Shanti says i should get on Facebook and Twitter as soon as possible so I can spread my work around the internet like a virus. So I guess these days, at least when it comes to disseminating information, a virus is a good thing. But there's something about the sound of it I don't like, this idea of puking words in a way that people will see them instead of crafting them carefully for print, which is so nice and neat and pretty and well, permanent. Plus, you have to earn your place in print. You can't just barf onto a napkin and hand it around to every asshole who's curious enough to look at it, which is the sense i get from some of these sites. There's a certain voyeuristic quality about the whole thing that just makes it feel cheap.
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