The images in the media are killing girls!

Those cheeky advertising boys, always playing to women's insecurities. And constantly having to see attractive women, and pornography of course. What I find most annoying though is the constant denial of the most important factor: other women and their constant transparent mind games. It sometimes seems like every woman I know has a coterie of five or six 'friends' hanging around whose only purpose is to damn everything you do with faint praise. Pointing this out won't make you popular, but fuck it, it has to be said. My mother cleans her house before the cleaning lady comes, so she won't see the mess. Yeah, of course her house is clean, in fact she's so good at cleaning you hired her. The only thing you can apparently hope for is if one of their kids is on drugs, or their boyfriend is gay so you can chuckle about it in private, even though you'd rather laugh in their face...
Luckily, you can always watch oprah, which is the same thing, but as a TV show.

Castles in the Sand

How the mighty have fallen. It's funny at first, but you begin to realise after a while how horrifyingly ephemeral the internet is. For all the concern over data floating around as search results forever, i.e. those embarassing photo's you don't want your boss to see, the real horror is the total randomness of what stays popular and what doesn't. Can you imagine having spent a good portion of your time on acquiring friends on a social networking site that becomes irrelevant? Now that the internet is here to stay, maybe it's time some serious architecture and institutions are built that manage to last until this global communication network goes the way of the dodo.