Lisa D > Recent Status Updates

“How’s the amnesia, forgotten anything interesting lately?”

“Ubiquitous… like the airwaves, through the air, it’s ubiquitous… that you never-seem to care, how ridiculous-ly I’m yearning, into what a sap I’m turning”

I struggled a bit with chapter 1. I think writing about prostitution is difficult. He quotes Dominique Strauss-Kahn who was the managing director of the IMF who called women “equipment” in text messages. It made me sick to my stomach.

Chapter 2 seems to be going better. I know part of the purpose is to look at markets that some might find repugnant. Chapter 2 is focusing on ivf

“You can’t go rescuing somebody and then just forget it - Ojibe belief is, interfere with somebody’s life and you’re responsible for them forever- “

The whole discussion of how Wisconsin ended up being decheesed after the formation of unilever is hilarious

“Cheese, oh to be sure, cheese is alive. Self-aware, actually, maybe not exactly the way we are, but still more than some clever simulation. We’re at a pivot point here in the history of food science, a strange new form of life that was deliberately invented, like Doctor Frankenstein or something -‘

“Your country calls.” “Line’s busy.” There’s a lot of humor in this quote and some I think new generations will miss as they don’t get the busy signal anymore. It makes me think of jfk and ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country….i think most people have the response in shadow ticket… line’s busy.