Like the 20th anniversary addition and this weeks volume of The Coast has not published the Horoscope column. My god. It’s one of the main things the readers like to read in their WEEKLY addition. I hope that this doesn’t happen again, or for that matter end up on the cuttings’ floor and end up solely, as a post on your website. Seriously! with the paper medium being sliced into digital helpings for the digitized minds’. It really makes you wonder is the cost of running any kind of paper media is on the way out. The Word is the strongest form communication, rallied with Ink and Paper they, in trust, the most valiant minds and thoughts for all time.
Please, never more, pick up the Mouse over the Ink, and, be yet truthful to the Word. For it, is the most undefinable principle of humanity. For it’s joy. For it’s hate. For the great minds to use as their muse for eternity. Many a day I spend worry about the lose of the Paper, the Ink, and the Press.
Please, let not these be pressganged to 1’s and 0’s, doomed to be trapped, a prisoner, to the march of the next great modernity —not impressed
This article appears in Aug 22-28, 2013.
“The Word is the strongest form communication”
Yet starting a puzzling paragraph with “like” seems a little like discommunication. I predict more focus on comprehension of the English language and less of how it pertains to weekly horoscopes would be more beneficial to one’s future.
Also, knowing that horoscopes are works of fiction would help.
Astrology???
For someone attempting to advocate for the primacy of the printed word, your spelling, vocabulary, syntax and punctuation point to the digitized lobotomy endemic in the current generation.
I see hot fat and french fries in your future and your moon will not be in the seventh house, but rather, in the payday loan outlet.
Does anyone else want to punch the urban beekeeper on the cover this week? Steampunk Honey.
I, too, am NOT IMPRESSED
So the fact that this week’s and 20th anniversary edition’s horoscope is missing from the Coast means the end of the print medium everywhere? Did I get that right? I hope so because reading that made my head hurt.
Here’s your horoscope:
You have no life… Wait until the stars align in Uranus and then get one.
THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR
“The Word is the strongest form (of) communication, rallied (?) with Ink and Paper they, in trust, (constitute?) the most valiant minds and thoughts for all time.” not impressed
Before becoming the most valiant mind and thinker for all time you must master a minimum of coherent communication. How does the Word constitute the most valiant minds and thoughts for all time? Isn’t it the other way around, i.e., don’t those minds and thoughts precede the articulation of Word?
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
…Says the bitcher wrestling out a mass of typos on an INTERNET FORUM.
Welcome to the digital world. There’s plenty of horoscope aps out there for you to download. I’m fairly sure they all still use these “word” things you speak of to communicate a vague future brought about by self-fulfilling prophecies.
If not, you can take the old horse and buggy down to ye olde periodical shoppe and BUY yourself a paper that is financially able to cater to those who need guidance based on one person’s fictional interpretation of the alignment of the stars.
Best of luck, OB.
I enjoy reading books in a book form, like a paperback or a hard cover, as opposed to on a tablet. But I try to save trees by reading newspapers online instead.
HOROSCOPES
“My god, it’s the main thing the readers like to read in their WEEKLY addition (sic)”. not impressed
The question, of course, is WHY is it the main thing readers like to read in their weekly edition of The Coast? What is going on? What is the subtext?
Horoscopes concern the relationship of the planets to the affairs of mankind. While this is absurd from our current materialist world-view – mankind and nature are seen as exclusionary categories – readers of horoscopes yearn to feel that they belong in the world, that they have a home in the universe.
However, in our materialistic world-view, one in which reality is reduced to atoms in the void – to use Democritus’ formulation – such yearning is laughable. Instead, we look out on a cold, meaningless universe in which we are strangers, even to ourselves. So the choice appears to be ridiculous fantasy or empty meaninglessness. It’s called “the existentialist condition.” Take your pick.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
And I get called “fruitcake”…