Sitting on a virtual couch, with our lovely hostess DDD (good thing her last name wasn't Thompson…), I can’t help but feel caught between the invitation to potato(e)-dom(dumb?) in which I veg and listen to these smart people and the need to embody the speed and efficiency so often referred to in the book we’re reviewing by frantically, phrenetically revving through ideas before they’ve fully formed inside by head.  My mind whirls, my body stagnates, the world turns, technology advances.  Looming.  Embracing.  Dizzying. I watch the words as they whiz by.  Why is being IN a MOO a whole different experience than reading a MOO in retrospect?  The conversation never seems as vibrant when it’s flat and published rather than instantaneous and (almost) verbal.  Holmevik and Haynes describe it as the difference between the pressure of living right now and the pressure of making meaning of our living in the now (218). 

Go to the WHERE . . . if you dare . . .

-beckster