mardi 5 mai 2009

Technology and Desire


We finally spilled a glass of wine all over our computer keyboard. Ah!  time to buy a new one. Why did we wait so long? The new one has such springy keys, so responsive to our  touch, so smooth yet yielding like fine small squares of dense, toothsome chocolate.

We hover by the screen these days. Because our age old dream – that of a bus filled with all the people we’ve loved and lost throughout our long life heading straight for heaven – is back! Yes - 75 Friends and counting.

First - we stopped off at the technology store on our way home to join the friends. We became excited by the thousand flat screens, the sleaker computer speakers, the toys to flatter our own darling ipod, the little waffle iron that could. And – don’t tell now! - we sneaked so slyly into the Mac section, more than ready to cheat on our PC. And please tell us - how much will it really cost us to get an iphone, do you reckon? We’ll pay.

Technology will save us... technology will bury us...The medium is the…what? Never you  mind.