I hear ya. I have never understood my friends who unwind from a long day of work by staying right in front of the screen for four hours of "World of Warcraft" or what have you.

But for me, it's almost as much about physical as mental health. How do these people avoid getting repetitive stress injuries? Nobody ever got carpal tunnel syndrome from a newspaper...

Newspaper?

I thought it was a series of tubes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes

Now I'm just confused...

Series of Tubes, eh? Now I've heard everything!

Next you are going to tell me that people use the internet to post amusing cat pictures...!

Well, your half right. Originally it was developed as a means of, in the event of a nuclear war, allowing the seamless transmission of amusing cat pictures. But having been co-opted by big business, it has now become, primarily, a means to, in the event of a nuclear war, let people know that their taste in music/movies and fashion SUCK!

"Who goes home after a long day of work and reads the newspaper?"

I, being a lucky one as for now, do - not only at home, but even throughout the 'long day of work' you mentioned; but i think it's more like a pathological behavior. that's pretty much a lie, but i take the papers i read as new ones, and they change their shape from mere articles to news - but it's still somehow an illness or a deviated ongoings paired with a distorted idea of what's new and what's not.
"All that is new is, by that fact, automatically traditional.", who said this? i remember Monsieur Godard using it in his Bande à Part, but i can't remember where Odile took it from. nevertheless to say, i'm going to put it: nope, i'm not. just suggest me a nickname to use - i feel like i'll write here more than what you're expecting, and the one i'm using now it's way too ugly.

"Italian #3" is not yet taken. Or "Chuckles #2."

You can also not be anonymous, which is something I have to deal with every day.

Damn, Marxy, you don't like fish OR a good long soak in お風呂?! I think Alin will agree with me here, your participant observer cred is slipping!

I like a good long soak as much as they next guy, but nothing gets you ready for a day like a hot shower in the morning.

I like a brisk shower as much as they next guy, but nothing gets you ready for a night like a hot bath in the evening.

That is the best of both worlds- pretending for the moment that there are only two!

Thing is, the Internet in Japan is absolutely not a "newspaper" in that none of the major newspapers offer their real content online for free (except maybe the English sites and Sankei, but the Sankei especially doesn't count). It might be worth it for a subscription, but if you want in-depth print news you have to actually buy the Asahi or any of the other anachronisms out there (except on newspaper holidays since the world has to stand still one day a month or else the delivery people would die of exhaustion).

Speaking of which...where's the RSS gone from neomarxisme??

I have no idea. I think this site is falling apart bit by bit.

terminal decline I guess...

terminal decline I guess...

You have just described my ENTIRE LIFE down to the last detail. So much of what I do is connected with the computer, and at times I get heartily sick of it, longing for nothing more than to retreat to a bosky glade and lie in a field for three weeks. Actually I might do that this summer; anyone know any nice fields in central Europe which can be lain in? (With wi-fi access, of course... ;) )

You read Senken too?

Dear jimineuropa

We act for the registered proprietor of the website "bosky-glade.com". It has come to our client's attention that you have been using our client's registered name "bosky-glade.com". without valid authorisation from our client. Furthermore, you have wilfully libled our client by associating our client's webiste "bosky-glade.com" with the term "lie". Our client does not lie. Unless you promise, in writing to cease unauthorised use of our clienT7s intellectual property and to print a retraction of your libels within 5 working days, our client will be forced take all measures necessary, including but not limited to litigation,against you.

Welcome to teh intertron.

Is http://www.pliink.com/mt/marxy/index.xml no longer working or something?

I had an XML!?

RSS Feed: Firefox picks it up automatically, and it can also be found by looking at the site's source code. Many sites (like clast) have a thing on the sidebar for it, but not this one.

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