I saw this woman drive by the other day and she was laughing hysterically, her face all smiley and happy, it was amazing. But there was no one with her in her in the car, she was just talking on the phone. And I thought: how weird. Facial expressions are essentially involuntary; they're meant to communicate with other people, and yet they occur even in situations where other people are not present. Funny!

Maybe what is weird is that technology has made it possible for us to communicate with each other without being physically present, so we throw off smiles and laughter and angry expressions and quizzical and unhappy and bored expressions without any audience for them. Trees falling in a forest.

Weirder still are those conversations people have with themselves in the mirror (yo, other people, not me!) trying to see how they look and sound to other people, the whole Japanese mirrored rooms and karaoke booth thing where people prepare themselves for human encounters.

What bizarre creatures we are, if I landed here from another planet I wouldn't understand the need for comedy clubs, we are hilarious and strange, always, all the time.

LINK | 9:06 PM | TB

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