Our own article precis......"ebay's notorious wedding dress"

Greetings all, I actually came across this article surfing the web one day on ebay, and was able to print out the article from a site that specializes in funny or out of the ordinary websites. You can go to www.fark.com and scroll all the way down, at the very bottom click "complete archives," and select May 2, 2004. This will take you to the necessary site, then you will have to scroll down until you come to ebay/wedding dress.
The wedding dress was only worn twice, "once at the wedding and once in these pictures," its like new our ebay seller explains. "It makes me feel pretty" he says as he poses for the camera, and the dress so elequently clinging to him, he tells us of his hard divorce, and how she kept the 4,000 dollar engagement ring but gave back the dress. As I read this article its apparent to me that although our author pokes fun at himself and the situation, his ultimate goal is to get rid of the dress and the memories it holds, and maybe score some money for beer and Mariners tickets on the side. The seller actually blotches out his face in order to keep his identity, so you never actually know who he is. However, since the post was so funny and got so much attention he was asked to join the "Today's Show," so the blotchy white face never actually mattered. I actually bid on the dress because of the sites popularity, but was quickly overtaken. The winning bid by the way was 3,850 dollars.
How then does this material relate to the class theme you ask? Simple really, we discussed yesterday how cyberspace and reality are actually two different places and in which we become two different people. I beg to differ. What we do and who we are carry over into reality. Cyberspace to me, then, is practice for the real world and real world events. Like our seller on ebay, his humorous take on his situation enabled all kinds of internet junkies to peak into someone elses life and discover the written humor in it. His identity was completely concealed, until of course he interviewed on national tv for his bold ebay post. Who we practice to be online enfluences us in real life.

Queer Spaces, Modem Boys And Pagan Statues

Woodland illustrates the gay/lesbian identity and how the internet allows for communication, because in a world of pure communication,"looks don't matter and only the best writers get laid." Woodland discusses the four examples of Bulletin Board Systems in which gay/lesbian people can interact and discuss topics in a forum of their peers. He discusses America online, Modem Boy, ISCA BBS, and Lambda MOO. His targeted audience is clearly the gay/lesbian community, however everyone can benefit from this article.
Its a perfect illustration in this day and age that even though you may live in PoDunk, USA where catholicism dominates and political conservatism is at its peak, that a person can still escape to a cyberworld of open-mindedness.

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