Leon Theremin playing the instrument bearing his namesake
Russian Words I Think Are Beautiful 23: Naturalist
Essay: You Are Just An Asshole and/or Internet Genius
It is annoying when I send someone an email with relative urgency and then they don’t get back to me for hours but the whole time I am waiting I am casually watching them ‘social network’ on various platforms meaning that I am effectively being ignored.
In those situations I feel that they are 80% likely to know that they have received aforementioned email from me (if smartphone is being used). Usually these emails do not require a complicated response (a date/time/yes/no). So the fact that they read it, and then return to actively and publicly ‘social networking’ to me means that they are essentially saying that I am of low priority.
A couple of times I have had to restrain myself from going ahead and calling them out on it (via social media platform they’re using while ignoring my email). But I never actually did, would probably come off as an asshole or something. Also feel like if they wanted to, they could just give me a lame excuse which would be impossible to refute unless I did a stalkerish amount of investigating. Then even if I were to prove my point, I would still be the asshole who has nothing better to do than devote large chunks of time to social network-sleuthing, which no one thinks is something to ‘take seriously’.
I would probably lose my friends and that would probably be okay. At least at this particular moment, mostly because I have been thinking about my friends and our relationship dynamic a lot recently. I’m beginning to think I don’t actually like my friends.
(Source: motherjones)
Norwegian Arms - At The Formerly British Council Supported English Center
BITBY
Russian Words I Think Are Beautiful 24: Tally Ho!
Uncle John Scruggs - Little Log Cabin in the Lane
Russian Words I Think Are Beautiful 23: arshin (antiquated Russian unit of measurement of equal length to approximately 28 inches)
occupy philly begins tomorrow. hope to see you there.
October 14 in Baltimore at the Metro Gallery
with:
Moss of Aura (mem of Future Islands)
Bamboo
Chester Gwazda
18+ 9pm $8
Justin Murphy delivers his treatise on God and art.
iPad
2011
thursday 10.6 at johnny brenda’s. flyer by vikanova
sokol radio soviet era ad. everything from the swimming to the kaleidoscope to the voice over to the color of this film is so wonderful. I also really wish I had a basketball jersey with a cyrillic name on the back.
