Get Out of Cities, Return to the Trees
So amidst all the complaining about Facebook’s privacy policy and how it gives out your information to advertisers and BLA BLA BLA I uncovered a far more insidious threat.
I am seeing the Twitter feeds of people whose Twitter feeds I DO NOT FOLLOW, EVEN WHEN I AM NOT USING TWITTER.
I pop over to Entertainment Weekly, mostly just force of habit, and I read this, on EW’s scrolling feed of vaguely-famous-people-with-Twitter-accounts:
“SOLEIL MOON FRYE (Moonfrye): Question of the day: What’s your current favorite song?”
I did not seek out the current thoughts of a former child actress. And yet, there it was. My thought process, in three parts:
1) I don’t care about Soleil Moon Frye. I have ZERO attachment to her. I don’t hate her, though I remember not much liking ‘Punky Brewster’ as a kid, and
2) I’m fairly certain that knowing Soleil Moon Frye’s current favorite song – or indeed, any of the responses from her 1.4 MILLION followers – will not noticeably improve my day, and yet
3) I still kind of want to let her know that I’m really enjoying “Southern Pacifica” by Josh Ritter.
And that’s about the time when this weekend’s camping trip was more than a vacation, and it was more than great timing since I seem to have reached my absolute limit of web-based information – it was a NECESSARY REMOVAL of the internet from my system for a couple of blessed days.
I need an internet detox that can only come with sitting by a lake and failing to catch fish.
So, for that, I thank you, Ms. Moon Frye.
May 28, 2010 at 6:19 pm
SHE USED TO HAVE REALLY BIG BOOBS.
May 28, 2010 at 6:24 pm
Nice obscure Blur reference
May 28, 2010 at 6:48 pm
Yesterday, I went outside, rubbed my eyes and looked around…at trees. And sky. Birds and things. It was…magical. I spend hours typing and devising ways to protect people and this stuff from our tendency toward destruction (okay and maybe some hours looking at “Youtube” videos. Internet is the time killer, but in the way I’d imagine heroin to be; it feels so good while you’re doing it, even though you know watching one more fan montage set to a “Neil Diamond” song is probably very bad for your health). But I hadn’t actually looked at nature in a while. It made me feel…happy.
(NOT OBSCURE! Just totally awesome! TQP forever!)
May 28, 2010 at 7:24 pm
@Moff: Wait, used to? What happened to them?
May 28, 2010 at 8:08 pm
@braak: They were hurting her back, so she had surgery. I guess they just chop them right off or something.
May 29, 2010 at 10:55 am
If you can work in a reference to “swallows in a heatwave” I’ll be really impressed!
May 31, 2010 at 3:09 pm
@Moff: How do you know so much about her boobs? And for someone who knows so much about them, you know nothing about breast reduction. Which is what she must have had, not a double mastectomy. Sheesh.
May 31, 2010 at 6:36 pm
@dagocutey: It was in the news! It was a long, long time ago. And no, I’m pretty positive they just take a giant butcher knife and chop them right off for that kind of procedure. Exactly like a vasectomy, except for ladies.
May 31, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Exactly.
May 31, 2010 at 8:26 pm
I was also very aware of her boob reduction dealy, thanks to a People Magazine at the dentist’s from like ten years ago.
Oh, those dark ages, when People Magazine was our only answer for the idle thought, “Wonder what Soleil Moon Frye is up to these days?”
May 31, 2010 at 8:36 pm
It was seriously like the one and only thing she really made the news for after Punky Brewster for a long time, I guess simply because she had been a preadolescent child star and no one had really thought of her in a boob way. That was the day America lost its innocence.
May 31, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Or Vietnam. Vietnam could have also been the day.
June 2, 2010 at 9:20 am
Wait. Soleil Moon-Frye has 1.4 MILLION followers?! WTF????
June 2, 2010 at 12:21 pm
I enjoy that the first ad after this post is for “privacy trees.”
June 3, 2010 at 12:57 am
Yes, Deb, I think that got a little lost in the shuffle, so let us reiterate this frankly UNFATHOMABLE YET UNASSAILABLE FACT:
Soleil Moon Frye has 1.4 MILLION FOLLOWERS on Twitter.