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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2009-11-22

  • time to walk home from work. because i am your great-grandfather, and i work in a mill circa 1845. #
  • i’ve graduated into that fine class of persons who wear wrinkled clothing and, while walking, hold extended dialogues with invisible persons #
  • bagel slathered with chicken hut honey mustard. #sodelicious #ohwhy #free #foodtweets #excessivetagging #lowstandards #
  • @nicoletaylor28 the kids’ slang for chic-fil-a. i’m just trying to fit in, and all that. next it will be the drugs, then the fancy pantaloon in reply to nicoletaylor28 #
  • JOHN CLUTE JOHN CLUTE JOHN RT @strangehorizons: John Clute will be writing a column, “Scores” for SH, starting in 2010. http://bit.ly/4FJuwA #
  • @nalohopkinson hooray! where is it going? or is that a secret? in reply to nalohopkinson #
  • someone has stepped in my brain again. oof. #
  • Toy story 3 is a remake of the brave little toaster. #
  • I was hiding under your porch because i love you. Can i stay? #
  • @rquat yes, i agree. got me thinking about structure, actually… almost all of the emotionally moving points referenced that first 10 min. in reply to rquat #
  • @schy :) good movie. in reply to schy #
  • productive day, go. go now. #
  • who loves the rain? who cares that it makes flowers? #
  • clarification: i do like the rain (but if it is cold, i like to watch it from inside). i also like the velvet underground. #
  • in other news: lunch. then: write stories. #
  • o girl! you have no faith in medicine. #
  • @mathiasreese HOLD STILL I AM A MEDICAL DOCTOR HOLD STILL PLEASE in reply to mathiasreese #
  • @mynameis_shoe man, jack white makes me want to play guitar. loudly and well, with distortion. in reply to mynameis_shoe #
  • @elleeffect alternatively, you could follow some robots. in reply to elleeffect #
  • feels like it’s about 10pm. typing this novel is not helping my spirits. what’s an optimistic way to say “it’s worse than i thought?” #
  • received ryunosuke akutagawa’s short story collection in the mail (read it before, on interlibrary loan) after watching rashomon last night. #
  • i want one. RT @elleeffect: Oh you know, just cooking on a Thursday. http://yfrog.com/4fiswj #
  • NOTHING TO SEE HERE. I’LL KEEP TYPING. TYPE TYPE TYPE. #learningaboutshortstorystructurefromtypingthestortstoriesofdeadwriters #excessivetag #
  • @Keffy good job on #stormwalk last night. i went to bed early, before you started, so i got it all in a chunk in my reader this morning. #
  • read “26 monkeys, also the Abyss” by Kij Johnson: http://is.gd/4Zcks a sweet story discovered via @damiengwalter’s column http://is.gd/4ZclH #
  • @glorioushubris eh. reminded, then? i haven’t read much current fiction, overall. i get easily sidetracked & so i read unevenly, and weirdly in reply to glorioushubris #
  • dain’s & socialize myself? or read paul park in my room after typing for 8 hours (not writing; learning, though)? #
  • “… the hardest thing for me as a writer is to speak without irony, without the protection of being misunderstood.” — Paul Park #
  • Dain’s and paul park’s roumania books both tonight. Wacky option c! #
  • RT @wilw: RT Math is awesome. @ambersalis Today (1120) = (1 × 2 × 3 × 4 × 5 × 6 × 7 × 8) / (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8). #
  • to all my cat obsessed friends: http://is.gd/4ZJx7 #
  • more #free #fiction, this time by jeffrey ford and others http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=58333 at @torbooks #
  • true statement about desire & anticipation. people want to want. http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=502 #
  • file this NEW MOON review under “trying not to giggle at work.” by @glvalentine http://bit.ly/7YDvnv #
  • At a wedding. Trying to convince myself not to impersonate the ancient mariner. #
  • dear police officer who stopped me for having a blown tail light and made me wait for a half hour and then breathalysed me: you are a waste. #
  • (but thanks for letting me go without shooting me or throwing me to the cold cold ground and tazering me until i died or giving me a ticket) #
  • O mercy #
  • Mapping a story at dain’s. #
  • Dain’s is playing Shatner’s cover of common people over the pa. One of many reasons to love this bar. #
  • i’ll do short fiction for a while, i said. of course i won’t i irresistibly pursue a novel soon after finishing the last one, i said. #lies #
  • drinking woodford reserve #lalala #bourbon #newnovelblitz #writing #
  • @themattlondon … that’s what… she said? in reply to themattlondon #
  • eventually i’ll have to stop trumpeting “new! new! new!” and revise. #
This was written by Paul. Posted on Sunday, November 22, 2009, at 9:00 pm. Filed under Twitter. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

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