Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Radio Silence Week Slash Day

I'm offering a challenge. Hip kids should get behind this so it will turn into a full fledged thing. What I'm thinking is unplug from all communication devices for a week. This includes internet, phones, text--basically any form of messaging that doesn't involve physical paper or like direct human voice contact while you're close enough to hit someone if they say something mean. You know, space for proper decorum.

Ideally this would also mean no computer at all, cause really who is word processing at this point? Ah, but I work, you say...on a computer and say, the phone. And then you continue, what about this blog itself? Where would it go? Who would tend this dusty corner of the internet?

Well...if you would all promise not to look I would promise to not post, or to sneak the posts in either right before the shut down date or after the return date. And then when you came back, it would be like they had been there all along.

But seriously. I'm thinking pick a week and get everyone who can feasibly to cut off all of their new fangled com devices to do so. Start it on a Sunday. Then on the next Saturday even the worker bees who couldn't do for a week join in and shut it off. And then just have a big party at some earlier determined local. No one would have to call ahead to be sure that you were there. No one would have to call once there to see where you were. No one could. There would be a plan. And people would all just come on down. And it would be a great party. And no one who wasn't there couldn't get texts about what they were missing out on and come running over. No. Hell, how about no cameras either. Just a party that exists once and is gone. Nothing captured cept for faulty broken memories all misremembering it all.

Whose in?

2 comments:

messenger said...

I'm in! Absolutely. MySpace doesn't count, right?

Ciana said...

SO IN. Can we mesh throwing our cell phones off of GG Bridge into this somehow?

What a relief this would be -- it could save us all from blindness and cancer. Oh, the possibilities!