...and some faithful readers are so frustrated by this
lack of functionality that they've had to take matters into their own hands.
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Suck My Culture
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
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Clinging to what?
Please you have to stop.
Bruce, it's just not even amusing anymore. Your fratboy tour de jour of Paris is nothing short of an insult. Go home. Go back to Texas. Stop writing. There is a tenuous grip here all right, yours on reality.
Cling to connectivity? Are you joking? It's Paris. It has wifi. It even has cans of Coke which I can see your trembling redneck fingers locked around. It's not the far outer reaches of the universe. It's fucking Paris. Really, if it's so dangerous and you think you may fall outside of the network coverage of civilisation at any moment, I suggest you get to the Airport – pronto.
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Saturday, November 06, 2004
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The world is not your disney movie
Yes you.
You, Bruce Sterling.
That's right, the texan sitting on the couch with his laptop covered in stickers like some pokemon card contest of cultural anthropology. Perhaps it takes some real genius to find the threatening frisson of exotic danger in a hotel lobby in switzerland, but we doubt it. It's tiring that you talk at us and never to us. The effort you expend to convince us of your cool like some Henry Morton Stanley with an ibook just does not cut it. You travel light, but your affectations must give you a hernia. We have one polite request. Please. Please stop writing.
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