BREAKING NEWS: LEFT HOOK’S FIRST EMOTICON

It was this:

It indicated sadness and/or regret. It was used in an email to my ex-boss. In the email, it wasn’t a cheerful yellow face, just a plain old colon and open parenthesis.

Here was the context:

Unfortunately I’m busy all day tomorrow.

The emoticon was a synecdoche for:

…so I cannot do sound on a “quick shoot” for you on less than 24 hours notice, with a payment of “not more than $25,” so you can make a “Tape” [capitalized, and in quotes in his email, for some reason] to pitch some show to Food TV. I also do not happen to know “a female who [the chef/host] could show how to cook somehting simple to as well.”

I am truly using all of the world’s technology, now. Fucking smiley “Faces” rocketing from my fingertips! Don’t try to stop me. You’ll only get burned.

by Left Hook | 7 October 2007 | cute | Comments