Need a good mystery?
Well all you gotta do is go to the internet. It is full of intrigue! Just imagine that someone out there may not know what I am doing minute to minute on Twitter! OMG! Is she picking her nose? Sorting laundry? Eating a twinkie? Alert the media at once!
We are all...so...damn...important on the internet.
It is like we are the Pied Piper...come "follow" me. You don't have friends anymore...you have "followers." Sounds like a stalker's paradise to me. (and it quite often is. *wink*)
Our attention spans are so small now we are reduced to so many characters of expression.
It seems to me that our internet evolution is more like a devolution. Make no mistake that we are morphing into more primitive forms. Soon we will need no words at all. Just send an emoticon.
Have you noticed that people aren't talking anymore? We are just shouting out mindless drivel into the ethereal space.
"I LIKE CHEESE"
"I ONCE TOOK THE HEADS OFF ALL MY BARBIE DOLLS"
" MY DOG'S FARTS SMELL LIKE BACON!"
"IT LOOKS LIKE A SASQUATCH TO ME. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF IT?"
(warning...never let bloggers blog whilst drinking spiked lemonade)
Well holy Pastrami my fellow bloggers and bloggettes! We must hold some sort of standard for ourselves. We shall use complete sentences! We shall form complete thoughts! We will not fall into the Darwinian Internet cesspool!
Just say no to twitter.
(okay at least until tomorrow. Don't make me come there and give you a twittervention)
Now what was I talking about?
Oh yes...I am happy! You know why? Sex.
It is totally true. In my quest for health site domination I am now the community leader for the sexual health site on Health Central. I ain't lying. Seriously...I am. And to prove it, I spent some of this past weekend writing about gonorrhea. Yeah you try to spell that word over and over. Okay a bit of trivia...do you know why it is called "the clap"? Because the treatment they used to use for men was to clap the sides of the penis to rid it of green or yellow pus. Yeah...that sounds...pleasant. Do you know any historical figures who had gonorrhea? Huh? Do ya? Well I do.
To find out the answer to this and even more questions I know you must have about this particular STD...go here! And did you know...it is STD awareness month. Yes indeedy.
You all are welcome to the sexual health site. This is my personal invitation to you. The focus of the site is going to be more on fertility and pregnancy but both men and women are definitely welcome. Come on over and answer my question of the week at least. Pretty please?
All right enough about sex!
Now for a little depression. Okay let me rephrase that. Now it is time for some mental health!
Have you ever wondered how Buddhist philosophy would help with regaining mental health?
Well I did. I did an interview with a friend of mine who is very knowledgeable about Buddhism (he is the editor of a Buddhist magazine) and gave me a unique perspective on hope and healing from depression. I hope you will be as enlightened as I was to read what he had to say. You can find that interview right here.
And of course I welcome you to be a part of the depression connection discussion of the week which you can find right here.
I would be happy if you ignore everything else I write but came here instead to read my interview with Robert Parish who does some amazing work in creating documentaries about autism. He was my editor for the book I am in....Embracing Autism and...in honor of Autism Awareness Month I really want to get the message out about this topic. Writing about autism is my first love. Writing is my way to give back.
So if you could...come and read and comment. It would mean a lot to me. Just follow this link.
And lastly but not leastly...
I wrote about vacationing when you have Multiple Sclerosis. I wrote about going on a trip to hell...oh I mean Walt Disney World during the time right before my diagnosis. I didn't know I had MS and it made for an exceptionally "interesting" trip. If you have MS and you have a story to tell about vacations or travel please do stop by and either share it in a comment or sharepost. I could sure use some tips and I am sure our readers could too.
Okay so...I know I am a total loser for not visiting you more often. I will get there....sometime soon...like after I eat some more jelly beans and the rest of that rabbit and the ham and...the rest of the christmas candy in the back of the fridge and...
I will be by soon by golly! Or my name isn't matilda magillucutty. Okay it's not but that is beside the point.
signing off now...
toodles!
Come sit a spell and shoot the breeze. Sweeten the day with a little synchronicity...
8 comments:
OK, I will never clap unselfconsciously again.
Congratulations on the sexual health gig. When I lived in San Francisco, I volunteered at Magnet, a men's sexual health clinic in the Castro. My job was to enter demographics, symptoms, and services requested for each client into a database. I could always count on there being one or two that would make me laugh or gross me out each week. One of my favorites was:
"Symptoms: There's a tingling in my ass."
You know, some people pay good money for that.
Oh, I love this, a "Twittervention!" You crack me up!
Form complete thoughts and sentences? Why you radical, you. That's almost seditious speech, rage against the Twitter Blue Bird tweeting a happy tune of urls, acronyms and abbreviations!
"We will not fall into the Darwinian Internet cesspool!"We're on a slippery slope though.
"holy pastrami!" you are on a roll. I"ll have the kind of lemonade she's having...
okay .. i'll have some of that spiked lemonade now ..
you still got some left?
anyway ..
i'm presently sitting at the computer typing a comment ..
just thought i'd update you on the now which by the time you post this comment will be the past ..
so, tell me .. why do people twitter again?
tweet ..
oh, yeah .. now i'm off to visit the sex site ..
I absolutely love your writing style and the humor in it is so funny!
That is true - we have *Folowers* don't we? No Twitter here! It is all the same to me.
I have my blogs and that is ALL I need!
Now, friend, where is that writing blog of yours!
Teresa/Dreamwriter
Oh you are busy as usual!! You sound so good, my friend. Haven't heard from you in a while and hoping that all is well. I'm doing well, gaining weight. Minor flares when the weather changes. Today mild dizzy spells off and on. Not a big deal but don't like it. Rain due tomorrow. I could have told the weatherman that myself! Good to read you! D
You were either the first to arrive or the last to put your hand down to get this assignment.
Or perhaps you are well know to have a vast amount of sexual experience:))
Twitter:
One of the problems with Twitter is that it's too brief; it allows no opportunity for relationship to develop. It's like trying to know someone through what they scrawl in a restroom stall
“ Social network sites risk infantilising the mid-21st century mind, leaving it characterised by short attention spans, sensationalism, inability to empathise and a shaky sense of identity, according to a leading neuroscientist. ”
Dalai:
Yes give us some more Dalai lama wisdom. I think he can help a lot of people to find their own way to happiness, reading his books it is a good start, as a good scientist I started with the ones where he dialogues with scientists, but I also read his books about compassion happiness and so on. He can show you the way, but you have to follow, otherwise nothing is going to improve.
Parish:
About the parish note, I think it is very interesting, well I am fascinated about how the brain works, (In the dysfunctional ones it is easier to make discoveries). Lately I have been studying the savants, not the fully autistics, but I found them pretty related. I think that at least savants (and probably autistic people) have much more resources nowadays to lead a normal life, and also more techniques that incentive them to develop their undeveloped areas/skills.
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