevant hallway being not so much the hallway of flirting and fighting but the hallway of just getting along and passing time.* But why this squashing should happen isn't obvious, since my assumption is not only that we can do social media and an intellectualized subject matter at once, but that, assuming we do them well, we'll do them better together than if we'd done each separately.
Back in '87 I was trying to get relatives, flatmates, etc., incl. e.g. random people Patty Stirling had met in Australia, to write for my music zine, which was a spinoff of my other zine which they were already writing for. I was trying to include in the music zine the life experience of people who hadn't been socialized into rock criticism or into indie-alternative. (For non-skyecaptains reading this, my zines were basically message boards/comment threads.) Obv. I wasn't any more
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In a well-functioning community, if someone doesn't have time to research a question or work out an idea, she can crowdsource the research, ask for critiques, inspire others to develop the concept. If someone misreads, others can correct the misreading. If someone's in repetition mode, others can prod her, or run with her ideas where she herself is staying stuck. If someone goes berserk we can intervene to talk that person down. If someone's getting bullied the crowd can subdue or isolate the bullying, can defend and encourage the person being bullied. My saying this may seem naïve in an online world of distraction and gamergate, and I understand where you might feel at risk at home or at work if everyone knew your truth. But strong communities don't need everybody to be in caution mode and don't need the truth to be squelched. The technology that puts us at risk also connects us. Colleagues and family and strangers can provide unexpected encouragement - so long as enough of them and enough of us see that something is at stake
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*Double meaning of "passing time" here, since actual hallways are at most use during the time of passing from one class to another, and of passing one another - this time of passing carrying with it a built-in exit strategy: if you don't want a conversation to go too far, you can always just say, "Great to see you. Gotta go." Meanwhile, briefly, you are just hanging out, passing time.
**Communities? Sets of people - loose aggregations of similar types, loose aggregations of sets, similar sets with similar or somewhat related hooks, spinning off from some musics, and (mostly postbeatnik to liberal to left) social critiques, and in fairly similar other things, in the lives of children, the lives of children and music, and media, and school
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"After much experimentation and discussion, we’ve concluded that the comment sections on NPR.org stories are not providing a useful experience for the vast majority of our users. In order to prioritize and strengthen other ways of building community and engagement with our audience, we will discontinue story-page comments on NPR.org on August 23."
Nate Cohn's tweet regarding "total failure of comment threads"koganbotOctober 2 2016, 16:34:13 UTC
Nate Cohn: "I feel like the total failure of comment sections foreshadowed 2016."
Don't really agree, that comment sections are through and through failures.
But it's interesting that it's Cohn who says this; he writes for the NY Times, which is still pushing its comment threads, still seems to be using them as ways to attract and engage readers. I find most comments on Times threads to be commonplace and ignorant, with some pomposity thrown in, though the threads provide an interesting window nonetheless; but I generally don't find the threads offensive or grossly dysfunctional
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Silber and Nelsonedd_hurtAugust 29 2016, 00:23:55 UTC
Frank, saw a line or two from you about Irwin Silber and Paul Nelson. Silber I know a little about; Nelson I've lately become interested in. If the word "tragic" means anything, it applies to Nelson's strange, solitary life. I don't share his aesthetics, for the most part--Chet Baker, Jackson Browne and Ralph Stanley make for a strange trio--but I do admire his devotion to writing and his obsessiveness,, and his taste in cinema. Is the Nelson-Silber contretemps about Newport '65 and Sing Out? I'm interested in this. I've skimmed Richie Unterberger's interview with Silber, plan to re-read it shortly. --E.H.
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*rolls up sleeves, spits on palms* I AM HERE
In all fairness, in terms of actual replays, it's been "Liar Liar" > "Windy Day" > "Closer" over here. Also "Knock Knock," which I put on my older daughter's birthday mix because she's been so fond lately of telling knock-knock jokes, and because I am a sucker for Seunghee in the chorus and Mimi repeating "beautiful."
btw Crayon Pop now have their own V app channel, though I don't know how often they're expected to actually put stuff on there, and I think a comeback is rumored to be happening sometime in the next month or so
I think about the hallway/classroom metaphor sometimes while walking through actual hallways and peeking into actual classrooms (younger daughter can get to the school bathroom by herself after school, and I can let her; that does not mean school staff approves of her wandering around hallways without my direct supervision, post-dismissal) without drawing any actual useful conclusions. yet. Curriculum Night is Thursday.
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If I'd been being more nuanced I'd have written, "Oh My Girl crypto-wtf," since I can be minutes into an Oh My Girl track before a question mark starts tenuously forming north of my noggin.
Btw, I assume initials OMG are deliberate. Are there any acts whose initials, intentionally or no, are WTF?
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Back in '87 I was trying to get relatives, flatmates, etc., incl. e.g. random people Patty Stirling had met in Australia, to write for my music zine, which was a spinoff of my other zine which they were already writing for. I was trying to include in the music zine the life experience of people who hadn't been socialized into rock criticism or into indie-alternative. (For non-skyecaptains reading this, my zines were basically message boards/comment threads.) Obv. I wasn't any more ( ... )
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**Communities? Sets of people - loose aggregations of similar types, loose aggregations of sets, similar sets with similar or somewhat related hooks, spinning off from some musics, and (mostly postbeatnik to liberal to left) social critiques, and in fairly similar other things, in the lives of children, the lives of children and music, and media, and school ( ... )
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Don't really agree, that comment sections are through and through failures.
But it's interesting that it's Cohn who says this; he writes for the NY Times, which is still pushing its comment threads, still seems to be using them as ways to attract and engage readers. I find most comments on Times threads to be commonplace and ignorant, with some pomposity thrown in, though the threads provide an interesting window nonetheless; but I generally don't find the threads offensive or grossly dysfunctional ( ... )
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