Fragments From Twitter

Some days you really feel the absence of the monoculture.

In 50 years they’ll think we’re lying when we talk about how you could strike up a conversation with a stranger and share references and phrases and jokes like you were old friends…

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A new album coming out used to be a big deal.

People would go to a store early and buy a copy and spend all weekend listening to it.

You don’t hear about that much anymore.

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When my dad was a kid in the United States of America, if he needed to go somewhere he would stand by the road and make a symbol with his hand and someone would stop to give him a ride.

He never had any issues travelling like this or giving others rides.

Another world.

Been a while since I’ve seen a perfectly globular sun, unobscured by clouds, setting beneath the horizon

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Guy in his middle 60s sitting at the bar working on his resume on his laptop…

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Afternoon winter sunlight coming through the shades and illuminating the bottles on the bar.

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The clerk at the gas station looking at his smartphone.

Smartphone on the gas pump.

A homeless guy is laying on his side looking at his smartphone.

A teenage girl is in the passenger seat looking at her smartphone.

I walk back to my house and type this on my smartphone.

A world of digital primitives, their smartphones infecting them with hysteria unto madness and death.

“Airwaves” used to be a common phrase in the vernacular.

Discarnate entities would describe themselves or their program as “on the air”.

Now that that technology has had a massive advancement and become ubiquitous, you’re not supposed to acknowledge it.

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When you listen to the radio or a podcast or an audiobook, the sound comes at you from 360 degrees, it’s affect is that it comes from everywhere and nowhere, from within and without.

Now imagine the same thing happening, but with images.

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Same timeframe went from a country where you could safely and reliably hitchhike to one where most people will just record you with their cell phone if you’re bleeding to death in the road.

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Questions like “do you like your job?” “do you like yourself?” “do you want to have kids?” were considered absurd only like 75 years ago

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Filling our heads with stories of heroism and bravery and adventure was cruel in retrospect.

To keep doing it now is absurd.

People who take Xanax and go to therapy wearing Carhartt..

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In a limousine on the highway in Malaysia smoking a cigarette listening to Patsy Cline passing people burning their trash…

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What if when you’re old, and getting ready to pass on, everything is exactly like this?

Hazy skies, weird weather, people bickering online, everything getting a little more expensive.

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I don’t regret any of the times I sat on a bench doing nothing at all.