This weekend was something of a rude awakening. First off, I get a call from the cousin, to find out that she's leaving for Korea, for a year, in about 1 hour. Nice. But as she was previously about to leave for college, I was already pretty innured to the idea of not seeing her for a long time, so this was not too big a deal. What was a shock was reading the NYT and finding out that mySpace.com has ballooned into this giant social networking space that [shock]people actually use[/shock]. I had always assumed that is was akin to friendster or okurt, something that came, peaked, and now nobody "cool" uses it. Of course, if there's a NYT article on the service, that usually is the sign that a cool thing has pretty much peaked. But anyhow, it was a shock to realize that I was so unplugged into what was going on out there. Which, of course, was just not the right time to read about facebook.com, which is pretty much the friendster/myspace of the college world. Man, these kids are just moving too fast to create these little interconnected worlds that I've got no clue about. It didn't help that the Times article specifically mentioned that anybody over 30 would probably be clueless. Ouch. Anyway, while I grow old and crusty, I just thought I'd remind myself why I still read Gothamist.com. It's because of succinctly funny little articles like this bit about a subway riding bat. Some wry humor with my local news, we like Jen Chung, she brings the funny.