Another brilliant piece from a GUNNAS WRITING MASTERCLASS WRITER.
Just stay off the internet, Sparkle decries. Stay off the internet? What new kind of hell is this? Distractions in the shape of Vimeo shorts, endlessly linked Cracked articles, that person that I worked with a million years ago’s newsfeed. Absolutely, I can stay off the interwebz.
Etsy? It’s okay to check on the delivery of my hand printed movie poster on a mini easel right? Yeah, that can wait, I can totally hop off the net. Aw, crap, what about the email I got three weeks ago off a travelling mate I met in Riga. I’m sure I haven’t replied yet, I should check, really need to do that.
My favourite columnist has a new post. If it’s only one article, that’ll be fine. Reading it will help to inform my life view, furthering my self-aware education is important. It helps to remind me, to be conscious of being inclusive and intersectional. To come up with another debate point for when I meet a troll IRL. Totes valuable. Oooh, and there’s recommend similar reading, articles by the similar social commentators and journo’s. Not watching tv news or a daily paper, I feel more aware reading online. Though, are these online articles self-fulfilling prophecies, algorithms throwing up suggested reading and me, following links like Alice through the looking glass.
But, if I do stay offline, I’ll miss seeing my far away friends worlds erupt with joy and normality
twists and turn, up and down, deflect and reflect their existences. Frankie’s new hair colour or Julian’s Japanese journey unfold, travel porn and the biggest hot topic, whether Jo caves and gets a Toothless backpack. After I post this, just five minutes online won’t hurt… Lolz, who am I kidding. It won’t just be five minutes. But hell, I’ll save time by assuming Jo gets her Toothless backpack, anyone would.
It’d be awesome if you checked out our film website, including my review of Six Rounds, a knock-out use of black and white in a small tale around the London riots
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