I read several sites as a matter of course and one of them is Jeffrey Zeldman’s.
Go and read this and see if you can complete it without crying. I know I couldn’t.
Then, as I was wiping my eye and trying not to let my boss (who sits next to me and is more a mate than a boss) see that I was getting a bit teary, I saw an MSN message from my girlfriend’s 19-year-old* cousin saying that he’d been checking out some old Roxy Music videos online and that even when young, Bryan Ferry still looked like a rock spider**.
And I burst out laughing.
So here I am – one second moved to tears by an account by an American web-celebrity who I’ve never met about his mother’s decline into Alzheimer’s, and I am then cheered immediately by a humourous (if dubious) comment live from Australia.
It’s a wonderful web-wide-world, innit?
–c.
* I think – apologies to Roland if I got that wrong.
** He assures me this is accepted Aussie slang for a kiddie-fiddler.