Twitterpated

• 01:45 Photo: These have to be some of the creepiest living foodstuffs I’ve ever seen. mudwerks: tumblr.com/xpy3ywgoh #
• 18:04 Looks like I didn't get the Target job. I kinda didn't expect to, but it's still disappointing. #
• 18:08 Would you prefer to kill Heidi, flog Molly (not @clamanity), or break Benjamin? #
• 18:09 Hey, now Philly Cream Cheese is following me on Twitter, apparently. #
• 18:14 @DVDBoxSet I vote for pigtails. But I'm not sure whether this decision is based on majority rule. #


• 18:14 Happy Flaming Moe's Day! #
• 19:54 Why do I have the Final Fantasy victory theme in my head? #
• 20:11 I listened to the She & Him album a few times today. #
• 20:11 It's weird that I'd seen Zooey Deschanel in a few movies, but wasn't really particularly interested in her until I heard her album. #
• 20:12 I guess I'm biased when it comes to the lively arts. #
• 20:19 @kattmoff I thought it was listening to Wheatus. #
• 22:39 @
  gregory_goose Cool. Carolyn hugged my wife and me after a show, and we've been devoted fans ever since. Saw Sloan live a few times, too. #
• 22:45 I never watched all of the original "Clash of the Titans." I remember not liking that they mixed up Titans and Gorgons, because I'm a dork. #

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Twitters Never Win

Is there a trick to getting celebrities to reply on Twitter? Yeah, I'm sure there isn't, but I'm still kind of amazed that I've received two replies from Amanda Palmer, who has 192,162 followers. The occasional reply to a fan is actually a really clever marketing technique, though. Even if you only reply every once in a while, it presents the illusion of actual conversation. I guess Amanda has always tried to maintain a good rapport with her fans, but I think it could also work for less sociable celebrities.

The constant changes to the Facebook interface just reinforce what I've pretty much thought from the first, which is that it's SUPPOSED to be confusing. It's chaos with small bits of order, which is the worst kind of chaos (except possibly the end boss of the first Final Fantasy). I have more contacts on Facebook than any other site, yet I check and update it considerably less than I do LiveJournal, Twitter, or Tumblr. I do try to link to my more interesting LJ entries, but I'm not sure how many people go here from there, although I know a few have.

This past weekend, I read through the archives of Questionable Content. I'm pretty sure I'd seen it linked from various communities before, what with its plethora of references, but I'd never read it with any regularity before. I'm actually kind of pleasantly surprised at how much I liked the characters; as bizarrely exaggerated as some of them are, they seem like people I'd want to hang out with. Too bad they're, y'know, fictional. That's the story of my life, though. As much as I love the magic, humor, and weirdness in the Oz books, a large part of their appeal for me (especially in my junior high years) was always how accepting the fairyland was of characters who didn't fit in elsewhere.

Speaking of web comics, Captain SNES has FINALLY resolved the standoff between Alex and the Sinistrals, and Chaos has shown up in 8-Bit Theater. Now that latter one is a comic where I DON'T want to hang out with the cast, as amusing as they might be. Too much chance of being stabbed or Hadokened. {g}