Jessica Coen

Sometimes, anyhow.

Wednesday, October 14

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spiers:

jessicacoen:

Virginia Heffernan’s book is the book we all want to write, but can’t. No pleasures, indeed! I’m a little sad, honestly. Going to spend the rest of the day staring at my hands and this filthy keyboard. White keyboards, what the fuck.

I think Virginia’s book will be good, but I can pretty definitively say that there is no part of me, not a single molecule, that wants to write a book about the Internet.

I shouldn’t have said “we all,” as I was really speaking for myself and, say, two or three other nerds. This is really about me, and my issues. Like a real blog!

(And, Elizabeth, I’d argue that you might be interested if it were for the right amount, and if it were taking some kind of interesting socio-literary or heady-smart-person-economics approach to the whole beast. But I don’t know what I mean, exactly, because I haven’t had a fully fleshed-out thought in ages. Which brings us back to the main problem.)

| Posted at 5:57pm

  1. ashien-dean reblogged this from jessicacoen
  2. fek reblogged this from jessicacoen and added:
    guess I’d like...this book, but in
  3. jessicacoen reblogged this from spiers and added:
    I shouldn’t have said “we all,” as I was really speaking for myself and, say, two or three other nerds. This is really...
  4. spiers reblogged this from jessicacoen and added:
    I think Virginia’s book will be good, but I can pretty definitively say that there is no part of me, not a single...
  5. brianvan reblogged this from jessicacoen and added:
    I have always claimed that I would never waste my time with a thoughtful book project until I could find a full-time...
  6. ninety9 reblogged this from lindsayrobertson and added:
    Hamilton being wrong, but I...Heffernan being write. Much
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