What we learned last week.

Watching The Social Network, a clever movie dramatizing the creation of Facebook, mainly confirmed what all of us already knew.

Social networking as a whole has a lot to do with drama, compromising statements/photos, dumb posts and also social awkwardness. For example, Mark Zuckerberg's defense for his and Facebook's coolness and influence?

"I created poking!"

Oh, yes, and by the way, Justin Timberlake was instrumental in Facebook's popularity.

Small-town Oklahoma.

the sparrow perched on the pale green truck

twitches, alone,

sings

freedom

but will never range

outside of these horizons.

“they all want out,”

she says,

“but it’s like

a magnet, and

they always

come

back.”

Anadarko.

Hopelessness tastes

like red dirt

and it

smells like

cigarettes

and asphalt

on Fridays

in empty parking

lots with empty

nights and empty

pockets and empty

minds.

Helplessness looks

like a mirror

and it

tastes like

silence.

Young art in the land of the red man.

Have you ever wondered what the word would be like if buffalo had become the dominant species?
This question has also burned in my mind.
Thankfully for us, the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition has resolved to answer that question for us in Momentum, an art exhibition Saturday, March 5 at the OKC Farmers' Market. For $10 online and $15 at the door, it's worth a peek at that buffalo dominance.

Starts at 8, features a couple of bands that sound maybe decent (from Myspace). I'll be there, seeking emotional fulfillment through alternative buffalo history and garlic skins in pouches.

Don't get it? You must not appreciate art.

Just for funsies.

Favorite biblical misquotes, both here in Anadarko and there in Edmond:

Sexual immortality.
(sexual immorality)

Reconciliation for antiquity.
(reconciliation for iniquity)

Year of Jewbilee.
(year of Jubilee)

"And Jonah got really upset and said, 'I thought you said you were gonna knock this taco stand down.' And God was like, they're repenting. And there's a lot of cattle down there I have to think about."
(the story of Jonah)

UCO Prop 1.

Proposition 1: raising student fees by $10.75/credit hour, more than doubling the current rate. Also known as Proposition: "We need a better football team."

It's not that I'm against funding athletics. I just don't actually, you know, have the money to fund athletics. And if the other 17,000 students at UCO find themselves in the same boat, then a few extra hundred dollars a semester probably matters.

Maybe if the money were going to the library, or to improving seats in that awkward stadium-seating room in the Mass Comm building, or to building more parking lots - maybe then I'd think a little differently. But "athletics" sounds so vague, and so unlikely to benefit my interests.

I voted no. But then, I'm graduating.

I do wish the question weren't so difficult to find on the uconnect. One student senator in my linguistics class told us last week that the link to vote would replace the picture of the week for a day, but I guess image space was just too precious to forfeit to Proposition 1. Good form, UCO?