Comments on: Eat the bread everyone. Namaste.

Eat the bread everyone. Namaste.

naju — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:28:53 -0800

"Aaliyah would have been on Twitter. It is fucked up that she is dead." Poet and Twitter entity Patricia Lockwood talks with HTMLGIANT about Twitter, literature, twitterature, comedy, poetry, sexting, Aaliyah and Olive Garden. Lockwood suggests that there may be something substantial and heretofore unexamined rumbling in the bowels of certain Twitter communities and people (such as @graeyalien and MeFi's own @gregerskine.)

By: R. Schlock

R. Schlock — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:40:36 -0800

Fuck man. Now I want to unfriend everyone on twitter except Lockwood, Greg Nog and horse_ebooks. I mean, coordinating flash mob revolutions is awesome and all, but in the US it gave us dramatic undergrads trying to get pepper sprayed for freedom. When I read: ""I HAND U A PANINI AND U OPEN IT UP 2 SEE THE COMMAND 'ORGASM' WRITTEN IN THOUSAND ISLAND" I feel like the medium's potential is being realized.

By: Windigo

Windigo — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:43:33 -0800

I have followed Patricia Lockwood's writing online for years and years - I am happy to see her name popping up more and more places. Yay!

By: RogerB

RogerB — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:46:47 -0800

This is hilarious and awesome. Thanks.

By: Sticherbeast

Sticherbeast — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:51:49 -0800

Huzzah for @gregerskine! Huzzah as well for @graeyalien and whatnot. I'm also a huge fan of how you can search for Tweets and then RT them in sequence, in order to show a theme, viz. stupidity. @brendlewhat does this a lot, such as RTing ones that combine "Africa," "Kony," and "idgaf."

By: limeonaire

limeonaire — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:12:00 -0800

Yeah, the poet/absurdist/Markov people/droids/bots on Twitter are my favorites, across the board, followed by the comics artists. They're just so endlessly refreshing.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:14:23 -0800

Ahhhhh, the gorgeous colors of the sunset are killing us. is my new zen koan.

By: limeonaire

limeonaire — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:15:47 -0800

Also, I can read the grar news of the day or people's thoughts on the new iPad anywhere; I don't need Twitter to serve as a glorified RSS feed for that stuff. I need Twitter for the weirdly collaborative, absurdist headspace it gets me into.

By: limeonaire

limeonaire — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:18:00 -0800

Along those lines, actually, that's part of why I miss the recent Twitter activity page on MetaFilter. It let me do a quick scan down the page to find the delightful weirdo absurdists in the crowd.

By: nevercalm

nevercalm — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:24:51 -0800

It took me about ten years to join Twitter because, like old men everywhere, I "did not get it." Boy, shame she didn't get it when she first thought about it because she would've beat the guys who started Twitter in 2006, 6 years ago.

By: billyfleetwood

billyfleetwood — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:37:13 -0800

Boy, shame she didn't get it when she first thought about it because she would've beat the guys who started Twitter in 2006, 6 years ago. So if she had said it took her forever to join twitter, would you be calling her on how twitter didn't exist at the beginning of time?

By: Cash4Lead

Cash4Lead — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:41:29 -0800

As long as we're sharing awesome Twitter profiles, let me highlight zizek_ebooks. I have no idea if they're actually things Slavoj Zizek has said, but you can't beat things like: The Christian motto "All men are brothers," however, means ALSO that "Those who are not my brothers ARE NOT (EVEN) MEN"

By: nevercalm

nevercalm — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:42:12 -0800

Nope, would've been way better because she wouldn't have delineated a ridiculous timeframe. "It took me 25 years to join Facebook." Why not just say something amorphous like "forever," which any pedantic asshole wouldn't question?

By: horsemuth

horsemuth — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:18:24 -0800

I don't know who she is, but I like her style.

By: This, of course, alludes to you

This, of course, alludes to you — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:29:09 -0800

dogboner spergers fart, an eternal golden braid man when the asteroid finally smacks into us i am gonna be waiting at ground zero like Melancholia

By: p3on

p3on — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:24:32 -0800

this is pretty cool, it's the only time ive seen someone accurately articulate 'getting' the internet (or at least the tiny pocket of it that i inhabit)

By: El Sabor Asiatico

El Sabor Asiatico — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:29:37 -0800

Metafilter: Any Pedantic Asshole

By: bardic

bardic — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:34:46 -0800

I spend way too much time on the internet and Twitter and I have no fucking clue who these people are.

By: naju

naju — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:47:05 -0800

I have no fucking clue who these people are. Well sure. I'm pretty sure they're not well known yet, on twitter or otherwise. But I think a decent case is made in the FPP for why they might be worth paying attention to.

By: kenko

kenko — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:43:27 -0800

As long as we're sharing awesome Twitter profiles, let me highlight zizek_ebooks. I really like PLT_Zizek: "The desire to perform ever more checks at compile time - is it not a perverse jouissance with the goal of never having to run a program?"

By: This, of course, alludes to you

This, of course, alludes to you — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:56:15 -0800

and people have the nerve to call franzen a fucking hipster

By: PhoBWanKenobi

PhoBWanKenobi — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:18:01 -0800

Metafilter's own ~~Powerful Religious Baby~~ Tricia Lockwood! She's awesome. So is greg nog. Some of the funniest people on the internet.

By: schmod

schmod — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:26:22 -0800

One of the most percipient political observers I know of is the fake President Bartlet (of The West Wing fame) Twitter account. It's gotten a bit less witty during the current election cycle, but it earns my retweets pretty frequently. Also, George Takei (or his publicist) run marvelous Facebook and Twitter accounts. Also the only celebrity who's ever responded to one of my tweets, which is pretty cool.

By: the young rope-rider

the young rope-rider — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:33:03 -0800

By: This, of course, alludes to you

This, of course, alludes to you — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:46:26 -0800

another of my fave things about twitter is how if you say the wrong thing about a bot a person will threaten to injure your genitals

By: delmoi

delmoi — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 02:59:28 -0800

As long as we're sharing awesome Twitter profiles, let me highlight zizek_ebooks. I have no idea if they're actually things Slavoj Zizek has said, but you can't beat things like:

From the feed:

Is the typical World Wide Web surfer today not more and more a monad with no direct windows onto reality, encountering only virtual simulacr

Which appeals to me since I know what all those terms mean! However, I don't really get the long term appeal of this stuff. Whenever anyone links to some "awesome" twitter feed, it's all just random randomness. I can appreciate it for the few seconds I'm looking at it, but I wouldn't want to spend all day reading random randomness for the sheer random randomality of it all. The other major aspect of twitter seems to be entirely about whatever random uninteresting thoughts come out of the heads of random, uninteresting celebrities.

By: trunk muffins

trunk muffins — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:14:38 -0800

What I love about Twitter is the small percentage of users who use it as a performance platform, as Lockwood does, floating atop a sea of spambots and SEO assholes. This is my favorite tweet ever.

By: A dead Quaker

A dead Quaker — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:22:15 -0800

I really like PLT_Zizek Oh, that's awesome! Along the same lines, I've been enjoying DevOps Borat.

By: Shasta

Shasta — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:27:21 -0800

I love the voices she makes with the punctuation

By: Potomac Avenue

Potomac Avenue — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 06:49:24 -0800

Just came here to post this and some links to her poetry. She is great.