Summary: About a year into my Twitter'ing days, I went on a mild outburst of tweets about Our American Cousin. Just found them tonight, figured I'd share.
My strange series of early [ish] tweets about the Lincoln assassination and Our American Cousin
BLOT: (06 Feb 2014 - 09:58:16 PM)
My strange series of early [ish] tweets about the Lincoln assassination and Our American Cousin
A friend mentioned being on Twitter for five years, so I wondered how long I've been on Twitter [about five years, January 2009] and that meant I looked through my archive and just clicked around a bit. My first three months, or so, were pretty piss-poor. I was rude to folk in what I thought was a funny way [but wasn't all that funny] and many of my tweets were short and needed context to make sense. After a bit I grew into it, started mixing in my blend of literary/horror/movies/game references with odd jokes, surreal commentary, and daily rants.
Then, in July of 2010, I released a four-tweet salvo asking the question: Whatever happened to
Something crazy from the Wikipedia article? The line that was the last joke Abraham Lincoln ever heard, one he was probably laughing at as he was shot, was:
"Don't know the manners of good society, eh? Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal—you sockdologizing old man-trap."
Jesus.
PS: Guess what you can read at Project Gutenberg? Go head, take a guess!
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