Twitter is a stream of consciousness that's occasionally brilliant but usually just stupid.

Yeah, I anticipated this, I'm sorry to say. It's part of why I thought she was brave to publicly announce it.

I saw flags at half mast today; I figured it was for Angelina's mastectomy. But it is actually a new holiday proclaiming Obama's new police state.

Twitter is Crid's favorite social medium. Nuff said.

Patrick-- I rule your imagination, even when I'm not around. This is as it should be.

> Twitter is a stream of consciousness that's
> occasionally brilliant but usually just stupid.

HUMANITY is occasionally brilliant but usually just stupid. Its weird that people are disappointed when new media (or old media) don't fulfill their goofball daydreams about human nature.

How coddled do you have to be to think a new channel of communication will demonstrate that everyone agrees with you, and does so in tasteful language? What kind of life do you come from such that your heart breaks when that doesn't happen?

...And how deluded do you have to be, after such disappointment, to continue to speak (and write) as though the problem is with everyone else? To pretend that someday, there WILL be a communications medium that demonstrates that your own life is the pinnacle of human refinement?




Listen... Angelina Jolie is a movie star. Movies are mass media. Almost everyone goes to a few movies a year. When people make movies, they try to sell as many tickets as they can. They're not trying to sell them only to people who have college degrees and nice posture and extended pinkies when sipping tea: They want every goddam dollar they can get.

Some of those people will say nasty things about people they've never met who get sick.

Is this truly a surprise?

Actually, Crid, I only think about you when someone mentions Twitter.

Who can forget when you were at your most boring, filling every one of Amy's blog entries with some completely irrelevant

Tweet. (Followed by a...)

Tweet. (Followed by a...)

Tweet. (Followed by a...)

I think your record was six consecutive posts in one thread, each one nothing but a single insipid little twit of a tweet.

Which is why I am determined never to have a Twitter account. Your Royal Tediousness tweets enough for us both (and probably for a half a dozen more beside). And you're more than welcome to my share.

The record was eight, but you dont have thank me; taste and insight as exquisite as mine obviously aren't things to keep to oneself. It's best to think of me as the vessel of a divine talent, rather than a stingy titleholder.

And of course if you're not interested in these thoughts, you should ignore them and silently move on to sources of greater meaning, rather than complaining incessantly and theatrically that you don't know how to get your needs met.

It's been going on for years. We might start to think you're insincere.

Is this truly a surprise?

Nah. Twitter consistently meets mt expectations. Just feels good to say it.

Tweeting is a lot like walking into a Starbucks, announcing you have herpes and walking back out. It's kind of awesome in its own retarded way.

As is our species.

Is this truly a surprise? -- Crid [CridComment at gmail] at May 15, 2013 1:10 PM

That you're a twit. Not at all.

People are suprised at crass comments over boobs? In this society? Physicians heal thyselves.

Besides, whats wrong with mourning the loss of a nice pair of sweater puppies? Yes, yes, she's brave and all that, whoop de doo. As if she's the first woman to make that choice or suffer through breast cancer. Good on her for a tough choice, film at 11 or something. At least she can afford to make that choice, most won't once Slavecare is fully implemented.

Crid: It's best to think of me as the vessel of a divine talent, rather than a stingy titleholder.

How about "pompous bore"?

But Amy, in her infinite wisdom, has made a point of posting a nearly-daily link spot, so you can tweet like a flock of canaries.

> That you're a twit.

Dood... This is fast thinking and honed insight, the clever wordplay you want to share? You never got back to us the other day about exactly what we disagree about... All we know for sure is that your heart's been broken.

Meantime, if youse guys wanna cluck about Angie the Jay-girl, there are better targets, people who'll be foolish for more than 140 characters.

> a nice pair of sweater puppies?

This isn't the hour for me to admire that locution as much as I do.

My guess is a lot of those overgrown boys are thinking: "If MY girlfriend/wife is over 40 when she gets breast cancer and dies, what does it matter? Hell, by the time she's THAT old, I'd be looking for a replacement anyway! So why did Jolie do....THAT?"

I am a breast cancer survivor. When I was 33 my boobs tried to kill me. If there had been a way for me to launch a pre-emptive strike on those bastiges, you had better believe I would have done it.

Unfortunately for me that was 15 yrs ago, and we didn't have all the fancy genetic testing and such so I didn't have that option back then. I had to go thru surgery, chemo and radiation. Yes, it's as bad as they say, and if I could have avoided it, I would have, in a heartbeat.

Dood... This is fast thinking and honed insight, the clever wordplay you want to share? You never got back to us the other day about exactly what we disagree about... -- Crid [CridComment at gmail] at May 16, 2013 1:17 AM

So what do you want to about Muslim terrorist?

I've made my feelings about that clear for very nearly a decade on this blog: Anyone who's meaningfully curious ought to know.

Here, read these 1,900 blog comments. (Remember, that doesn't included multiples on a single blog post, so this is going to take up quite a bit of your weekend.)

so this is going to take up quite a bit of your weekend. -- Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at May 16, 2013 11:24 PM

You just aren't that important to me.

Riiiiiiiighht... Yet I'm important enough to have left you all butthurt and weepy, poised to spit insults from your years in kindergarten at any moment, in any context... The fact that this lip-twitching woundedness has no basis is irrelevant.

More importantly, I read that not long ago Christina Applegate (better looking than AJ IMO) had both of hers whacked off, and had nudie pics taken beforehand. Anyone know where those can be seen?

Crid;

Don't you ever get tired of attacking people?

It's OK to be gay. We don't mind.