Radical empathy
Trying to come to terms with this madman I used to know. If anyone has a Kindle or iPad and manages to get through this 26,000-word piece I would love to know what you think.
I had been emailing this girl for weeks. I stumbled onto her tumblr through an acquaintance and found her thoughtful, incisive, and full of good wisdom. I thought we might be friends, and had talked it over with my girlfriend, Eloise, before I began emailing her. Eloise was alright with the idea,…
An education
- 11: 15 AM
- ok, here's what i want for chanukkah
- you have to give me a lesson in tumblr
- Katherine: yo ask david
- idk anything
- me: really!?
- Katherine: tumblr is for kids
- and pictures!
- tumblr is all about pictures
- i'm text-based
- 11: 16 AM
- me: i have a tumblr and i get how to publish but what i don't get is how to follow and just basically know what the fuck IS GOING ON
- how do you work it?
- Katherine: it's predicated on the idea that you have a vast amount of free time
- me: oh, that makes sense
- Katherine: seriously
- i can't name any grown ups who use it
- 11: 17 AM
- I think it's a way to reach an alternate group of "commenters"
- me: which is why we're becoming obsolette. that's my point
- Katherine: ify ou post an excerpt of a story with a large photo
- and a link
- people will reblog click etc who wouldn't normally read observer
- but it's not even worth following other people
- 11: 18 AM
- me: not even to find good writers and/or young girls who want to sleep with editors?
- Katherine: because you'll see who reblogs you, and i'ts not like you have time to kill reblogging w/ witty comment
- me: jk
- Katherine: i don't even think there are good writers!
- except david
- who admits that tumblr is a bad platform for him but stays on it due to his teen girl following
- me: oh, really? but choire and balk are all over it. they understand something i don'tl. and i need to know what it is
- 11: 19 AM
- Katherine: no they're not1
- they post like, a photo to it
- or a link with witty comment
- and watch their supplicants reblog
- me: supplicants. right...
- 11: 20 AM
- i think i should post this entire chat to tumblr
- Katherine: NOW YOU GET IT
I met these guys the other night drank the Kool-Aid on Occupy Wall Street.
Peter Falk in Husbands. Great, great movie.
Your move, God.
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