Eeee Rrrr ✦ | Top-Rated |

Suddenly, you’re not reading a blog post anymore. You’re inside a spaceship’s final transmission before it enters a black hole. You’re the last voicemail a robot leaves for its human creator. You’re the noise your refrigerator makes at 3 a.m. when it dreams of the arctic. Last week, I tweeted just that: eeee rrrr . No context. No hashtag. Within an hour, 400 people replied. Some said it reminded them of dial-up internet. Others said it was the sound of a child trying to start a lawnmower in a cartoon. One person claimed it was the exact noise their brain makes when they try to remember a password.

At first, it’s nothing. Two sounds. A high, thin "eeee" like a mosquito with a philosophy degree, followed by a low, gravelly "rrrr" — the death rattle of a lawnmower engine. But sit with it. Loop it in your mind. eeee rrrr

Eeee. Rrrr.

Not metaphorically. Not in a song. Just… eeee rrrr . Suddenly, you’re not reading a blog post anymore

Eeee. Rrrr.