That was a portrait of a family utterly distracted by their devices — not surprisingly so, since the family income derives from the software industry.
Utterly distracted, we then set fire to them one by one, marvelling over their steady, potato-y light, before just having some normal sex, without any food in it at all.
This involved an astounding amount of drama: jaw gaping, tail thrashing, body convulsing; so much so that I became completely and utterly distracted and failed to photograph this momentous event!
It's tempting to think of all of those drivers as utterly distracted — texting, singing along with the radio, talking on the phone, eating, reading, fighting, pleading with children, even filing their nails — as they drive.
Sitting up in the nosebleed seats at the Democratic National Convention, one was struck by how utterly distracted the audience was for large stretches of Tuesday night's program.
We can immerse ourselves in the present, allowing ourselves to be utterly distracted by the glut of entertainment news and ever-changing headlines so that we fail to pay attention to or do anything about the government's ongoing power-grabs.
What it has achieved is to create bitter divisions among indigenous communities faced with proposals that would commodify their lands and utterly distracted forest policymakers who are now so caught up in endless debates over REDD that they seem barely to notice that their forests are meanwhile being liquidated.
Think something like, "Taking Care of Business" or "Who Let the Dogs Out?" so that when your phone rings, everyone is utterly distracted.
The political dialogue in this country is absurd - an utterly meaningless, terminally distracting American Kabuki of suited clowns, power junkies and money freaks.
