2001.02.22

18:06:12
East Village, Manhattan.This sign on

East Village, Manhattan.
This sign on the side of a deli has been displaying the same sad little message for at least a year. I think it's waiting for someone to tell it what to do. Either that or Jenny Holzer is getting lazy.

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The very funny Rebecca sent fan mail from her Joymail account. Research indicates that Joymail is superior to Hotmail etc. because it puts Chinese-related ads, and ads in Chinese, at the bottom of your correspondence. If you don't have the right software, the non-Western characters just look like an explosion in a typography discount outlet.

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Rebecca says she just uses Joymail because trapperkeeper@hotmail.com was already taken.

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McSweeney's: Clarification. Ouch!