Bloom 2.0

If you’re like me (and I know I am!) your inbox is constantly bombarded by bacn (sic). According to reports, the term has only been around for a few days and is a form of spam — but without the anger. It’s those regular emails you get about a new facebook message, a Google alert or comment on your YouTube videos. As The Toronto Star explains: The oddly spelled term has been defined as “any email you receive that isn’t spam but isn’t exactly a personal message, either.” Marketeer Seth Godin says: Bacn is a new epidemic. It’s spam without the anger at the sender. The Linkedin, Facebook onslaught of noise won’t last long, because we’re all being trained to ignore it…Yet another nail in the “email used to be useful” coffin.

All of this bacn talk made me think of my favourite scene in Pulp Fiction:

Vincent Want some bacon?

Jules No man, I don’t eat pork.

Vincent Are you Jewish?

Jules Nah, I ain’t Jewish, I just don’t dig on swine, that’s all.

Vincent Why not?

Jules Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.

Vincent Yeah, but bacon tastes gooood. Pork chops taste gooood.

Jules Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I’d never know ‘cause I wouldn’t eat the filthy motherfucker. Pigs sleep and root in shit. That’s a filthy animal. I ain’t eatin’ nothin’ that ain’t got sense enough to disregard its own feces.

Vincent How about a dog? Dog eats its own feces.

Jules I don’t eat dog either.

Vincent Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal?

Jules I wouldn’t go so far as to call a dog filthy but they’re definitely dirty. A dog’s got personality. Personality goes a long way.

Vincent Ah, so by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality, he would cease to be a filthy animal. Is that true?

Jules Well we’d have to be talkin’ about one charmin’ motherfuckin’ pig. I mean he’d have to be ten times more charmin’ than that Arnold on Green Acres, you know what I’m sayin’?

Vincent: [laughing] That’s good.