Before Paulius did the yeoman’s work fixing my cell phone setting, Google Voice was doing its best to become my greedy android friend. For about a week, it seems their digital voice answering service was eating all my phone calls, not giving me the messages as voice, but instead, spitting them back to me in long, weird, SMS text messages into my phone.

The promises of Google Voice

The following ‘Voice’ message I received is completely verbatim. I leave you to decide its literary merit. I think it would make for a good canvas, all text, Christopher Wool style.

But I thought I’d check off and I’ve been.

Josh like to do that

you were you

were able to bring these. You.

It’s bucks. No

upstairs.

Jen and I think

I just want to call me back

and then

than

*********

Hi Luke,

demand out

and

all that stuff for the And

then I thought that look

at the same page

and

then

leak

stand okay.

Sarah

and call me when

I had a

and

you are okay.

Hi cookies.