Atomictumor

Lets review some Google search terms that led the wayward here for the month of September, shall we?

• atomictumor
  Well, I guess that makes a certain amount of sense.
• don t tase me bro
  been getting a LOT of these lately…
• jigglygirls
  I was trying to write a post, and thinking of some kinda generic pornish name, and came up with jigglygirls. I haven’t researched to see if there is in fact a jigglygirls.com, but damn, if there isn’t, somebody might wanna go ahead and register it…
• computers internet blog
  Well, I guess that’s technically correct…
• itunes has detected a problem with your audio configuration
  Lots of people look for this one too. I think Bos had some trouble with it.
  My solution:
  Delete iTunes.
• posted
  Posted? Posted what? This one confuses me.
• naked high schoolers
  Where???
• getting around blocks
  Sounds like the name of a good children’s book.
• grocery store bugs
  Yeesh.
• don t tase me bor
  Bor, from Tolkien? Or did they mean Boris?
  

  I don’t think he’s going to be tasing anybody…

• april
  Actually, like 7 out of the 12 months of the year are represented on this list.  Odd.  How would somebody searching for a month end up here?  The mind boggles.
• david beckham sucks
  Damn right.
• useless
  See, I’m entirely proud that somebody searched for the word “useless” and ended up here.
• inventor of the computer motherboard
  Right here.
• burning hallucinogenic mushroons
  Duuuuude.
• goats pee on themselves
  …

  ooooookay.

• be warned! the nature of your oppression is the aesthetic of our anger
  Ahhh, Crass, with your big words, and your angry, late 70’s, anarchopacifism.
  “They sell us love as divinity, when its only a social obscenity… underneath we’re all lovable!”
  To be 16 again…
• those who survived the san francisco earthquake said thank god i m still alive. but of course those who died their lives will never be the same again.
  Somebody doesn’t seem to understand how Google works.
• where is my cervix
  Somebody doesn’t understand how something else works.
• im gonna do your mom
  Wow.  That’s rather blunt.
• what did the doormouse say?
  Dude, don’t leave me hanging…

Only a year or two after it started up, Oak Ridge’s online mind has melted down.

Several of the local blogs have been inactive for months or just outright shut down.  The online forums have become one sided pile-on’s, with people jumping on their favorite rants, throwing out few new ideas, or any kind of postive feedback.

Last year, I saw hope in it, that so many people in this normally fractious town are getting together on a common pedestal, disagreeing as necessary, but generally trying to get a point across.  Now I’m really just kinda seeing static.

Problem is, this reflects Oak Ridge’s mind as a whole.  The town has always been one, for the decade or so I’ve been here at least, to hunker down into camps, almost like the idiotic blue/red mentality that has hamstrung politics in this country for so long.  The same people who pile on board one topic are likely to pile on board another, unrelated one.  Is it because they just happen to keep agreeing?

Or is it the thinking that “My buddy wants this, so I’m going to want it too”?

One of the issues I see are that people are all set to leap together and work on something, whether it’s a senior center, a shopping center, a hotel, with a myopic focus on that one object, without ever working on the larger picture.  After the one object is achieved, or not, as the case may be, there’s no getting together in the aftermath to try to figure out how the victory or defeat can be parlayed into something decent for the town.

Is there no deep thinking?  Is that the problem?

Or has everybody given up, burnt out on the work done for those previous victories and defeats, taking on a ‘fuck it’ attitude in the face of the immovable positions of both of the camps.

See, thats what I was hoping the online thing would overcome.  Probably idealistic, but don’t all the good ideas sound idealistic?  A situation where class, or location, or history wouldn’t make a difference, where new ideas could pop out and take root?

Maybe the apathy wins out over idealism.

Got this stuck in my head.

Shoulders ache a bit
From hunching over the box
Workin’ on Sunday

Been sick of this place
Until this week, it appears
Feels like home again

Sold a few t-shirts
Wow, how easy things can be
Blows my mind a bit

House is a mess, man
Kids are away, I should clean
We’ll see how that goes

Edit: I don’t think this is working. I’m still the best blog, tho. You can go here and see it, I guess. Stupid embedding code.