will it do ya good?

Change is all around and you best be embracing it big time. No longer, too, the kind when you followed the river down to Gorky Park. Just gauge it by how much this news item disturbs you: the screen-on-your-screen app that gave us all tube vision is now working with "major content companies on video recognition technology as sophisticated as the fingerprint technology used by the FBI." Oh, Kay? Still not buying it?

Promises, promises - if only. The art of criticism has been reduced to an enterprise of celebration "in discovery and defense of the new," which, for want of a better voice, might be worrisome as well, but, then again, what else is there to say, given that looking back only distracts from the now? Perhaps another toast to non-idiocy. The distance between insanity and genius is only measured by success, said the media mogul, but it does look a little sad when down on the Street Journal-ists have to learn about subversive sarcasm and workers' solidarity by declaring that they "fly with Leslie." Well, I would fly with Leslie, too, but that doesn't count because my stock is merely virtual.

There is another kind of change, though, and it's already called "colony collapse disorder." That's the one that frightens me. No adverbial qualifiers necessary.

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