Unsocial

Last month, a twentysomething from the Medill School of Journalism interviewed me for a project he was doing; it had to do with the 25^th anniversary of the White Sox opening their new mall in 1991.  Over the course of 45 minutes, I almost made him long for the old Comiskey Park.

But, in the end, we are all prisoners of a particular time, if not a place.  What really seemed to excite my interviewer was how fans at the Super Bowl L—or do you say “50”?—could order and pay for concessions with their smartphones.  “They still have to wait in line, though, right?” I asked.

I see by the paper that the Twins went on social media to pay tribute to Prince, a local son; they also put their video board to good use for the same purpose.  I only hope that all the messages sent find their way to the artist in question.