>Circa-1994 Yahoo had as many entries for “Art > Erotica” as “Art > Architecture,” suggesting that the WWW was going to be a horny place more than a spatial one

>Circa-1994 Yahoo had as many entries for “Art > Erotica” as “Art > Architecture,” suggesting that the WWW was going to be a horny place more than a spatial one (yup). “Society” and “Culture” broke down into “People,” “Religion,” and related categories. No one asked then why computer engineers were categorizing human knowledge, though they should have. I have fond memories of K-mart. It used to be the only place you could get cheap, solid colored clothing, logoless clothing like the solid black long sleeved shirt I paired with some dad jeans to dress up as Steve Jobs for Halloween after he died from treating cancer with fruit cleanses. You haven’t truly lived until you’ve been driven across a college town handing out cans of Hamm’s from the back of a pickup truck, only to have the future librarians and computer scientists running the department house party get visibly disappointed you are not their coke dealer, who apparently is also dressed as Steve Jobs. The last days of big retail were truly decadent and depraved. (And you’ll get a third nostril if you keep locking yourself in the bathroom every time we run into each other outside “work” girlfriend.) Anyways: Every winter I’d show up to get cheap hats and gloves that weren’t festooned with some logo and I wouldn’t be sad if left behind in a strange apartment. What we’re left with are places like Wal-Mart, a company I haven’t set foot in since the Bush administration, that pairs a McDonalds with curse less rap CDs and posters of missing children with purposefully scheduling folks such they’ll qualify for food stamps then giving them the forms: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/04/walmart_employees_on_food_stamps_their_wages_aren_t_enough_to_get_by.html http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/04/walm... The Internet has gone to hell, and not in a cool “there’s a bong by the Wii, don’t have sex in front of the DJ” way. (Don’t do coke. And if you do, don’t do it where people go to poop.)