Letters from the Zeitgeist
Did you know that before Sylvia Plath wrote shrieking guttural howls like Daddy and became the idol of angsty adolescents everywhere (‘Sylvia Suicide Doll’, in her daughter’s bitter words), she penned things like romantic villanelles?
Mad Girl’s Love Song
Sylvia Plath
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born [...]
One of these days, I’m going to write about why I think Facebook is a much better implementation of the social networking concept than MySpace. But until then, here’s a conversation with Nikkiana from a few minutes ago, regarding Dana Boyd’s new essay, Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad?
Firas:
i really dislike how danah [...]
The unfortunate corollary to a saying about New England weather—’if you don’t like it, just wait a few minutes’—is that if you happen to like the weather at a particular moment, well, soon you won’t. For example, although the Sun makes a heroic annual effort to usher in Spring, the skirmishes of ice persevere well [...]
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