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12/15/2010

Speaking of which

Frazz
Today's "Frazz" dovetails nicely with yesterday's rant on popular culture.

I've got little to add except that I've bought card stock and printer ink but am somewhat at a loss for what to put on a card, since, between email, Facebook and blogging, I'm as much in touch with nearly everyone I know as if we all lived in a dormitory. And I'm not sure I've got mailing addresses for very many of them anyway. (I've had two requests in recent days for my own postal address from people to whom I am quite close.)

The other is that, while I enjoy creating long, argumentative rants to comment on social and cultural issues, I remain in awe of Jef Mallett's quiet ability to consistently and economically make his point within the confines of a few well-crafted panels.

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ronnie

"...between email, Facebook and blogging, I'm as much in touch with nearly everyone I know as if we all lived in a dormitory."

I had the exact same experience writing Christmas cards this year. There was no point in chatty little notes because nearly everyone I was sending them to knows pretty much everything that's gone on in the last year between email and my blog. I just opened one from an older foster sibling who lives out west that included one of the much-maligned "holiday letters", for which I was enormously grateful because our interactions are limited pretty much to - Christmas card exchanges. Everybody else, especially the e-friends I'm in regular context with, got a "Merry Christmas and all the best in 2011", which felt oddly brief and formal but which was really all that was necessary.

However I am moved to make sure I write my foster brother a longer letter after Christmas and update him on our lives, for reals. Snail-mail relationships are hard, but reading his holiday letter made me realize how out-of-touch I was with him and his family and how worth it it is to make the effort.

Posted by: ronnie | 12/15/2010 at 07:29 PM

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