Frivolous Use of Internet Time and Utility
Some guy has a blog entry and some tips in "Entrepreneur's Start-Ups Magazine" that rants about the time we waste on the internet. His comments made me sad and defensive.
Proper tongue wagging commences:
What? Frivolous? Jokes? Say it isn't so. I refuse to believe any of it. I live for jokes (well, jokes and rolling down this hill next to my office). I categorize and cross-reference my friends' utility (er...um...purpose in my life) based on the number, quality, frequency, and laughability of the jokes they send me. (I also keep a chart that details hugs from friends with the same categories.)
And another thing internet research ("googling" or "google") is away of life for me. Just yesterday I started brainstorming the kinds of jobs I might be able to obtain that would allow me to google -- google to my heart is content that is. (One of my favorite google tasks is checking on the three other people with my exact same first and last name. Trust I know a lot about the others -- "Kito" "Robinson". Then I plan an imaginery party for us all to meet. We'll get along so well and have such wonderful and thought provoking conversations that we will create a society. I mean a club. It will be so much fun. Just the four of us. And we all know what they say about the number four.)
Okay I think I have an addiction to mindless frivolous internet searching and jokes. But I'm American. We have to have our frivolous stuff and we have to have it fast. Right? The internet is the wave of the future. Mark my words. Blogging is so much fun.
posted by Fun Time Kito @ 4/18/2006 07:19:00 AM
5 Comments:
Search away Kito, search away. As for me, my down fall is blogging. If only I could find a job that lets me blog to my hearts content.
Did I tell you that the two filmmakers that I met at a festival in L.A. want to cast me in their respective films. Both have lawyers in their film. Kind of ironic that I go and happily play a lawyer. I ended up giving JE, one of the above-mentioned filmmaker, technical advise (or information) re his character's legal career. Kind of cool. He had lots more questions about legal blah, blah, blah and history of black lawyers. Did me some research and got him the answers. Subsequently, I've asked to get a credit as legal consultant. I'll keep you posted. The other filmmaker, DM, wants me to look over the contracts he uses. I did me some research and gonna have some answers.
Wow, that sounds great. You are really living up to your moniker. You really have the look Kito, "You caught to be in pictures." "I'm ready for my close up Mr. DeVille," and let me look over that contract while I'm at it.
I have been reading interviews at Actor's Life and it's amazing how people's careers started out. The website interviews casting directors, actors, agents, and directors. Some people swear by a set formula for "making it." I think I decided to read all of the interviews because one of the first interviews I read was one of those formula people -- you have to have a reel -- don't go to L.A. until you have x,y, and z.
Then there are people with attitude that seems more like mine and they are just out there and having fun and living. That story reminds me of a photography exhibit I saw called Elder Grace. The photographer took pictures of a bunch of old people and couples. I think for the most part the people are blacks living in New York. Most of the people migrated from here or there during the 50s or some old time.
The photographer asked the people to tell something about themselves. I honestly looked at those faces, the eyes, and I was able to articulate something about the person's life, love, fear -- character. Then I read the interview of the person from the placard next to the photo. It was amazingly weird how accurate I was. The museum gave away a poster advertising the exhibit. I love the couple in the photo -- they have so much love and peace.
I saw the "Elder Grace" exhibit at the Jazz and Negro Baseball Museums in Kansas City, Missouri. I don't remember the name of the art gallery. The project encompasses folks other than black folks.
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