Console cowboys

A young Julia Stiles in Ghostwriter.

The greatest line ever spoken:

Can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace?

Fascinating how the archetypal “wanderer,” the drifter on the American Frontier, is compared to the master of the early Internet, another great frontier.

Puzzling how, spoken as it is in an edutainment sitcom, it probably didn’t sound cool to the console cowboys of the era, and only sounds cool now in an ironic way.

Convenient how, um, I actually don’t have anything to say about it. I jotted it out in my notebook and wanted an excuse to share. Also I think it went viral a couple years ago so I’m way late.