Twitterpated

• 00:34 Sushi-shaped cushions tinyurl.com/b5zlb8 #
• 12:35 @PFTompkins So is it an apartment complex on a boat? #
• 12:36 @timheidecker That's because the chef was going to eat it himself. #
• 12:36 @colleenanne Yeah, but according to the Bible, he came back to live another 1970 years. #
• 12:39 @eehouls No, thanks. I've had my fill of Pleasure Straps while being held in a medieval dungeon. #
• 12:40 @michaelianblack I think Gargamel sometimes wanted to eat the Smurfs, and other times he wanted to turn them to gold. #
• 12:41 @miscellaneaarts So what's Shrimpin'? #
• 12:48 Yesterday was Pi Day, but when is e Day? Feburary 7th? #
• 12:49 Maybe Avogadro's Minute is at 6:02 on October 23rd. Hey, that's Weird Al's birthday! #
• 12:49 Speaking of which, Weird Al really should get a Twitter account. #
• 12:56 Anyone for Clooney-flavored tofu? tinyurl.com/ah52d3 #
• 13:11 I don't really get the abundance of "your mom's a slut" jokes. Where's the humor? #
• 14:53 They say Smurfs are three apples high, but what kind of apples are those? It makes a difference! #
• 14:53 @JaredofMo Which soundtrack album is it? #
• 14:55 @eehouls I always figured Lorne to be more of a Sith Lord type. #
• 14:56 @michaelianblack Sitting in the car outside your ex-girlfriend's CHURCH, of course! #
• 14:58 @PFTompkins The one about the job listing saying applicants shouldn't get seasick. I took "apt" for "apartment" instead of "appointment." #
• 15:01 I wish people who wanted to sell phones would stop following me. #
• 15:02 Following me on Twitter, that is. Not in real life, fortunately. #
• 16:19 @NowIsStrange I didn't like either remake, but I think I preferred the F13 one to the TCM one. At least I could follow it. #
• 17:20 Pictures from this weekend's Monster-Mania Convention www.flickr.com/photos/fablesto/sets/72157615320627640/ #
• 17:42 @NowIsStrange That's true, Rea. #
• 20:50 Japan's kawaii ambassadors tinyurl.com/b3zzow #
• 20:58 I don't really like the term "staycation," yet it kind of sounds like something Ruth Plumly Thompson would have come up with. #
• 21:18 According to a commercial, smoking weed is like wearing 80 T-shirts at once. How does that even make sense? #
• 23:34 @JaredofMo Well, maybe only the key to Springfield peace, but the town IS a microcosm of the United States. #
• 23:35 @eehouls Being on a reality show isn't exploitation enough? #

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Mayhem in Movieland

It appears to be a sad but true fact that, despite the success of the Harry Potter franchise, fantasy movies (especially those based on children's books) aren't really doing too well. I liked both Inkheart and The Golden Compass, but I've heard that their box office returns were underwhelming. So it's probably not a great time for anyone to try a new Oz movie. Yet somehow, a movie based on the Oz comic series (later known as Dark Oz) has apparently received the proverbial green light. I've never read this comic series, but from what I've heard and the covers I've seen, it was largely book-based. It took a lot of liberties, I'm sure, but characters like the Nome King, the Wogglebug, and the Patchwork Girl put in appearances, proving that the writers' knowledge of the fairyland wasn't limited to MGM. What I'm wondering is why they would choose to mine a spin-off for film ideas before turning to the original books. Yeah, I know Return to Oz didn't do that well (although that WAS almost twenty-five years ago, and it's obtained somewhat of a cult following since then), but if the film industry thinks there's no market for movies based on the Oz books, what makes them think there would be for movies based on SPIN-OFFS of the Oz books?

The Twitter Bug

You know, I hadn't even heard of Twitter until 3x1minus1 mentioned it, but I've seen it mentioned quite a bit lately, often in a negative context. I was a bit apprehensive about it at first, what with the word limit and all. I have, as you may have noticed, a bit of a tendency toward verbosity. But I've since found it a useful repository for the thoughts I have during the day that I'd like to share with others, but don't feel like working up a LiveJournal post about. I have to wonder if part of Twitter's image problem is due to its tagline being "What are you doing?", which sounds both narcissistic and dull. More often, the questions I answer are closer to "What are you thinking?" or "What are you observing?", which only fall into the "doing" category in a broad sense. Of course, as I'm sure I've mentioned before, I don't usually use my LiveJournal as an actual JOURNAL, either. Sure, I do sometimes, but a lot of the time I think of it more as a sort of amateur op-ed column.