Two Memes: Lost In A Game of Telephone
Or, as The Doctor calls it, "Chinese Whispers". (God bless the British for being able to unselfconsciously use "Chinese" to mean "ass backwards". God bless 'em.)
Anyway, I just wanted to point out a couple of bees in my bonnet: silly internet memes that were once clever but have now succumbed to the sort of mediocrity you'd come to expect when the crowd gets involved. The first is song charts which graph only a single data point. You remember making outlines in 7th grade, right? Having only one subsection bespeaks poor organization of your thoughts. Thus:
Listen, people, there are no shortage of songs out there with funny things to graph. If you have to make a graphs that looks roughly like the one above, you need to pick another song. It is not funny. Are we clear? Just in case, here is an example of a song with several data points to graph:
Moving right along, could we take a moment to re-explain the Six Word Memoir meme to everyone? Please? Hemmingway's original six word story is such a stroke of genius that you can cash in on the warm glow as long as you pay attention and read the directions carefully. This is not the chance for you to write a six word aphorism that sums up your life. You are trying to create a narrative with only the scarcest of tools. Sigh. (Sorry to... uh... whoever it was that posted the six word aphorism and set me off on this tare. I'm sure you just got a set of bad instructions.) Let's review:
For Sale: Baby Shoes. Never worn.
See? There's a story. It doesn't sum anyone up, but it hits you in the chest with loss, conflict, and questions. Please try again.
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