"Like": Preposition: Having the same characteristics or qualities as; similar to: "they were like brothers". Conjunction: In the same way that; as: "people who change countries like they change clothes". Definition of "like from Google's 'Everything' Search
 |
| Lagged2Death's Favorite |
What's the world coming to? And what's more, what does this mean? And what does this say about me?
I am starting to become, horror of horrors, a cyber social network person. I get my kicks from some person who I do not know (and who I will never know) in FaceBook jargon, "liking" one of my photos. Call it "adding it as a favorite", "liking it", "hearting it", "plus one-ing" or "one-plussing" it, it's all the same. Someone clicked something I'd posted, and I was pleased.
Good god! I'm starting to have a cyber life. Well better than no life. Come to think of it, I wonder, does "Lagged2death" have a life?
Whatever. A large part of my life is becoming "cyber". Take today for instance. I was walking to my bus stop on Third Avenue. It's close to Dylan's Candy Bar. And just in case you don't know, and of course, even if you do,
From Wiki entry on Dylan's Candy Bar: "Dylan's Candy Bar is a chain of boutique candy shops and candy supplier currently located in New York City, East Hampton, Roosevelt Field, Orlando and Houston, as well as in wholesale venues around the globe. It is owned by Dylan Lauren, daughter of Ralph Lauren."
Dylan's is a few meters from my bus stop and I always glance at their window display. Usually I keep on walking but today I did a double-take. What was this? A display of candies arranged to look like grave-stones, with the inscription, "RIP". In Americanese, I thought to myself, 'huh?'
Did "RIP" stand for something other than I'd understood it for the last 100 years?
I stood there staring like someone from another century. Which of course I am! Hells bells!
 |
| Candy Gravestones at Dylan's Candy Bar |
I moved away from Dylan's window. My bus was coming. I got on and took my seat. And "tweeted".
"I am so NOT a Halloween person!"
Which just goes to show that:
a: deep down I am still a true-blue aussie
and
b: I am a social networking person.
Until next tweet,
I am Kathleenwng and I approve this message.
2 comments:
Faked me out, girl.
Come to think of it, I wonder, does "Lagged2death" have a life?
Not by New York standards, I reckon, and not as much as he'd like, frankly, but yes, sort of.
I loved the geometry in that picture of yours, the way the chairs all lined up to be a part of a larger shape that really only existed in the mind of the beholder.
Post a Comment