I can't lose vigilance for just one second, let alone a month or two, before all stupidity breaks loose. I've been remiss and in my absence new idiocies rage unabated. What I'm referring to is this new crazy cuckoo cosmic concept of TAGS. Tagging is now all the rage.

It's purports to be a liberation of some dubious sort, the realtime web organizized by YOU!! But in reality it all amounts to just more emotional fascism. One more stupid thing to do to make one seem cool and purposeful and part of a bigger world. The wired becomes YOUR personal web!

Now mind you, I'm not against a better way to organize bookmarks. Hierarchies are not always the best way to search. But I don't really see the point of social bookmarks. I'm perfectly fine with bookmarking the pages I want to without going through the tedious bother of adding keywords and other levels of unnecessary activity. For example, right now, I have a bookmark folder entitled HILLBILLY. Now, when I save a website to that folder, I know what I mean by that. I dont need some keyword to find it later. And I sure as hell wont have it dont want some peckerwood who wouldn't know a hillbilly from a hellbilly making MY personal web a part of HIS personal web. To HELL with that! For me, the only tags should be HTML tags. Onward!

I'd rather read about British politics, and all that all that psycho social-engineering dross. I'd rather read some minimalistically readable and quasi-insipic college girl blog. I'd rather read something totally unreadable and stupid (no I wouldn't). I'd rather read about the Wo Pong Yos, who thankfully don't tag their photos, thus saving themselves from the slough of emotional fascism. I'll lay this to rest, for the moment with an archival post from Joho the Blog, and then dash off to skewer the gullible, and all that dross.

The Dwarves Chronicle deserves good roasting. It's a Fake group blog that is obviously the work of a person who either has split personalities, or who is not a very good fantasy role-player.

But I can't seem to get off those TAGS. I think the whole concept takes all the magic and joy out of discovery. The best things are found through happenstance. A good example of this is Were There Mushrooms In The Tea? A nice presentation of essential nonsense you can live without. Please, Will Elmore, for god's sake DONT Tag your photos!!

Then again, chewing my shoes would normally get a sound thromping....Della types a blog like she's doing a 17 minute drum solo at a Robin Trower/Outlaws/Black Oak Arkansas concert at the Brown County Arena in Green Bay, Wisconsin. But she likes Joni Mitchell, so I will kick it back a notch because she plays LADIES OF THE CANYON at full volume! I hope she also plays HEJIRA, and MINGUS at full volume as well.

And....speaking of Green Bay, Wisconsin....just by happenstance and not tags, I found the ultimate teenage girl blog of all time (or tonight). It is so fabulous and dreadful in every way imaginable, but it's still compelling enough to wade through the insipic song lyrics to find the essential details. She's the goalie for her soccer team, but no longer has a shutout. But even when her soccer team kicks ass she's still pissed. New London and Wrightstown crumble before her, but she's still pissed. I was hoping that she would have a tale to tell about how her team beat those Hortonville fuckers, and she would STILL be pissed. But maybe some other day.

Meanwhile, more British political bullshit. My take is that Tony Blair is the lesser of any number of evils. Not saying much, there.

And whether the music sucks or does not suck at MusicThatDoesNotSuck, I'm not about to say, except to say that the music that does not suck is the music that I say does not suck. So fock the social web and all that dross. We'd all be in little boxes, hiding from both hierarchy and magic. We'd be playing it frighteningly safe in string-me-along worlds.

After all, what would you get if you searched for DANGER as a tag?

Why, someone else's
Petty fascism of course.
No thinking at all.


Mood: Sullen & Vigilant
Wine: LINDEMANS Bin 65 Chardonnay 2003
Music: "Circle Sky" by The Monkees
posted by Fat Nakago at 10:34 PM