Social Media + Superman

When Laurie Anderson released "O Superman," in 1981—I went to the ICA in Boston—to marvel at it. I was reminded of that day over this past weekend, when a friend in the Bay Area posted on his facebook status that Laurie was playing at Berkeley and he was going. Only a little later he updated on facebook that he didn't go because the parking situation was abysmal. This was not an O Superman experience for him, nor was it a Superman move for him not be more perserverant. Maybe facebook is the new Super Hero for letting me know all these frivolous facts about my friends that I would be otherwise unaware of.