Comments on: Step Into The Twitter Time Machine

By: lipdesign

lipdesign — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:37:16 +0000

I swear I did burlesque comedy in former life. Carried it with me in this life.
Google photos of late 1970s Barry Gibb or Bee Gees; those white pants tell all! Seriously.

I didn't have TV for a long time in my apt, either. We are kindred spirits.

By: Karen Quah

Karen Quah — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:23:48 +0000

Hey Tina, Congrats for that kinky funky plug on The Daily Sexy.

Here's my comment:

Congrats! You have awarded The Daily Sexy to the perfect person. (But I guess you already knew that!) And you are so right about her writing… At first it makes you burst out laughing, then it makes you think. And her spin, as you say, is pretty darn original.

Tina, you like to shoot chairs…? Hm, if you dream about them it’s supposed to signify your obsession with where you stand in society, family, at work, school… If someone is sitting in your chair, it means they’re taking over or you think they are. If you’re sitting in someone else’s chair, it means you need to be more considerate of their feelings. But seeing as you just like to take pictures of them, this might all be irrelevant. So… To The Hot Dog!

LOVE the picture. Just like your writing, your photos provoke laughter but then you realize beneath the comic, lies layer upon layer of rare and intricate originality. Thank You!

By: lipdesign

lipdesign — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:37:16 +0000

I swear I did burlesque comedy in former life. Carried it with me in this life.
Google photos of late 1970s Barry Gibb or Bee Gees; those white pants tell all! Seriously.

I didn't have TV for a long time in my apt, either. We are kindred spirits.

By: Karen Quah

Karen Quah — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:23:48 +0000

By: Ct Kingston

Ct Kingston — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:27:58 +0000

Mookie, really...Twitter only stores 3,oo0? I didn't know that. I think on twittersearch.com they only store 2 days worth.
You're right, that probably is best!
I want to see your Astro Boy tweets!
You should visit more often, I get a kick out your thoughts, as you know.

By: Ct Kingston

Ct Kingston — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:26:01 +0000

Ha, love the good word, doll, thanks!
Ewwww sorry it was your Pops who discovered your 'cycle' first. Oh no!
Barry Gibb's manhood must of been enormous. I'm going to look into that
I love Mary, Rhoda too, wish they were on Twitter.
John Lennon's death would have been so talked about the site …crash, Fail Whale, I can imagine
sad tweets happening for many weeks.
Cable… wow… I feel I had it my whole life, but as soon as I got my own apartment I skipped buying a TV.
Everyone who visited me were angry they couldn't see sports games or tv shows… oops.
You'd be a hoot back in the day… as you are now.

By: Ct Kingston

Ct Kingston — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:19:39 +0000

Nong, hello…So basically you were a lot older then than now and that reversal of fortune is admirable.
Life is definitely too short for constant seriousness… The laughter can get us through the worst
of it… too bad they can't sell laughter in a pill form. It'd be great to have during the times
we feel it's to hard to crack a smile.

By: Ct Kingston

Ct Kingston — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:15:53 +0000

Ha, I bet you would have been one of the first people to have an 'online journal' -You Trendsetter!
But if it was only private and under a desk at school… maybe one of the boys would have stolen it. haha

The sheets? o and m and g… Krys, wooooooooo… wild.
I wish we lived closer too. We could dish all day and eat tiny meals together

By: Ct Kingston

Ct Kingston — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:13:49 +0000

Diana, so cool to see you here. Thanks for the read and the words. I bet your Time Machine Tweets would have been fab.

By: Ct Kingston

Ct Kingston — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:13:10 +0000

Fixed it, actually did before in my dashboard, but it didn't “take”… fixing a comment …notice how it says [edited by moderator] & that seems to imply you did something cuh-razy and I had to remove it…ha… And you're not a relic.

By: Ct Kingston

Ct Kingston — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:10:39 +0000

Ponch FTW

By: mookie

mookie — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:24:42 +0000

You know what I'm thankful for? The fact that twitter only stores your last 3,000 tweets* on the internets. So for the particularly mentally-diarrhea-prone amongst us, it means that the more you tweet, the more of the things you shouldn't have written in the past are deleted.

I mean, if indeed I was a wee youngster and tweeting away ridiculous things, it's a good thing to know that those things would have all disappeared by now.

What would I have tweeted? Something along the lines of, "Astro Boy is the best!!" And that's just last week...

Ct/Tina/Christina, I really need to visit here more often. I notice that when I've been away.

-- mookie aka @ASternWarning

* I think that number is correct -- it was last time I sat down and counted them.

By: lipdesign

lipdesign — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:15:22 +0000

This is such an awesome post, Tina!

CD's nor computers were around during my youth ... (old) ... However, thinking waaaaaay back (I'll not bother posting first time since it was rather uneventful):
Mom + I had "the talk". Will never let anyone do THAT to me #gross
For once would I love to see Jan b*tch slap Marcia #bradybunch
OMG, just saw David Cassidy in concert. He wore orange jumpsuit w/ fringe. HATE Mom (made me wear dorky Easter dress)
HOLY S**T! My DAD first to notice I got my period. UGH!!! #loser #keeplegsclosedwhengettingoutofbed
Bee Gees at New Haven Coliseum. Barry Gibb's manhood visible from 200th row. Annoying screaming fans *eyeroll*
I want to be Rhoda. Mary is overrated.
I now have same haircut as Joyce DeWitt #3sCompany
RIP John Lennon. Don't feel like studying for finals now #johnlennonshot
We have cable! Anyone watch MTV? #iwantmymtv

I deleted a bunch more ... what a cathartic exercise. I had fun. Obviously.

By: Nong

Nong — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:02:19 +0000

As a child, I was stoic and studious. In fact, my mother had to remind me to have fun. Perhaps this is the reason my tweets, as an adult, are quirky and playful. I don't know why I was so serious as a kid. There were many times my parents tried prodding me towards recreation. My umbrella answer was, “Not now Mum, I'm reading something important.” I'm glad that I've changed. Adulthood has taught me that life is too short not to laugh, love and embrace life. Speculating what I would tweet if I could go back in time?

“I wish boys knew what menstrual cramps felt like.”

By: Krys

Krys — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:45:43 +0000

Well I'm SURE I would have tweeted about that _first time_ (and blogged about it in my very first online journal entry) – I documented it in writing, in a folder, and left it under my desk at school. Yeah, so 140 would have been less embarrassing and would have went something like this:

OMG. wtf. My mom knew. All bc I did my own laundry. DO NOT DO LAUNDRY (if you seldom do) especially sheets. Dead giveaway.

Love this, Tina. I wish we lived closer.