Comments on: The missing links

By: Bryan Waterman

Bryan Waterman — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:44:42 +0000

Here's one for your Goonie file, Lisa. I almost linked the "Mormon wife" episode to Adriana's polygamy post, but the whole site works here as well.

By: Adriana

Adriana — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 04:18:22 +0000

This reminded me of Farrell’s post on what we hold onto. And it reminded me (again) of how much I let go. I’m sure it’s because I live in such a small apartment. I just love getting rid of stuff and have a near pathological horror of clutter. My list of links is not only cleaned out regularly, the list of blogs is alphabetized. Submarine llife will do that to you.

By: Lisa Parrish

Lisa Parrish — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:40:00 +0000

Oh, the Punk Kittens! I love them. Also love the Wayback Machine, Nathan -- what a perfect way to track down all those fabulous, now defunct sites like the great Tomatina festival page. And I must include one more key site that I forgot in my posting: This one-of-a-kind "Family Rapture Legacy Interactive Evangelism Kit." So those who've been left behind won't be confused in addition to being damned.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:27:31 +0000

Lisa,
Your post made me review my own odd collection of bookmarks, spread across several folders with titles like “Food Stuff” (representative site: the Fauchon home page), “Random Fandom” (home of the site “Lauren Graham: Super Hottie!”), and “iPod goodies” (for when I get that Bose home player, perhaps?). How to throw this stuff away? I NEED it.

Anyhow, I too feel ‘honor bound” to mention a couple of favorites:

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/weeee.php
http://www.rathergood.com/punk_kittens/

Bear with me until I figure out how to embed links. They’re worth it.

By: Tim Wager

Tim Wager — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:32:43 +0000

Funny, fed up with having to type in enough of the URL until Mozilla completed it for me, I had just finally bookmarked The Great Whatsit moments before reading your post. Not having a Goonie folder, I was forced to decide whether it’s a blog or a journal. I went with journal, even though I know that’s not quite right.

Your post reminds me of Walter Benjamin’s contemplation of remnants of the near past — how they no longer have use value in the strict sense, but have not yet become ‘useful’ as ‘history’. It’s an odd category, one that I dearly love. What we need now is a thorough cultural analysis of the Hamster Dance.