Tombstone Authoring: A Twitter Experience

Google Graveyard provides volumes of research information on the marker in front of you. Also relevant text ads for your next shopping trip.—
Tom B. Taker (@shoutabyss) November 12, 2012

Ever wander through a cemetery and wonder about the stories behind those cryptic names and dates? Well wonder no longer. Google, in it’s quest to answer every question of all time, has just announced Google Graveyard. Finally, all of those questions answered.

Some tombstones go old school with name, dates, and that’s it. Some add a few words, like “Beloved Mother.”

Me? I figure what the hell? There’s enough room on my tombstones for 140 characters so why not tweet on it. I plan to make use of that space. Dying will be my final creative act! My pièce de résistance! It’ll even be my raison d’être. Well, maybe not exactly. But you know what I mean.

Towards that end (heh) I set aside a few moments of quality time with my cappuccino and jotted down a few ideas. I’d very much appreciate a tender moment of sharing with you. I’m an author. Please enjoy these selected works from my Twitter stream.

Bonsoir mon ami!

2012-10-05 Tombstone Authoring: ‘The allegations are untrue.’ Signed, Tom B. Taker’s attorney.

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The Right's Crass Attempt To Steal Labor Day

Reblogged from The Cassandra Files:

Maybe someone needs to tell Eric Cantor that this is NOT what Labor Day is about:

I know that for Cantor and the GOP it gets hard to separate Labor Day from unions; and I know that since unions typically support Democrats over Republicans, that must hurt.  But that doesn't change history.

Attempting to redefine Labor Day to fit the frame of the current campaign (celebrating the titans of industry who built this country on the backs of millions of exploited workers) is like trying to reframe slavery as a popular jobs program for African immigrants.

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Some people just get it. And then there's the GOP. Absolutely brilliant insight from The Cassandra Files Blog. Happy labor day!

Thursday Tweet Beat

Shot with the tranquilizer gun so I could brush its teeth, here we examine all of my tweets from Thursday of this week, archived here for your refusal. Beyond here there be dragons. And cheesecake. But don’t try to eat it. Its probably got poop on it.

#FridayMorningKnifeParty – I memed myself

An online buddy and super cool person likes to have “dance parties” on Twitter. Usually too early in the morning. On a Friday not so long ago, I decided to have a dance party of my own and a new meme was born here in the Abyss.

A Case of the Twitters

Twitter is down today in an evil plot to deny you my pith.

It seems like only yesterday I was waxing poetic about the suckiness of their technology. Am I prescient or what?

It’s the curse of the guru. Yes, I’m taking credit.

My pith on Twitter will resume when their techs get back from break. Someone’s getting fired.

Let’s Give Them Something To Tweet About

There. A little something for you to follow.

Note: Internet search tells me I’m only the 42 millionth person to think up the title used for this post. Maybe those 42 million other bozos can tweet about how unoriginal I am.

Ah, Twitter. Cruel mistress of pain and delight. An effective combination to be sure. Today I’m going to go random on the topic of Twitter. To honor the spirit of the subject matter, I’m going to try to limit my piths to 140 characters or less. (That’s a big plus for most of you right there!)

Call to Action: Defining My Conservatism!

Freedom!!!

Friends, please listen up. I’m trying to find a way to help an online friend.

A guy named Tim who runs a blog called “Defining My Conservatism” crossed my path recently. We followed each other and stuff. We had some engaging interactions and I consider him to be a kindred spirit in the political world, although we reside on different sides of the proverbial aisle.

I just got word from our mutual friend Cathy that his twitter account @myconservatism has been suspended, apparently because of a one word tweet about Obama.

Apparently some people are “flagging” twitter accounts. Not because they did anything to break the rules but merely because they expressed an opinion different than their own. I find this sort of thing repugnant. If this world was only populated with people who had the same opinion as me I’m sure some would still find a way to call the other 99% assholes.

This is my plea. This is my call-to-action. Do what you can in the name of friendship and the American way. Do it because you’re my friend. Do it because you hate me. I don’t care why, really, but if you feel so motivated, anything you can do to help will be appreciated. I don’t care what side of the aisle you are on. I hope you’ll agree that this sort of thing should not be allowed to happen.

• Visit the Defining My Conservatism blog and express your support.
• Tweet and mention @myconservatism and express your support. I’m told it helps if you also mention @support and @twitter in your tweet.
• If you know any way to help a person who has had a Twitter account suspended, please comment below and let me know. I’ll pass it along to Tim.

We shouldn’t attempt to shut down voices simply because they disagree with our own point of view. We’re supposed to have freedom of speech in this country. It’s supposed to be a pretty special and unique kind of thing. What happened to Tim was portrayed to me as a thing done by progressives against conservatives, but I’ll bet its more bipartisan than that. Whatever. Either way it’s wrong and needs to stop.

Thanks for whatever you can do!