Famous In My Own Head

Upgrade/Downgrade…

jemurphy — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:47:12 +0000

…is all I have to say about THIS new couple. Although John has went from pretty stupid to pretty and talented, Jennifer went from Brad Pitt to tattooed songbird. I wouldn’t push him out of bed, although homeboy could use some sleep for those bags under his eyes.

XOXO

Gossip Guy

Get my head out of the DataCloud…

jemurphy — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:33:48 +0000

Johndan Johnson-Eilola wrote a book called DataCloud: Toward a New Theory of Online Work. The book was shortish, little interesting and if I had read this six months ago I probably would have taken a better liking to it. I have grown to hate the internet and technology in such a way that I would like to crush it. If I were a SuperVillian I would find a way to end the internet and go back to churing butter and riding goats everywhere because I’ve become SO jaded to technology.

As for his comments on the user friendly software to help promote the internets usage, I think they’re there, but I think that, for the most part, if you really need something you’re going to need a few more bell and whistle before you can make it happen. Besides, making something user friendly only makes more usermean things harder to take.

XOXO

Gossip Guy

Is there hope for me…

jemurphy — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:55:32 +0000

…if Star Jones and Al Reynods fake marriage broke up? Woe is me, I’ll probably never take a lover now

XOXO

Gossip Guy

Hey YouTube, Get out of my Facebook!

jemurphy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:53:35 +0000

I remember a time when Myspace was a white background any user could only post 9 picture (it might have been 12). I remember a time when if you wanted to see TLCs Red Light Special, you had to go without because where would you find that? I remember a time when only college students were allowed on Facebook, and Facebook wasn’t so in tned with my friends that I knew every time one of my friends added the “Am I Hot” application. Does anyone remember Hot or Not.com? Was this not a social networking site? Given, a judgemental one, but it cam before the life of the popular facebook.

Now Facebook, in an attempt to further invade my life (not that I’m complaining, I credit Facebook to keeping half of my friendships alive) has added a “people you might know,” application. I would be lying if I said that I recognized more than 1/8 of the people posted on there. And honestly, anyone popping up on the right side of my Facebook screen is probably no one I want on my friends list anyway. Given, it provides me with a little more drive to do a little more profile stalking, but what is that reall encouraging? I don’t need help if I want to find out what one of my exs is doing, I’ll google it the old fashioned way or call one of my friends to have them profile stalk for me.

This is all sparked by some reading I’ve been doing, it’s not just a social rant. I find the movement of social networking and even YouTubing to be one that embraces Pop Culture in a way that America has always wanted to. These outlets are more than new media, they have become electronic scrapbooks, memory boxes replacing hundreds of books and boxes of snapshots.

Is this a bad thing? Are we moving to such a electronic age that we are losing touch with the physical interaction we used to have with things? Could this be a step into (I shudder) the demise of the printed press. Perhaps some information has trickled under the radar and we’ve embraced it without even knowing.

Regardless, you know you love me

XOXO

Gossip Guy

It’s on now Bitches!

jemurphy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:15:15 +0000

Apparently Christian from Project Runway and The Girls from The Hills are feuding. I for one agree with his point, and I think Heidi Montag is a huge whore anyway.

You Love it!

XOXO

Gossip Guy

Oh Paris Hilton…

jemurphy — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:20:17 +0000

…I’ll be your friend, because apparently no one else wants to. Just buy me something nice and I’ll fake a smile and go along. How bad could it be?

You know you love me

XOXO

Gossip Guy

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jemurphy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:05:44 +0000

So, whats the deal with Powerpoint? I have to say that I’ve gone a good two years pretty much devoid of it in my life and I’ve been ok with it. If I saw powerpoint at a party I would gladly raise my glass in a welcoming and customary manor and not bother walking over and saying hello.

Why would I give this cold shoulder to powerpoint? Because it’s going to way of overhead projectors and posters. It’s pretty much the same thing but glamorized a bit more with some clicking. I can’t say that I’d have this same reaction if I hadn’t just, in the past two days, been reexposed to the trials and tribulations of not one, but two powerpoint presentations. They weren’t even good ones. Not that I think that flashing titles and pictures fading in would make any information presented in the way this was interesting.

I think that it was really interesting when I was in like 11th grade and the idea of doing a powerpoint was fresh and exciting. The overhead was passe’ and the website was still slgihtly abnormal. I think it had a niche for awhile, but sinde, our poor powerpoint has passed on to less exciting ventures.

To you, powerpoint, we raise a glass and bid a fond farewell, like hoop skirts and scruniches, your time has come and gone. But boy, did we love you when you were here.

XOXO

Gossip Guy

Oh Naomi Campbell…

jemurphy — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:35:10 +0000

…you’re such a benifit to the fasion world. However, you’re a living bain on society. The important thing about it is that you have an absloute grasp on reality. It’s clear why your actions at the airport due entirly to others faults. I’m sure if you had a cell phone to throw the whole incident would have been brushed off to the side.

You know you love me.

XOXO

Gossip Guy

If I die before I wake…

jemurphy — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:03:10 +0000

…it’s because blogging killed me.

You probably don’t love it that much

XOXO

Gossip Guy

If ignorance is bliss…

jemurphy — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:29:53 +0000

…how can knowledge bring clarity?

As my no doubt millions of readers know, I’m enrolled in a Writing for Electronic Communities Class at Rowan University. Every week we respond to questions and this weeks was based off some readings I found interesting, but nothing really stuck out for me.

However, a classmate posted a question regarding a quote from one of the readings and asked if knowledge could bring clarity. Although I love learning, I love knowledge, I love wanting to know things and realizing facts and becoming a better and better person for it, stupid people just seem a hell of a lot happier. I mean really, watch The Real World or Americas Next Top Model, these people are professional idiot and they’re on TV!

I wish my career ambition could be to meet Tyra Banks and possibly walk down a runway over and over again in unrealistic, fairly unwearable clothes that don’t translate to the real world. (Don’t worry Sona, I still love fashion, I’m just trying to make a point).

I can’t help but think of a discussion I had in college with a dear friend of mine. We had this fantasy when in an alternate universe I was straight and italian and from Staten Island (the location only mattered because we went to school on Long Island in NY, use whatever you’d like to make it work for you). And she was a trashy expensivly dyed blonde girl from Merrick and all we wanted to do was have out high powered, connected parents get us jobs we weren’t any good at but BECAUSE of our parents we would only move up in life. Isn’t that WONDERFUL?!

Really, wouldn’t you die to live in a little shell of the real world where everything is perfect because you’re too stupid to know otherwise?

Part of this is meant to be funny, but really, there is an allue to the idea of not wanting to better yourself intellectually because there’s no need. I’d love to be Paris Hilton and embrace vanity and drugs and make ridiculious statements and have everyone hate me but think they’re just jealous because I’m that dumb.

That’s what I thought of the reading this week I guess.

In other news, I had to get my transmission switch changed on my Saab at Cherry Hill Classic Auto (they deal porsches and saabs almost exclusivly) and the labor was $150 an hour. Lemme tell you something, I expect a lobster dinner and a blowjob for $150 an hour, not just mediocre service, a rather comfortable leather chair and poorly flavored coffee. And that’s what I have to say about that.

You know you Love me

XOXO

Gossip Guy