Saturday, April 16, 2011

Never-tweets and progress report.

I have come up with about 20 almost-Tweets this weekend. But they seem so silly when I begin the conveniently distracting task of meticulously editing and fact-checking their content. Instead of sending a million little Tweeters about one boring paper all day, I kept track of them elsewhere, in an easy-to-read, categorically specific list. That way, if anyone has a keen interest in tracking my train of thought, perhaps unwittingly witnessing that train's wreck, they shall have but one stop to make. A sampling:

This bibliography contains a citation for Russell Brand. Yes, that one.

I can't imagine that ppl who want to see daily Twitter bits from Foucault enjoy springtime.

What is the longest amt. i\of time you have spent trying to use the Force?

Would that sentence use 'amount' for time? The number of cookies. The amount of water. The length of time? What's the longest length...??

Gum smacker in this study room has been lotioning her hands for like 5 minutes. Smack smack, squelch, smack, squelch.

End sampling.

The paper took a complete turnaround once I started really looking into it. The show is completely exploitative and a total mis-portrayal of the other 15,000ish Travellers in Britain. Those weddings are as common as beauty pageants for 6 yr olds. Sure they exist, but they are in the extreme.

The show glosses over very real and terrible facets of life, including but not limited to the facts that Traveller women have alarming rates of depression, and both sexes live about 10 years less than the average Brit, because they are intimidated and embarrassed to go health facilities save for emergency care-- and even then it's usually just for their babbies.

Well, still a few pages and points to flesh out. It's turning out to be a fascinating adventure, despite the dispelling of my original idea. Mayhaps I shall link up the paper, f'yr educations? Thanks again for the comments and participating in the idea rodeo!

1 comment:

  1. lololol i got bored on twitter so i e-wandered here and found more tweets! hooray! i hate trying to tweedit something to the right number (amount? length? caliber!) of characters. but the world needs to see joke number three! Maybe "how much time have you invested in attempting to use the force?" wtvr u r 2 funy. tweet more so i can surf less.

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