Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

Twitter is not necessarily for twits

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

We’re not here to debate the merits of social media as marketing tool. (There are hundreds of bloggers for that, most of whom are sending Tweets all day long.)

Here’s why we like Twitter.

There are lots of funny people out there sending out one liners on a regular basis. Some of them even bear repeating when you are at a loss for something witty of your own to regale your companions.

Here’s a small sample of ones we like:

Pheend
Wry Redhead
Hot Amish Chick
Hoosiergirl
A Big Victory
Bizzarobama
Ana Marie Cox
Dooce
Zolora

For some odd reason, we think women Twitterers are usually funnier than men Twitterers. Probably because men who Twitter incessantly have a certain pitiable quality.

PoMo Mojo? Read On.

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

What else can I say about Infinite Jest? While I have not read this monument, I know enough to worship it. Many consider David Foster Wallace to have been the finest author of the age. Come to think of it, I have not read most of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, or Don DeLillo’s White Noise, but I still know literary pyrotechnics when I see them (reading requires more work.)

While I am not a poster child for the “po mo“, I love the basic idea–which essentially is to eschew the (very) recent past and create something of seeming profundity from a blank page.*

* Proven technique with the opposite sex.