I feel a song coming on. Nothing’s more fun than taking an old forgotten tune and writing new words. Many times these songs had wonderful melodies and useless lyrics. Who could really feel comfortable singing, ‘Where The Boys Are?’ Especially the soulfull way Connie Francis sings. Yet the tune is memorable. And it is organized [...]

Today I friended, yet again, Iva Bigen,sigh. Totally Monty Python sniggering adolescent humour. I can practically hear the page tittering away behind the scenes. Tittering. (They’d be laughing at that too.) This is probably the lowest point to which Facebook sinks. Made-up smutty profiles for idiots to click blindly while amassing reams of ‘friends.’
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Just in on a facebook conversation with someone who had attained his full 5000 friends. What do you do after? You get a new e-mail address, a new profile and then you begin on your next 5000, he says as though everyone does it this way. I couldn’t tell if this is [...]

Promised yesterday at work that I would friend Andrew Thomson. (Odd to me that ‘friend’ has become a verb). Always half-exhausted when I get home but I dutifully went to Facebook and typed Andrew’s name into the search engine, only to find that there were 500 of the same name, mostly residing in Edinborough.
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Note- These all fall under the Creative Non-Fiction genre, but I’m here to tell you they are all true & all less than 2500 words. I’m sending them out this weekend but haven’t settled on just where yet. Plus I’m going to have to go back and get their exact titles. Here I’m just pitching [...]

Being raised outside the norm by survivalist parents, it has taken me a long time to become ‘civilized.’ Every day I have to work at it hard, understanding reciprocity of speech, for example. That is, when someone says, ‘how are you?’ the response is not, ‘mind your own business,’ but, rather, ‘fine, and how are [...]

I’m still not used to the idea that when I post a picture, it goes to the pages of all my 2220 some ‘friends.’ It seems very odd. But then, when I went to bed last night, I had 2292 friends. “Ah,” I thought, “tomorrow I’ll be up to 2300.
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Started adding neighbours today after one of them friended me. Without asking, it is hard to know who might be on Facebook. Except for the writers and artists, who have work, books and readings to promote, most individuals have around 10 to 50 friends, nearly all relatives or someone they knew in highschool.
Went [...]

Sci Fi writer Fritz Lieber wrote more than one short story about a future population so satiated with virtual reality that they no longer participated in real life. When Karl Marx said religion was the opiate of the masses, he reckoned without Facebook. Enough of us are on line enough that the real [...]

I was the sole judge for a big city short story competition some years ago. (I’m sure after that, they always had more than one). I received about fifty stories in the mail. Young and enthusiastic at that time, I was delighted to have my reading material assigned to me for some weeks [...]