Chris Abraham

Comments (5)

1. Dan wrote:

   Hey.
   The medium is the message? That’s cute. I didn’t take the time to read anything on your page, because obviously, the message is: orange headings, white background, black letters, grey sidebars.
   Your website’s little slogan is fucking stupid. I just wanted to let you know that. I’m gonna assume that at some point you read the little phenomology explanation on the Obey website and swiped your phrase from that site in admiration and an attempt to associate yourself with a seemingly cryptic and inexplicably non-conformist message like that.
   Trust me, it doesn’t apply to your website. Take it down or you’ll always look like a copycat posing stupid bitch.
   Sorry if this offended you, but posers offend me, especially when they publish their poser ideas so other people can accidentally stumble across them and expose themselves to something as trite and annoying.
   -Dan

   Tuesday, May 24, 2005 at 9:33 pm #
2. Chris Abraham wrote:

   Charming. The only person I am copying, my undereducated and poorly-informed friend is Marshall McLuhan…

   In other words, “Because the Medium is the Message” is mine,

   “The medium is the message” might be Obey Giant (and incidentally, I run Memes.org, which is all about the “Andre the Giant has a Posse”) but the full quote by Marshall McLuhan is:

   “The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.”
   – Marshall Mcluhan

   So, ergo, you are right, I am copying (and extending), and you are wrong, as I am not coying from Obey Giant.

   Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 8:54 am #
3. Mark Harrison wrote:

   aw, c’mon… you gotta give him the “posing stupid bitch” part at least, don’t you?

   Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 9:56 am #
4. Chris Abraham wrote:

   I didn’t say he was wrong about that, but I prefer to refer to it as being derivative or even prissy little bitch. Posing is fine. Ignorant maybe. Stupid? We, sure. Thanks Mark.

   Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 10:13 am #
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