Word: everydayness
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...goes dark until Feb. 11, when this is posted: "My baby... I miss you. I'm here without you and I hate it." At that time, Grove was visiting a tech school in Florida with his father. Tess replies, "Baby I miss you too... It's hard to do everyday things without crying..." At this point, according to police documents, Tess was alone in the house with her dead mother stuffed in a car in the garage. In a P.S. Tess says, "Your gonna be really happy when you come home! Your wifey cleaned up the house...
Miraculous new communications technologies have suddenly appeared, transforming everyday life. Everything is moving discombobulatingly fast. Globalization accelerates. Wall Street booms. Outside San Francisco, astounding fortunes are made overnight, out of nothing, by plucky nobodies. The new media are scurrilous and partisan. Marketing spin and advertising extend their influence as never before. A fresh urban-youth subculture has emerged, rude and vibrant, entertainment-fixated and violence-glorifying. Christian conservatives are furiously battling cultural decadence, and one popular sect insists that the end days are nigh. Ferocious anti-immigration sentiment is on the rise. Both major American political parties seem pathetically unable...
...None of Cutmore-Scott’s energetic rants were singularly revolutionary or mind-blowing. Much like Carrie Bradshaw’s columns, they were simply fun and insightful observations about everyday aspects of everyday college life—snippets that could be taken out of any dining hall conversation, really...
...trust cows more than chemists." For my part, I do not. I will still go to Whole Foods to buy the mass-produced Organic Food Bars I eat for breakfast when I don't have time for eggs. I am happy that food scientists are finding ways to produce everyday products like cereal with organic ingredients. (How about organic Froot Loops? I have a weakness for Froot Loops late at night.) But when it comes to my basic ingredients--literally, my "whole" foods rather than my convenience foods--I would still rather know the person who collects my eggs...
...ecology, a severe branch of the movement that believes in restoring the original ecological balance of the earth. Tompkins is fond of reminding listeners that unless runaway consumerism is halted "we humans will be building ourselves a beautiful coffin in space called Planet Earth." He sees danger signs in everyday objects. "Laptops, I use them, but they are very damaging to the environment. If we don't change our ways, you'll be left with a laptop and a dead planet...