Saturday, October 13, 2007

Oh Art - where have thou gone?

I think I've figured out what blogs essentially are - blogs are the restroom doors & walls of our times. Yes, I said it. Remember the time when a visit to the school or a college restroom would greet us with classic one liners and jokes carefully inscribed on the doors? Sometimes crude caricatures would accompany the text; telephone numbers of exes who left miles before the altar were found aplenty (many relationships started courtesy a pissed off lover and a lover who went to take a piss); I've even seen pathos-dripping poetry on those doors; and above all gibberish that made no sense. Sounds familiar? Yes!!! We've all seen blogs that touch on some or all of these categories (at least mine does). Need I say more??

With the advent of blogs, all of us now have a creative vent. Earlier the only way to release this dormant creative energy was to leave carvings on stinking bathroom walls & doors. But now the times are different. "Progressive" as many would term it. Now all we have to do is go to one of the free blogging services and Hola - we have our own lil toilet wall ready in minutes.

So I kept staring at the walls of a restroom i went to when i paid a visit to a city college, hoping to find something worthwhile on it. Hoping that some genius had left a piece of his mind out there to amuse me. Alas, there was nothing. Like Paris Hilton's closet of non-party clothes - it was all empty! A few stray occurrences of the word "Sex" appeared on the dirty green, but even that bored writer had given up midway. There were no cartoons, no one liners, no philosophies. Nothing funny to entertain me. Nothing worthwhile to plagiarize.

"All those folks must have started their own blogs," I said to myself. "I Better find them!"

2 comments:

PEARL OF THE SEA said...

U're absolutely right-somehow a blog gives u the freedom to express thoughts which we would hesitate to otherwise-not that they are always bad thoughts or harmful thoughts -but simply coz we're afraid of being judged by others-The WHAT WILL THEY THINK 'syndrome-it's another matter that "THEY"don't care a damn what u do ......(good topic fr a blog)shd write one on that fr starters!!!!

Skywalker said...

good thought...do share a link to your blog once u start :-) Cheers

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