Twitter Stuff

Periodic reminder, as politics heat up and history-making turns dense, that I curate a Twitter list of insightful, creative tweeters (heavy on never-Trump Republicans, because I find they have deeper insight into this clusterfuck and don't just run around screaming with their hair on fire like many Democrats).

But Rick Wilson is The Guy. He's a brilliant (and hilarious) political insider who's all-in on dumping his unfiltered takes on Twitter, and has an oddly soothing effect that's attracted an enormous following looking to him to get us through dark times. If you get your impeachment news entirely from him (and the reporting he selectively links to), you'll be well-informed. I also love Rick's best-selling book, "Everything Trump Touches Dies".

And while I don't tweet much (mostly just brief announcements of new Slog postings), my Twitter feed is a lean repository of my retweets of insightful and amusing (often both) takes from smart people on issues of the moment, and not just the usual scrapbook of thoughts I happen to agree with.

Show You My Tweets

I use Twitter for twitchy utterances which are not as fully-formed or well-considered as the sort of material I'd put here in the Slog. But not all of you use Twitter (those who do can follow me here), so I'm dumping, below, some recent Tweets possibly of interest.

These are lightly edited, and some are combined (which explains why some are more than 140 characters). I've also reversed the order so that, unlike on Twitter, you can read from top down rather than from bottom up.

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What the HELL is this?

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Funkiest trombone solo I ever played on a recording.

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Brilliant Larry Wilmore commentary on tonight's Daily Show. It's a meme he'd been playing with, but it's really jelled. Hilarious.

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Drunk last night in Brooklyn, it seemed vitally important to determine whether Alan Greenspan's middle name is "Irving", making him "AIG".

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BTW, Alan Greenspan HAS no middle name. Food for thought, no?.

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Big jerk chicken discovery today.

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I'm a fan of smart grid tech, but it's vulnerable (ala Battlestar Galactica, low tech sometimes means better security!).

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Bartender last night, who looked like he knows about such things, says this is the world's best beef jerky.

Corroboration from "Beef Jerky Life".

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Pepperidge Farm's new granola cookies are gonna be a problem. Not that they're great. But they put crack in em, as w/ their Sausolitos.

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"Hovering, boosterish parents who want to gratify their child's every impulse will churn out more narcissists".

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My porridge recipe (with salacious photo).

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Ate three meticulously crafted cookies from Galaxy Cookies in Westport. Body feels happy, brain feels bleary.

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Found "cancer neck crepes" on the menu of a restaurant in a Russian steambath in Sheepshead Bay.

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Eating beef jerky from Mingua Bros in KY, supposedly America's best. It's damned good...but still beef jerky.

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I follow the same recipe, but every day there's more porridge. Is the non-porridge world shrinking?.

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Whenever I like a car model, I subsequently learn it's considered a "chick" car. Guess I have TAA (transgendered automotive aesthetic).

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Dog Schwarz Smoked Double Lager is one of the best American beers I've had in a long time. Certainly Flying Dog's best-ever work.

BTW not much Steadman art on the label. With Flying Dog, less art seems to mean better beer.

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Some hilarious moments and interesting insights in this Adriane Quinlan piece. about a week w/out tech.

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Great article on Doubles (a Trinidadian street food) in NYC.

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"The market raises all boats...if you own a boat!" -- Stephen Colbert.

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I am sad. Just finished last box of Jordan's Sweet Crunch, my favorite British cereal, which I'd smuggled back from Hungary. Must move on...

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Signing up for Trader Joe's e-newsletter.

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Radical oatmeal: Filled rice cooker w/steel-cut oats, dried hibiscus and blueberries, maple syrup, banana and milk before bed. Will eat soon and report.

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My extraordinarily trippy experience at the Dreamaway Lodge some years ago...

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Oatmeal was great, btw. Hibiscus didn't add much, though. Should have mentioned I used Penzeys' Vietnamese cinnamon.

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Major culture week. Chinese tomb art on Friday, and convenience store expo on Thursday.

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What a strange photo of Obama and Medvedev, who look like they're ready to kill each other.

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Went to enormo Hunter College MFA exhibit. Found one budding great painter, totally beneath radar.

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Sadly, did not do so well at the convenience store expo. Two food samples were spit into napkins...an event record for me.

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Weirdly, a taco truck's in the courtyard of the Brooklyn bar we were hanging at after the art show. Not sure ever mentioned on Chowhound.

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GM, looking to propel itself back into relevancy, turns to the Segway.

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Patsy's Pizza (the original, in Harlem) is 90% of the way back to form. Jose's retired, but new replacement has the knack.

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9/11 conspiracy theorists are loonies. Yet seven CIA vets (including the highly respected Robert Baer) are unsure. But here Baer kinda/sorta/not-really recants.

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I've finally settled on an epitaph: "He kept all options open".

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Fascinating/depressing new angle on these African "pirates" and what their true motivations may be. The really big story's the duh non-optimal combo of both fishing and dumping nuclear waste in Somali waters. Is Euro seafood contaminated?.

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Hate smalltalk? Attend a Quiet Party.

Hmm, but doesn't that set-up just further boost the premium of good looks? Just what the world needs: more emphasis on the superficial...

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Latest logo draft .for FretBone...still primitive (a pro can clean it up). Thoughts?

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If you shorten URLs w/Bit.ly, then later you can add a + to your URL to see how many people clicked! Example: http://bit.ly/JTkk+.

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I kind of wish there could be a moratorium on using the phrase "death spiral" in reference to the economy.

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Saw Sunshine Cleaning. What a manipulative mess. Like a salad made from parts of other Indie films. Seeing Tokyo Sonata soon at the Quad.

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I found godly chole bhature in Queens.

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My awesome must-eat Chinatown find.

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Saw Monsters v Aliens IMAX today. Per A.O.Scott: "a highly competent, smartly engineered delivery system for the very clichés it pretends to subvert."

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Kashi's got a new entry in its monumental "Autumn Wheat" line: Island Vanilla. I'm thinking triple mix-ins with AW and Cinnamon Harvest.

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I swear to god I didn't set up this shot at all.

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For 1st time, I was just charged sales tax on an Amazon order. Looked around online for explanation, and found only this.

Twitter Dump

I use Twitter for twitchy utterances which are not as fully-formed or well-considered as the sort of material I'd put here in the Slog. But not all of you use Twitter (those who do can follow me here), so I'm dumping, below, some recent Tweets possibly of interest:

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Le Freak: one of the most interesting beers ever brewed in America (mailorder here).

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The clip of sleazy plotting Cramer that was unearthed by The Daily Show was actually written up in Slate a year ago

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New allergy treatment (makes sense)

Cheney loves Limbaugh (also makes sense)

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Halfway through the gigantic DVD set of Simon Schama's "History of Britain". Fantastic...Schama's the heir to Bronowski and Kenneth Clark.

Hmm, actually just 6 disks, so not gigantic. But is in a huge collection w/Schama's 2 other landmark series (Slavery and Art), now OOP

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Very good analysis of the whiff of creepiness in Jon Stewart's otherwise applaudable takedown of Cramer

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Colbert destroys Rush Limbaugh
lots more of same:

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Kashi's Autumn Wheat is the only breakfast cereal that can be described as beautiful. Weird, because other Kashi products are so inhuman.

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I've decided finely chopped fresh dates are the best sweetning/flavoring agent for lots of apps, esp. hot cereal (add before boiling)

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Two great anti-anti-stimulus quotes

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new solar tech: transparent plastic film, put over windows, makes electricy to power the building (inc. skyscaper!)

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Crashed US Air survivortards are suing. These are indeed the Final Days.

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Cute new eTrade talking baby commercial from superbowl.

Heh...for that matter, here's just about all the Superbowl commercials. God bless online video!

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If you're a fan of Bill Hicks (as I am), this is very, very big news

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Revealing, if snarky, NY Observer article on NY's new senator

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Dear God how I love Trader Joe's triple ginger cookies.