internet literature

Saturday, May 17, 2008

poem inspired by a message left on my facebook wall

if gary larson had facebook he would enjoy it.
he would look at his profile and laugh.
he would type things on people's walls that were border line insulting and yet remain unseen in physical form.
gary larson would like facebook because he could still be very fat and eat junk food out of plastic wrappings but have the full social dexterity of visiting all his 'friend's' profiles.
all of the pictures he is tagged in would be taken by himself though. he would be the definition of a 'loser'.
gary larson would be the wittiest facebooker in the whole world. he would make comics about his friends's 'identities' being dependent on what they show themselves doing in their 'photos' section. he would make a comic where a person oblivious to 'dog porn' being a choice of 'favorite movies', secretly entered in their profile by their snickering pet dog, while they are shown outside mowing the lawn with an old fashioned mower that doesn't use gasoline. he would tag himself in the comic as the person oblivious to his pet dog editing his profile page.
the significance of creating the image of gary larson with a facebook account is that gary larson would probably use facebook in a way that it was never intended to be used. for that reason both facebook and gary larson will make it into the encyclopedia.

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