I’ve been plugging away at my two new projects, which makes me sad because I so often ignore this one. My blog has become a tweet repository.
I have just over 200 followers on Twitter now. Some of them bots or SEO hacks, but mostly genuine people who don’t see to mind me cursing, bitching and giving Office Coffee the finger. I still have to explain twitter, and the twitter connection to my facebook status, since people assume that I am on facebook all day. I’m not. I’m blistering my thumbs on my BlackBerry all day.
My two top tweeted words? Not counting “blip” or “fm” (from blipping to tweet, which I used to do often). “Fucking” and “Internets”. Hence, the new catchphrase craze that’s sweeping the fucking internets: “Fucking Internets”. There’s a project in this.
Speaking of projects, I will discuss two of the two projects that are in the works. I will do this now.
ShatterCity: Once destined to become a local sprawl crawler, where people of the Mid-Hudson Valley could find out what the fuck is going on from there to here to there again. Well, I decided that ShatterCity wasn’t a very good name for that, cool as it sounded one morning at 3am, where many things sound much better than they really are.
ShatterCity is now going to be a literary experiment. An ongoing novel with many characters, stories and authors. Mixing and mashing their way through some very strange, dark city. I’ve begun to invite some folk and I’m working on a bible for it. I think at the very least, it should be some fun.
SprawlCrawler: This is now the local Sprawl Crawler. See what I did? Clever, eh? It’s designed to be a local portal of things happening in the Mid-Hudson Valley, complete with a classified section, social network and all sorts of strange people sharing all sorts of strange things. I’m hoping that it winds up being mildly succesful, and that it gets used by those strange and interesting people of this region.
So, you may say to me, “AngryBob, why the fuck would you start another web project, when this one is 98% daily twitter digests and the occasional ‘Jedi Jesus’ comic?”
Because I’m a glutton for punishment, doled out by myself.
But to be fair, this is a project I’ve had kicking around in my skull for quite a long time. I tried occasionally to attempt to think about integrating it with ill-literates and ill-literati, but it was always crowded out by the fact that the ill-sites were more of a personal nature.
So, another attempt. One which I have no fucking time for, but will fucking make the time for.
But this will be purely separated from the ill-sites. No random blathering on my addiction to BlackBerry tweeting from the shower. This is all business.
If the little bit of ice on the road yesterday wasn’t enough for you… there’s more coming to the region. 4-8 inches of snow, mixed with sleet and such. We lost a van yesterday due to ice (and fire) and rolled an oil truck (pics below). Tomorrow should be fun!
He is the most read author at this site, judging by my viewing of the web-stats. But if you’re not already, read them, and comment on them. The Dude is one of the finest minds I know, and much too valuable to be wasting his time posting on this site (which we started together, years ago), when he should be getting paid to write this stuff for a site that will give him the readership he deserves. I’m lucky to have him. And I should comment more often as well.
Some excerpts (note, all excerpts link to the same blog post, so you only really need to click on one):
Maybe if some of you quit smoking it for awhile, you may actually stop sitting around in a circle around the basement and work on actually legalizing it. Until then, every joint you smoke, every bong hit you take, is killing them trees you’re so keen on hugging, hippie.
Unless you’re growing your own. And doing so in an environmentally friendly way.
Of course, legalizing it means you’ll be paying taxes to the government so that you can smoke it.
Time to choose a lesser evil? Or time for another bong hit?
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