I thought you were playing a trick on us and somewhere in the clip the wig was going to fly off the guy’s head. Then I realized it was serious. First let me say that I have spent my life checking out and making fun of bad wigs and toupees, so I think I know a little about what I’m talking about here. Now, getting back to your hair. I would have never noticed that was a wig or hairpiece at all. The hair looked natural because your hairstyle didn’t look perfect.
I wouldn’t have thought anything about the hair unless you mentioned it.
I was wondering why the tone sounded a bit thin until I noticed that there was a microphone taped to the back of the fiddle-- hardly the best way to mic an instrument!
There once was a violinist named Ciurlia
Whose ringlets were all tight and curly-a
But with music stand (!)
And sheet music to hand (!)
All his best efforts at being a nonTrad player making a drive-by go at a vaguely here’s-a-creature-in-a-zoo, medley-arranged-with-a-boomchuck-piano potpourri treatment of Irish jigs, not to mention his wooden, one-dimensional sawing (rather than actually trying to play them; but hey, it’s folk music), made me, I do admit, rather surly-a.
Molly Wood rants about what she calls the
“Literal Internet”. We’ve all been part of that
group at one time or other: Someone makes
a blog or forum post or video that is pretty
obviously (to most) a joke, but many people
will post comments thinking it was meant
literally. It is a (hopefully momentary) lack
of Irony Sense™. Often the OP is baffled,
thinking they’d included enough Irony Markers
to clue everyone in (never sniff Irony Markers
… that high is like rain on your wedding day).
I was accusing people I’ve never met IRL
of gullibility. It’s my new hobby.
Anyway, I respectfully cannot agree: one should sniff Irony Markers, should one not?
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
It’s a free ride when you’ve already paid.
Who is this Molly, and why should her opinion sway me otherwise? >
I provided handy linkage. Those words
aren’t blue because they’re holding their
breath. (there should be a “snarky”
smilie)
Molly Wood is an internet journalist and
commentarian. I just like her coinage
“Literal Internet” and was giving her props
when I mentioned it. I don’t think an
opinion, was put forth, but if it had been,
feel free to poo-poo it.
Oh, no you don’t. You said that she rants about Literal Internet (whatever that is, and frankly, I’m not getting the point of this conversation without better clarification. Call me obtuse). I checked the link and saw nothing that would suggest any of that, or what she - or you - mean about it, or why it matters. I’m not even sure it matters to you. Gimme an actual article, and we’ll talk. I spend enough time searching for other stuff, and it’s generally not opinions.
Hm. I thought that since the only words included
in the link were “Molly Wood”, it would be obvious
the link was just about Molly Wood herself, not
the rant in question. If I were linking to the rant,
I would have used the word “rant” as the link text.
Good grief.
If you really want to hear the rant, you’d have to
listen to episode 236 of This Week in Tech, 'cause…
that’s where it happened. And perhaps now you
see why I didn’t link to it.
The point is, there is a group of people who one might call the “Literal Internet”. They are the ones
who think jokes are literally true instead of ironic
and silly, and post accordingly.