21 January 2000 - mania

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2000 : 21 January 2000

Recognize the Society’s Symptoms

manic: Buy! Sell! Invade! Repel! Hi! Farewell! Propel the bright pastel pell-mell into the heaven of its hell!

clinically normal: We’re changing our town into a dot-com.

clue:

The town of Halfway, Oregon, has renamed itself to Half.Com for the period of a year. It’s a publicity stunt. (It worked.)