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Darren Wershler's Facebook Status Updates

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Darren "kept hearing people fighting & making the kinds of sounds mom & dad used to make before he moved out, that scary grunting & yelling sound."

Sat, 2010-06-05 10:34

"kept hearing people fighting & making the kinds of sounds mom & dad used to make before he moved out, that scary grunting & yelling sound."

Darren -- seriously. It's like Marty Scorsese took up children's lit instead of film.

Sat, 2010-06-05 10:31

-- seriously. It's like Marty Scorsese took up children's lit instead of film.

Darren -- terrifying Nixon-era kids' books: My Dad Lives in a Downtown Hotel, by Peggy Mann http://bit.ly/xpbh #noneedtomakeitupitsreal.

Sat, 2010-06-05 10:29

-- terrifying Nixon-era kids' books: My Dad Lives in a Downtown Hotel, by Peggy Mann http://bit.ly/xpbh #noneedtomakeitupitsreal.

Darren -- Tetris Tetris Everywhere: a Flickr set http://bit.ly/cx3N69.

Sat, 2010-06-05 09:15

-- Tetris Tetris Everywhere: a Flickr set http://bit.ly/cx3N69.

Darren -- Arizona elementary school demands Black & Latino students' faces on mural be changed to white http://bit.ly/a8wBaX RT @brycej.

Fri, 2010-06-04 19:05

-- Arizona elementary school demands Black & Latino students' faces on mural be changed to white http://bit.ly/a8wBaX RT @brycej.

Darren -- evidently a Montreal citizen named Cobra Cock has a very large budget for spray paint.

Fri, 2010-06-04 19:01

-- evidently a Montreal citizen named Cobra Cock has a very large budget for spray paint.

Darren -- Okay, I was the right age when it came out, and The Goonies was a crap film. #thereisaidit.

Fri, 2010-06-04 17:43

-- Okay, I was the right age when it came out, and The Goonies was a crap film. #thereisaidit.

Darren -- Civilization = Sapporo Premium available on every corner. Beautiful silver cylinders from the future. Oh, and they're full of beer.

Fri, 2010-06-04 16:10

-- Civilization = Sapporo Premium available on every corner. Beautiful silver cylinders from the future. Oh, and they're full of beer.

Darren -- 8 days of house hunting = big fat nothing. Frustrated beyond belief.

Fri, 2010-06-04 15:49

-- 8 days of house hunting = big fat nothing. Frustrated beyond belief.

Darren -- tiny field notes: Max's musical tastes = Neil Young (predictably, Harvest, & oddly, the Tonight's the Night acetates), and Nina Simone.

Fri, 2010-06-04 11:44

-- tiny field notes: Max's musical tastes = Neil Young (predictably, Harvest, & oddly, the Tonight's the Night acetates), and Nina Simone.

Darren -- Batteries from 200 BC Baghdad: http://bit.ly/14fOdU.

Fri, 2010-06-04 10:24

-- Batteries from 200 BC Baghdad: http://bit.ly/14fOdU.

Darren -- 4chan mu/niversity: a chart of the faculty http://bit.ly/9zE2e9.

Fri, 2010-06-04 10:20

-- 4chan mu/niversity: a chart of the faculty http://bit.ly/9zE2e9.

Darren -- The MIT Science Fiction Society reviews Twilight: http://bit.ly/ddhHq2.

Thu, 2010-06-03 12:13

-- The MIT Science Fiction Society reviews Twilight: http://bit.ly/ddhHq2.

Darren -- more handmade No Parking signs in Montreal than anywhere I've ever seen.

Wed, 2010-06-02 13:15

-- more handmade No Parking signs in Montreal than anywhere I've ever seen.

Darren -- on nostalgia for the pre-gentrified city: no baby without the bathwater, i.e. mixed use = sweatshops + crap wages http://bit.ly/91H3GO.

Tue, 2010-06-01 10:26

-- on nostalgia for the pre-gentrified city: no baby without the bathwater, i.e. mixed use = sweatshops + crap wages http://bit.ly/91H3GO.

Darren -- Thoughtful analysis of Wired's iPad app: is a [HUGE] 500mb app that handles like a 90s CD-ROM really the future? http://bit.ly/9uJwRE.

Tue, 2010-06-01 10:08

-- Thoughtful analysis of Wired's iPad app: is a [HUGE] 500mb app that handles like a 90s CD-ROM really the future? http://bit.ly/9uJwRE.

Darren -- Smokescreen runs Flash videos without the plugin: http://bit.ly/dpsW90 ... your move, Steve Jobs.

Tue, 2010-06-01 09:56

-- Smokescreen runs Flash videos without the plugin: http://bit.ly/dpsW90 ... your move, Steve Jobs.

Darren -- if you're at #congress10 take liquor and snacks to @mcpalassio and the other canuck booksellers deep in the bowels of Concordia.

Sat, 2010-05-29 15:50

-- if you're at #congress10 take liquor and snacks to @mcpalassio and the other canuck booksellers deep in the bowels of Concordia.

Darren -- call for a ban on the use of the colon in all English lit paper titles for at LEAST a decade #congress10.

Sat, 2010-05-29 15:45

-- call for a ban on the use of the colon in all English lit paper titles for at LEAST a decade #congress10.

Darren -- house hunting day 2.

Fri, 2010-05-28 10:32

-- house hunting day 2.

Darren Wershler (aka Darren Wershler-Henry) is the author or co-author of ten books, most recently, The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting (McClelland & Stewart, Cornell UP), and apostrophe (ECW), with Bill Kennedy. Darren is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, and is also part of the faculty at the CFC Media Lab TELUS Interactive Art & Entertainment Program.

alienated.net is the most visible part of Darren's brain.

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