It's been eons since I last posted. I do have some unfinished stubs to complete, but I've found--naturally enough--that since I mentioned Twitter some posts ago, that's become one of my mainstays for offering up my thoughts to the Net.Twitter's 140-word limit doesn't encourage deep or exhaustive thinking or posting, but then again, it does seem to provoke Wit-tering, and it's a great way to direct people to links, sites and other tweets you find of interest. (Which is probably why so many corporations have jumped in its flatbed.)
It also, I must say, has proved to be a quick way to reach certain institutions, like the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. For every fawning or semi-informative Tweet they post, someone comes right back to let them know about service problems, the wind-tunnel quality of certain stations, and so on. And they do respond. Quickly. (On the other hand, an old-fashioned letter I sent to the director of the Incinerator Authority, my City Councilperson, and the not-yet-indicted mayor did spark very quick action in the neighborhood. So sometimes the old methods are as or even more effective. Email, I think, is a wash.)
Since I've been too lazy--though not idle; I have completed at least one project so far and have finished reading several books for a change--to post my Twitter feed (it's jstheater) address, here's some of what has appeared there if not here. Or, "Aspects of my recent life in 60 tweets."
- http://tinyurl.com/nnhnxn http://tinyurl.com/mqyym5 One word: projection!
- now that MEN & women & children r being raped in the Congo will the world take notice?
- Can I say SCOTUS Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor yet?
- Reading Sontag's journals is like visiting France for the first; it is both similar 2 & more amazing than you imagined.
- If only the new Lispector bio weren't as big as a boulder, I'd carry it w me everywhere.
- Twitter's back, ttg! Can't do without folks' bursts of whatever comes 2 mind or fingertip...
- Agua frescas @ Doma are still the bomb!
- Do the Mets regret firing Willie Randolph yet?
- Why won't someone pay me to go act a fool on behalf of single-payer universal health care?
- Why are former Democratic presidents addressing humanitarian needs & crises while GOP ex-prezes just play golf?
- Happy Barack Obama Day!
- Why do I always expect books I want 2 be in the bookstore (cf new Lispector bio)?
- @PATHtweet Was just on 33rd-Jsq 604 / a huge sardine can was that car / riders cd barely get in the door / glad we didn't run out of air!
- @Blabbeando Not at all surprising. He's such a lowlife.
- King Lear is far stranger, more gory and more complex than I recall. I cd easily see an African filmic version.
- Having cut the backyard lawn this morning, I'll pick some more blackberries this evening. What to do with them, tho?
- this morning felt like September, but now it feels like August.
- @tayari I http://twurl.nl/fssqh3 This book is getting a LOT of play...why?
- @Atrios And yet I still read it every day!
- It's a steambath out here. Rain would be great.
- Was so into what I was writing 2day I forgot what time it was. Back 2 the world...
- Humid 2day but so sunny, so I love it.
- @Blabbeando where is nn?
- @zeenakoda yes works 2 jsq but not 2 nwk it's a mess @ jsq upstairs
- @PATHtweet no jsq 2 nwk trains! of course conflicting info; loudspeaker says take jersey trans, conductor says buses @ jsq--????
- New Jersey's news these days is very wild wild West or NYC circa 1980!
- http://twurl.nl/kviati@tayari Horrendous! Bloomberg should be ousted for this act alone. BTW where's the churches' outcry?
- @tayari mendi o has the perfect ending-the-chain-letter letter.
- http://tinyurl.com/l59qog@r... a fine tribute
- @tayari it's atrocious but not surprising. all my students have read her work & she's often a fave.
- Sometimes I think 3GS = 3 good sentences b4 AT&T's network craps out.
- @blackgriot It does @ the holiday inn Viking in St. Louis
- I thought Merce Cunningham was immortal.
- I had a mifi but gave it up. Why oh why did I ever do that?
- @glenngreenwald It's disgraceful, really.
- So very sorry to learn about E Lynn Harris's death!
- Thinking about Sara Ahmed's ideas as a way to consider blackness and queerness
- @AllenGallery all of em except Corzine Corey B & Randall P lol
- Go new jersey down & dirty run by crooked & the crazy!
- @PATHtweet 3rd car in my Hob-33rd St car has no AC, like a grill inside. Come on, PATH!
- Caught Soledad's BIA 2 last night; better than first installment but so much still left out. & yes we know bourgies exist!
- Watched Prez O last night, so-so salesman. It's the baseline that must be reformed.
- @PATHtweet On a new train, finally!
- First flight can canceled 2nd 2 hrs late lord just get me home to NJ!
- Very sorry to hear about Frank McCourt's passing. He was a master storyteller.
- @tayari You can do it!
- http://twitpic.com/arxnp Happy birthday to Nelson Mandela!
- It's so mild here in st. Louis; I thought it would be hotter
- my plane is snowing inside but I'm not worried. :-|
- @glenngreenwald We should demand that it happen before the recess
- @PATHtweet thanks it always feels like 20-25 and the trip to Newark is glacial but NJ Transit train 2 EWR did arrive!
- @PATHtweet @ Newark Penn Some escalators, monitors, track board broken, station like an obstacle course
- @PATHtweet Waiting as always long time for Newark train @ JSQ - why PATH???
- @PATHtweet Just saw 1 of the new trains natch it was No Passengers for Newark direction
- Great work by Senate to attach Shepard Hates Crimes bill to DOD bill - will Obama sign?
- @TLDEF So glad about the verdict!
- @Blabbeando Buchanan was stone kkkold kleagle tonight. Rachel was good but enough is enough!
- Wendy Williams's tv show is all about the audience howudoin?
- Don't the chirren run "child please" every five seconds? OchoCinco...hmm....
- @charlesfstephen best wishes with the writers' group!
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