From Alexander Bry
To webmaster@unemployable.fyi
Date Tuesday, April 28th, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Subject Kritik for Kerouac
Last week my dog and bone indicated the arrival of a new message. “travel blog btw”, it read, with a hyperlink attached. The words “travel" and “blog" immediately tickled my interest. “btw” not so much. It is impossible not to think of the great adventures of the Beat Generation when one lays eyes on those words. I subsequently expected nothing less than straight Literature from this mysterious messenger. The aforementioned link opened up a digital diary, written by homodiegetic narrator, who at that point found himself in Germany. The first impression when one opens the blog will always be amazement at the striking colour M. Webmaster (henceforth referred to as master) used for his webpage. That bold, but also somber tone of purple - or is it mauve? - overlaid with black lettering immediately struck me. 

Ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way, says William Wordsworth. I believe that these ordinary things should provoke emotions, even though that might not have been what Bill meant. It’s always good to start a new paragraph with a quote. Passages from this travel log do exactly that. Provoke emotions I mean. Personally I find myself smiling at passages about avoiding dutchies speaking “their language”, and chuckling when reading “good to know i still have it like that”. The overall narration is down to earth, with repeated references to the narrator dietary habits. I am convinced Jack Kerouac ate the same exact things. However, this On the road: contemporary edition mirrors more than just the subsistence of the original. The reader recognises the repeated referring and using of railway lines to arrive in unknown towns and cities and, of course, the feeling of constant wondering: What are they looking for? Whether this author's nourishment will lead to the same types of liver failure remains to be seen. Placing my bets on Polymarket right now. 
This weekend I read that our traveller was joined win Prague by his own Allan Ginsberg. The plot thickens!

I guess this could be considered fan mail. I simply wish to express gratitude for being able to follow along as this adventurer goes along discovering the far east. Neil Postman wrote: "we are amusing ourselves to death". I am yet to read this new purchase so I couldn’t tell you more about it, but in a world full of short, fast entertainment I have enjoyed coming back to this format, with daily updates on places I have never visited from a perspective I will never have. It replaces the newspaper as a perfect media to consume whilst I see a man about a dog in between teams meetings in the morning… unemployable, I wish.

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hi alex, good use of the capital L. glad you enjoy the viewership of the w-zone. i had not heard of this kerouac person, i will look into this, assure. what we are looking for is oh so an mystery, no answers found. i do like postman aswell. one of the more sticky writings in my mindsphere. i recommend the book, get about it. its about television, as its from the 70s, but every word of it forward refers to our own experiences. as for employment, i hope you can find a way out. sent from sent from proton mail for android.