November 2008
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Text Etiquette
Last week, I heard Stephen Stills song (circa 1970), “Love the One You’re With,” while shopping at a supermarket. Some advice to heavy texters: Be with the ones you’re with. If you’re with a bunch of people, stop texting and hang with your friends. I’m not talking texting to your friends that are there, but texting to someone somewhere else who is taking you...
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Apartment Dwelling
Somebody is grateful this Thanksgiving. Windows are open, and somewhere in earshot a woman is having an orgasm.
Do you have a story about city living that you’d like told? Please e-mail Joe Wilcox: oddlytogether at gmail.com.
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Language Old is New Again
In reading the excerpt below from Of Plymouth Plantation, by William Bradford, words are less where they are more today. There’s a conciseness in the writing style and word length that reminds me of text messages and tweets. The old and new fit oddly together. The paragraph, which I broke into three, would fill 10 tweets, by the way. To me, the excerpt evokes similar feeling...
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“I may not here omite how, notwithstand all their great paines and industrie, and...”
– William Bradford, 1590-1657, from personal account: Of Plymouth Plantation.
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