Here's a good example of how technology can ruin your day. So I belong to this listserv - ... POPSHOTS: Friendless, Hostile, an

So I belong to this listserv - essentially an old-school email app in which a group of people keep up a running thread of conversation. This particular listserv is very exclusive and insular. It's comprised of exactly eight people, one of whom doesn't exist (a long story). We're all good friends on the list, having either gone to school together, shared apartments, or slept with the same people at various points in the past.

The idea with the listserv is to try to stay a part of each other's day-to-day lives, since we're all scattered in various cities now. There's actually very little actual sentiment on the list, though. We've adopted Larry David's philosophy for the Seinfeld scripts - "no hugging, no sharing." Mostly we make a lot of arcane in-jokes and obscure pop culture references. It's good fun, although the one-upsmanship of trading dirty jokes with creative people means you really have to watch yourself at work. One time I caught my boss looking at my screen, the blood slowly draining from her face. Someone on the list, thinking it funny, had sent an email with the all-cap subject line: YOUR GERMAN SCAT PORN NEWSLETTER IS HERE!

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