It’s the moment you’ve been waiting for: the star-studded[1], super-sized[2] 50th[3] episode[4] of This is Twittering: Meta-Commentary Digest! STUPID: How did people know what time it was before there was a sun? — Conlan Spangler (@thisisconlan) May 3, 2012 This is funny because everyone already knows: before the sun, they used turtles. WORDLAY: Eskimos probably [...]
Let’s twit. WISDOM: Some things I really think are really funny: stabbing yourself in the eye, the phrase “trouble in paradise”, and the word “nowadays”. — Conlan Spangler (@thisisconlan) April 29, 2012 My reasons are as follows: Stabbing yourself in the eye is such an anti-natural thing to do. As humans we do everything we [...]
“So… do you like… stuff?” STUPID: You could cut the sexual tension w/ a knife. A sex knife. Which is what I call a butter knife. And by “sexual tension”, I mean butter. — Conlan Spangler (@thisisconlan) April 26, 2012 I like things that seem like they make sense, but then seem absurd, but then [...]
And now: commentary about not-really-commentary (or is it?), wherein I overanalyze my own Twitter jokes. REACTION: “That’s so Raven.” – a line from _The Raven_, probably — Conlan Spangler (@thisisconlan) April 21, 2012 I, like most geniuses, am I intrigued by the mid-00s Disney Channel show That’s So Raven. I’ve never seen the show, nor [...]