I asked you to pimp Sunshine Cleaning, Ben!
O tempura! O s'mores!
I like this guy. And he's a good painter, too.
Well, Ben, you should listen to your elders on such matters.
I always imagined you as younger, Will.
I'm actually liking
Your kiss is on my list -- in what appears to be your handwriting
Since I don't know twitter in the slightest, it may be that something being 'on one's list' means something specific, but never mind that.
My favorite was "petunia non olet".
One-time pad thai is pretty good.
8: No, that's a reference to the Hall and Oates song. A mere sophistical joke.
When I was moving into my first group house we very nearly named it "The One Time Pad".
"Activity idea: die in a fire" is also pretty good.
Actually it's all kind of superficial, though.
Actually it's all kind of superficial, though.
The serious-minded woman is upset that 140-character-max puns and wordplay lack deep significance.
I think I've confessed before that I don't understand how you read a twitter feed (at least on a regular web broswer; there are tweetdecks and twirls and whatever out there where things might be different). I know the @[username] usually means a reply to someone, and the message replied to can be found at [username]'s feed page, but is there a way to see both on the same page in chronological order?
The serious-minded woman is upset that 140-character-max puns and wordplay lack deep significance.
Hey, there's at least one deeply significant utterance that clocks in well under 140 characters:
"Fuck you, clown."
So, this twitter ... it's an art form?
there are tweetdecks and twirls and whatever out there
It looks like this is in a language I should recognize, and yet.
14: Seeing as English isn't the guy's first language, and given the aforementioned character limit, I'm impressed. Not a major work of modern literature, to be sure, but how non-superficial but clever can you be in a foreign language and within 140 characters?
or who's being twittered.
Who twitters the twitterers?
I, um, also liked this part of the blog:
Frequent Topics
china (13)
There's many a tweet twixt n00b and l33t.
Who twitters the twitterers?
I dunno, twoast guard?
Why do so many recent phenomena (Yahoo, Google, Twitter) have such silly names? "Facebook" is pretty stupid too, if you ask me.
26: that blog is also home to the following great essays:
Argentina on Two Steaks a Day.
The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel.
Dating without Kundera.
That Donkey Punch trailer is the most vile thing I've seen on the internet years, if only because of its mass marketing. I have actually had nightmares about it since watching it. That's not only a movie I'm angry got made, I want to see the filmmakers condemned and never work again.
Ask not for whom the twitterer tweets, 'cuz the answer might be really fucking pathetic.
"facebook" takes its name from a rather old phenomenon, and yahoo and twitter are eras apart in terms of internet recency.
Unbearable Lightness of Being is Kundera's worst book? I read that other one -- something about Forgetting, I don't remember -- and I can't imagine it getting worse.
You're being awfully superficial, parsimon.
Maybe it was The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, essear? Seems reasonable.
There are tolerable moments in Ignorance.
"Facebook" is pretty stupid too, if you ask me.
I had always assumed they took their name from the Herff Jones "First Year Facebook" in which I was complicit, I must admit*, and, yeah, it was indeed stupid.
Hey, there's at least one deeply significant utterance that clocks in well under 140 characters:
"Your mom's so shaggy, she's not that shaggy."
37: yahoo and twitter are eras apart in terms of internet recency.
True, if you live by the nanosecond, but not really if you measure by the decade or so. You do acknowledge the apparently intentional silliness of the names. (Facebook I'll leave aside.)
Why do so many recent phenomena (Yahoo, Google, Twitter) have such silly names? "Facebook" is pretty stupid too, if you ask me.
silly = stupid in your world?
"Your mom's so shaggy, she's not that shaggy."
"The enemy of my enemy is your mom."
45: Intentionally goofy.
(Confidential to 39: I'd hoped someone would figure out that I'm pulling your leg(s), putting you on, picking an absurd fight.)
50: Yeah, I suck at it. Everyone always thinks I'm serious.
A few minutes ago I knew nothing of this movie or the thing after which it is named. I wish I could return to that happy, innocent time.
Ironically, for such a stupidly titled movie, about such a stupidly conceived thing, the review of it on AVClub is pretty good as far as these sorts of movies go.
I noticed it was 48% fresh at Rotten Tomatoes as well, and got a 43 at Metacritic.
I remain 99% ignorant of the movie and, while I suspect I may know, I'll pretend I don't, its referent. 52 tells me I should treasure this state, but you know how we cats are.
Thanks, AV Club, for sating my curiosity without forcing me to look into the abyss.
Also, linked from the AV Club, I got to Patton Oswalt's pretty funny description of trying to eat a KFC Famous Bowl. AB went to HS with him - she said that it was obvious even then that he was headed towards, if not fame and fortune, at least something like where he got.
twitter:oulipo.
Too lazy to google for the serious essay someone must have written on the subject (in 140ch paragraphs).