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Dec. 17, 1999 |
I am reminded of D.H. Lawrence, who frequently would step out of his novels' plots and characters (quite notably in "Lady Chatterly's Lover") to reflect on what the Industrial Revolution meant to the English countryside he grew up on. Today, his worries seem quaint. But they are a useful reference point. Like Lawrence, we are struggling to understand and explain the changing landscape of our culture. Future readers may look upon these stories and chuckle at our naiveté and excessive verbiage. For now, let's take a moment to immerse and confuse ourselves in this brave new world. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Seattle Weekly, Dec. 16-22 "Option envy" by Soyon Im This is not a typical "Everyone's getting rich off the new economy but me" essay; instead, Soyon Im bluntly discusses her desire and inability to keep up with a city being transformed by new wealth. The gap in spending power between her and her newly enriched friends has been insurmountable. It led to the breakup of one relationship and much soul-searching about her decision to be a poor but proud writer. Her desire to get rich too isn't greed, per se, but fear of being left out of her social circle. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Long Island Village Voice "A Trip Down The Scary AMAZON.COM" by Mark Fefer It's easy to forget this, as you're hurriedly surfing the Internet for that perfect present to give to Auntie May, but somebody actually had to write those 25-word e-commerce descriptions. Mark Fefer talks to three of the freelance "content providers" who have been hastily reviewing toys for Amazon.com. One writer tells Fefer: "I'd be looking at one of these no-purpose gelatinous balls with hunks of plastic floating around in it, made in some sweatshop in Singapore, and think, 'What am I supposed to say about this?' ... Sometimes my approach was, 'Let's see what it would take to break this.'" - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Metro Times Detroit "Rethinking ink" by Curtrise Garner Here's some big, exciting news for all those fools with Loony Toons cartoon characters inked into their skin: Thanks to laser surgery, tattoos are no longer permanent. This is technological innovation at its finest. It takes a common problem ("This tattoo is no longer cool") and provides help where there once was only misery. Oddly enough, the writer of this piece naively asserts that the only people who have and would like to get rid of tattoos are Gen Xers who fell prey to "a major fashion trend of the '90s." | ||
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