We go out in stormy weather

Well, sigh, next week I'm getting off the island for a bit to meet up with some wonderful but distant colleagues who will (unfortunately) be taking a bit of my work back to the States with them for review. So, at 1.30am on a Saturday, sick with dread at this thought and wanting to precondition myself for bad news, I superimposed real text from my article with real reviewer comments, except that the reviewer comments come from random YouTube videos...I think the results are quite funny and strangely appropriate.

In a hyper-real culture, awash in different forms of media representation, the simulation becomes more legitimate than that which it is meant to represent. Under such circumstances, deciphering reality from representation not only becomes an impossible task, it becomes an insignificant one.

-hahaha me and my friend just ate some of these tamazepan and we are laughing are asses off!! this is so funny! lol

The Situationists considered tourist attractions to be spatial lures, tempting the public into consumption. In the creation of these attractions any real significance is extracted from the location and replaced by a collection of images and signs that encourage the consumption of goods, services, and cultures.

-STOP analyzin, criticizin. You should realize what I am and start empitomizin. Legitimite I've got the heart of the biggest lion. I'm confident like fuck 'em all, pull out a dick and ride it.

[mp3] The way we get by :: Spoon

Goffman’s interactions are ambiguous, have hidden depth, and are prone to disingenuity. Goffman’s selves are managed, designed and inherently confrontational. For the self, intellectual activities such as perception analysis are fraught with tension as the individual struggles to reconcile what it expects and what it desires in the form of social interactions.

-ah, spoken like a true disgruntled virgin.