times trends

[jfb]

Always on the cutting edge, the New York Times this week notices that the city is full of people who shut out the world around them by listening to music on headphones! 1982, you ask? No, it's different this time because the headphones are white!

And another thing--what is the deal with people who talk on their cell phones on the train? And rude drivers? The travel section has two more articles on bad manners, which I didn't read, and an essay on the declining glamour of travel in the movies.

Comments

[dougo.livejournal.com]

"I'm busy right now," iPod users seem to say. "I'll get back to you in 10,000 songs."

Words to live by.

[pobig.livejournal.com]

They're even a few years behind the active noise-cancellation trend in headphones.