Technology has replaced culture. But people haven’t noticed it’s gone yet.
Exene Cervenka of the band X
Ready to roll? Ready to roll your tongue and take WalkyTalky as your battle-blasted tool kit (at least five tools, in case MLB is interested)? My aim is to arm you with effective verbal lines of attack and retreat so that the amazing back-and-forth which makes conversations worth conducting in the first place, will feature you at your dazzling best.
Ready to play? Make a play? Be a playmaker?
As a folk journalist, I’ve always needed the quick and lively turns of phrase to help connect with folks I meet out in that non-stop networked-up world of there-aint-no-stopping-them-now big broadcast bluster. Whew, right? I’m hoping that WT.US* can likewise put a charge into your own back-and-forth badinage and b.s.
How?
First by employing sentences to power up yours and mine’s ancient art of conversation piece into a rebooting re-beautification project. You know how hard it is, right, you find yourself on line or off the cuff, negotiating your way through today’s hypestertextual state of the art conversationals that Say whaaaaa?
A failed state, alas. But here’s when it hit me: I was nursing another of those fabulous nitrogen-tapped cold brew on draft (heavy on the yak butter) nespressos at Open Latte. You know the joint, located on the border between Santa Monica and the rest of the continent.
And suddenly I realized: We live in incredible times.
The lesson is how to live them? By getting busy, hurry hurry hurrying to turn this crazy life into lively conversation? Let’s get our Convo on, etc?
Well, as it turns out, one of the best ways to do that, is by Slowwwing down.
I was having a conversation with my grandfather. He’d just turned 100. I tried to impress him by dropping some Shakespeare.
“Time is of the essence. Isn’t that right, Papa John?”
“Maybe time is the essence,” Papa John replied.
Next: A Learner’s Permit For Life!
* WTUS not affiliated with any radio stations, yet.