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Twitter Digest – 2008-12-19

  • @documentingme i concur. today = http://tinyurl.com/5qefxe #
  • @chrislibey added to the reading list. some of these sound amazing. #
  • 1000 dead in Zimbabwe’s cholera epidemic. cholera means fatal diarrhea. you get maybe a few days to live if you don’t immediately rehydrate. #
  • cholera puts our economic depression into a helpful context. at least you’re not crapping your life into a pit from drinking infected water. #
  • @tofermoran we’re there in spirit. our flesh must follow. #
  • Got the Gormenghast omnibus back out of the library, as well as Stephenson’s new brick, Anathem, & Bely’s 20th century classic, Petersburg. #
  • listening to Rzewski’s “The People United Will Never Be Defeated: 36 Variations on a Chilean Song,” which is just as wonderful as it sounds. #
  • learning to humble myself. not a swift learner. #
  • Movie night success. Fellowship makes even good things sweeter. Early morning tomorrow. #
  • But I, being poor… #
  • Man, when it gets late, everything in my room turns into a grappling hook. #
  • airport. roommate. early. #
  • Played accordion in the hallway and sang the ever abraisive “Hey good morning, it’s morning, I’m a jerk in the morning” key-less wondersong. #
  • In other news, my roommate is awake. #
  • writing. must finish that short story…. #
  • @mathiasreese You only get to go through the special boy line because you brought midget water. in reply to mathiasreese #
  • @documentingme it’s actually “pass her palm…” but same idea. don’t you misquote our songs, boyo. in reply to documentingme #
  • @documentingme also: the only time i’ve seen you that early, i was trying not to wake up your grandmother. And that’s not a “yer mom” joke. in reply to documentingme #
  • @acarvin Good musical choice. Also: Black Rider is a good album for such weather. Indeed, any weather. in reply to acarvin #
  • @jayrosen_nyu isn’t that true in the newspaper too? or on television? people are the problem, not the medium. in reply to jayrosen_nyu #
  • @documentingme @tofermoran try some christmas disco: http://is.gd/cwvs useful counterattack against other people’s christmas jackson 5 mixes in reply to documentingme #
  • @tofermoran good a musical place as any to start, i suppose. take with some salt. http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/node/148119 in reply to tofermoran #
  • @documentingme @tofermoran whatever, man. i’m listening to swedes weep into microphones from across the sea. in reply to documentingme #
  • @tofermoran every day i miss it a little more. and swedes weep everywhere. i should know, i’m 1/2 a swede. so i weep on half of the places. in reply to tofermoran #
  • @tofermoran the other half will declare a vendetta & possibly stab/shoot you. i’m conflicted. but both sides will write bad poetry about it. in reply to tofermoran #
  • @documentingme and at the end / something that bends / our sniffing sensibilities. / screwum. (wamp-wamp) in reply to documentingme #
  • @mathiasreese glad you’re safe. how was the flight? in reply to mathiasreese #
  • listening to sections of famous operas played by antique music boxes. it is everything i dreamed. #
  • @mynameis_shoe welcome. this is the internet. welcome to the internet *cue techno 10* in reply to mynameis_shoe #
  • @mynameis_shoe it’s a series of tubes. it’s all a bathroom, proverbially speaking. in reply to mynameis_shoe #
  • word of the day: “pismire.” it’s an antiquated word for ant. i found it in this poem: http://www.potw.org/archive/potw193.html #
  • Lotus Notes contends for the number one, absolute worst piece of software produced by human beings. It may be worse than Windows ME. #
  • @craigmann that’s a lot of quotes, man. in reply to craigmann #
  • “I’m martyr to a motion not my own; / What’s freedom for? To know eternity.” — Thomas Roethke #

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