August 27, 2011 · 12:07 am

living in the bar

At the top of every page, WordPress provide a tiny bar graph of site views per hour for the last 48 hours. You never look directly at it because your eye is always moving somewhere else; but catching a glimpse of it the other day I realised, with a rush of something I can only describe as proleptic nostalgia, that I wanted to live in it. Not in the statistics it represents, or in the blog they describe, but in the graph itself. It would be, I imagine, something like life in a parking structure: eroded, but not without simple satisfactions.

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  1. CoreyHaim8myDog
    August 27, 2011 at 12:23 am

    Ballardian.

  2. Lew
    August 28, 2011 at 9:30 pm

    Because the jagged lines within resemble hills?

  3. iotar
    August 30, 2011 at 11:33 am

    This is obviously what happens when you no longer want to live at Clapham Junction station.

  4. uzwi
    September 4, 2011 at 10:07 pm

    Yep. First it’s the bar graph. Then the bar code. Then the gap between things into which you can’t insert a cigarette paper. Downhill all the way.