Millennials are Weird (but Fun . . . and Imagistically Fungible)



My Millennial friend Young Little Allie Hogan (who recently had her first break out performance on SoD) is doing a personal fitness challenge today to celebrate one year of working with her exercise trainer; her goal-- which she set one year ago-- was to do 365 reps of some exercise that she did not like, all in the course of one day, and so she chose push-ups and she's been doing sets of ten and fifteen push-ups throughout the school, and-- here's the Millennial angle-- she's been posting them all (in double speed) on Snapchat; I grilled her about this, why she had to document every push-up and she said, "This was to inspire other people to do push-ups," which is admirable enough, so I did a set with her on the English office table-- we tried to reverse-synchronize our up and down motion so we looked piston-like-- anyway, I think I posted the video but I don't know how to get to the whole sequence on Snapchat (and I think it will all disappear tomorrow or something strange) and the lesson here is that if you're a Millennial, then the saying isn't "a picture is worth a thousand words" . . . it's something far less catchy, it's "a picture is the only fungible unit of communication, if you don't see it, then it didn't happen."

4 comments:

zman said...

Those are my NJ state tax dollars at work, literally.

Dave said...

we're keeping fit so we can enjoy our pensions!

Whitney said...

Wasn't Allie the singer on the Greasetruck hit "Little Screen" about watching the Paris Hilton video at school?

Dave said...

that entirely fictitious song was sung by Little Old Allie, not Little Young Allie. Get it straight.

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