[ExI] the road home: RE: this is me in another forty years...

[Kelly Anderson]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:20 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>>...On Behalf Of Damien Broderick
> Subject: Re: [ExI] the road home: RE: this is me in another forty years...
>
> On 2/27/2011 12:24 PM, spike wrote:
> Earlier today someone commented (Kelly?) about the internet being a poor
> medium for irony.

email and Mailing lists, specifically. Youtube is a GREAT medium for
irony, just look up Steven Colbert... :-)

> It can be, but it needs to be exaggerated to the point it
> loses much of its edge.  I think of it as related to the early silent
> movies, where they needed to express emotion using the face and body
> language.  They had to greatly exaggerate every subtle nuance.  You can see
> remnants of that style in the visual comedy of early television (think
> Lucille Ball, or Gleason and Carney doing Kramden and Norton.  Those guys
> could crack you up with the sound off.)

Emoticons can help... a little :-)

-Kelly