Since everyone’s into talking about hating phones, I figured I’d throw my oar in the water too. I loved the phone right through my teenage years. I and my girlfriends would chat the night away, even though we lived two… Read More ›
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WOULD YOU PLEASE ANSWER THAT PHONE? – BY ELLIN CURLEY
The world can be divided in many ways – Republicans vs. Democrats, religious people vs. non religious people, cat people vs. dog people. Here’s another way – people who love the phone vs. people who hate it. I love talking… Read More ›
THERE’S A CODE FOR EVERTHING – Marilyn Armstrong
There is a code for everything these days. Every item in the shop, every village in the world. There’s a code for every telephone. Bar codes float through the air like fireflies. We are all zipped up. Where once we… Read More ›
TALKING ON THE PHONE – BY ELLIN CURLEY
The world can be divided in many ways – Republicans vs. Democrats, religious people vs. non religious people, cat people vs. dog people. Here’s another way – people who love the phone vs. people who hate it. I love talking… Read More ›
HUMAN VERSUS COMPUTER – BY ELLIN CURLEY
People today talk nostalgically about a time when you always dealt with human beings on the phone and not computers. We believe that humans are responsive to our specific questions and take an interest in our unique situation. Therefore they… Read More ›
ZIPPED UP
There is a code for everything today. Every item in the shop, every village in the world. There’s a code for every telephone. Bar codes float through the air like fireflies. We are all zipped up. Where once we needed… Read More ›
WHAT’S THAT NOISE?
I heard it, but it didn’t make any sense. Noise. Music. Shrill, loud music. Mozart. What does Mozart have against me? I never did anything to him … Oh. It’s the telephone. Someone — maybe something — is calling. As… Read More ›
IT’S THE PHONE …
There’s a myth circulating that senior citizens are up with the birds and asleep before sunset. An entire culture has been built on “Early Bird Specials,” because old people supposedly eat dinner by 4 pm. I eat around four, but I call it… Read More ›
EIGHT IN THE MORNING – WHY IS THE PHONE RINGING?
There’s a myth circulating about senior citizens, that we are up with the birds and asleep before sunset. An entire culture has been built on “Early Bird Specials.” Because old people purportedly eat dinner by 4pm. I eat around four,… Read More ›
CAN YOU HEAR ME? ARE YOU THERE?
Going obsolete – or maybe going backwards. I miss telephones on which you could be sure you had a connection that wouldn’t drop randomly and on which you could actually hear what someone said to you and know they could… Read More ›
Weekly Writing Challenge: Abstraction – Wires
Why do the wires run up? Are they sending messages to the sky? Always the wires have stayed in line, marching along roads like proper wires ought. Humming and buzzing, passing trees, crossing rivers, streams, highways and alleyways. Wires… Read More ›
