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!9 minutes ago from web
- now that MEN & women & children r being raped in the Congo will the world take notice?about 1 hour ago from web
- Can I say SCOTUS Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor yet?about 1 hour ago from web
- Reading Sontag's journals is like visiting France for the first; it is both similar 2 & more amazing than you imagined.about 1 hour ago from web
- If only the new Lispector bio weren't as big as a boulder, I'd carry it w me everywhere.about 1 hour ago from web
- Twitter's back, ttg! Can't do without folks' bursts of whatever comes 2 mind or fingertip...about 2 hours ago from web
- Agua frescas @ Doma are still the bomb!about 21 hours ago from web
- Do the Mets regret firing Willie Randolph yet?1:16 PM Aug 5th from web
- Why won't someone pay me to go act a fool on behalf of single-payer universal health care?1:15 PM Aug 5th from web
- Why are former Democratic presidents addressing humanitarian needs & crises while GOP ex-prezes just play golf?1:13 PM Aug 5th from web
- Happy Barack Obama Day!1:44 PM Aug 4th from web
- Why do I always expect books I want 2 be in the bookstore (cf new Lispector bio)?6:08 PM Aug 3rd from web
- @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!6:04 PM Aug 3rd from web
- @Blabbeando Not at all surprising. He's such a lowlife.5:59 PM Aug 3rd from web
- King Lear is far stranger, more gory and more complex than I recall. I cd easily see an African filmic version.2:01 PM Aug 3rd from web
- Having cut the backyard lawn this morning, I'll pick some more blackberries this evening. What to do with them, tho?1:58 PM Aug 3rd from web
- this morning felt like September, but now it feels like August.4:15 PM Aug 2nd from web
- @tayari I http://twurl.nl/fssqh3 This book is getting a LOT of play...why?4:25 PM Aug 1st from web
- @Atrios And yet I still read it every day!1:18 PM Jul 31st from web
- It's a steambath out here. Rain would be great.1:16 PM Jul 31st from web
- Was so into what I was writing 2day I forgot what time it was. Back 2 the world...5:54 PM Jul 30th from web
- Humid 2day but so sunny, so I love it.2:10 PM Jul 30th from web
- @Blabbeando where is nn?2:05 PM Jul 30th from web
- @zeenakoda yes works 2 jsq but not 2 nwk it's a mess @ jsq upstairs6:48 PM Jul 29th from web
- @PATHtweet no jsq 2 nwk trains! of course conflicting info; loudspeaker says take jersey trans, conductor says buses @ jsq--????6:40 PM Jul 29th from web
- New Jersey's news these days is very wild wild West or NYC circa 1980!1:30 PM Jul 29th from web
- http://twurl.nl/kviati@tayari Horrendous! Bloomberg should be ousted for this act alone. BTW where's the churches' outcry?1:26 PM Jul 29th from web
- @tayari mendi o has the perfect ending-the-chain-letter letter.6:06 PM Jul 28th from web
- http://tinyurl.com/l59qog@r... a fine tribute1:32 PM Jul 28th from web
- @tayari it's atrocious but not surprising. all my students have read her work & she's often a fave.1:29 PM Jul 28th from web
- Sometimes I think 3GS = 3 good sentences b4 AT&T's network craps out.5:47 PM Jul 27th from web
- @blackgriot It does @ the holiday inn Viking in St. Louis1:58 PM Jul 27th from web
- I thought Merce Cunningham was immortal.1:57 PM Jul 27th from web
- I had a mifi but gave it up. Why oh why did I ever do that?4:15 PM Jul 24th from web
- @glenngreenwald It's disgraceful, really.2:37 PM Jul 24th from web
- So very sorry to learn about E Lynn Harris's death!2:36 PM Jul 24th from web
- Thinking about Sara Ahmed's ideas as a way to consider blackness and queerness2:35 PM Jul 24th from web
- @AllenGallery all of em except Corzine Corey B & Randall P lol5:21 PM Jul 23rd from web
- Go new jersey down & dirty run by crooked & the crazy!5:18 PM Jul 23rd from web
- @PATHtweet 3rd car in my Hob-33rd St car has no AC, like a grill inside. Come on, PATH!9:44 AM Jul 23rd from web
Yesterday, the Facebook went down for a few hours. You would have thought that time had stood still, judging from some of the reactions on the Innerwebs. Fortunately for us, some folks took to Twitter when they were FB-less and some of them used their 140 characters or less to provide us with amusement.
