infobong.com

I'm not sure what to make of this site, "The Big Fun Glossary." I found it through a discussion about the risks and advantages of blogging for folks on the academic job market. It purports to be an account of a party house in Charlottesville, Virginia, but I can't tell to what extent it's documentary and what it's fictional. I assume that's there's some level of neo-realism either way.

I rolled with laughter reading glossary entry on Tussin DM and related slang terms. By far, the most popular entry on this blog is a never-ending discussion about DXM abuse, so perhaps I'm particularly inclined to find this funny. Regarless, I think there's a little humor for everyone. For example, here is the entry for "Tussin City":

The site also includes photographic documentation of a tussin party, including an animated gif showing a young woman freaking out on tussin. Regardless of the level of fiction in this project, it's certainly seems intended as a creative project. Browsing this site made me nostalgic for when I regarded making a Web site as a creative endeavor. I don't know if a larger slice of people have Web-publishing skills since, say, 1998, but certainly the tools have changed. On one hand Web-based software like MySpace or LiveJournal make it trivial to create a presence on the Web, and, on the other hand, sophisticated tools like Flash and After Effects have become more accessible, so geekier creative folks have more powerful authoring tools at their disposal, making Web publishing routine and unsexy.