After four years of them, we are sick to death of Donald Trump’s Tweetstorms. They are often incomprehensible and/or nonsensical screeds that don’t move much of anything ahead. And then there is Susan Orlean, whose somehow charming (at least a little bit!) Friday night tweetstorm caught the Twitterverse by surprise. In the world of letters, Orlean — author of The Orchid Thief, The Library Book and others — is a big deal. If you have […]
We still don’t know why, late on Monday evening #TimesNewRoman started trending on Twitter. No one seemed to know. (And a lot of the noise was just people trying to figure it out.) But the reactions were priceless. https://twitter.com/PaulCrenstorm/status/1221952157479579649 #TeamHelvetica — TWEETS IZ WATCHIN' (@MercedesBoy) January 28, 2020 https://twitter.com/AustinMacD73/status/1222031036311392256 Times New Roman is trending, it is time pic.twitter.com/DM9ENb8F0l — Abacus Finch (@ClarenceDarr0w) January 28, 2020 And then, of course, because it’s January 2020, things had […]
Favorite tweet/quote of the last week or so, by author and liberal pundit Molly Jong-Fast (Normal Girl, The Social Climber’s Handbook). “It’s like Watergate but everyone in the entire administration is a moron.” Here she is on Twitter where she says a lot of sharp and funny things. (Well, she’s always saying sharp and funny things, but…) ◊
What was the goofiest design trend to come out of 2017? For our money, it’s the backwards book trend, most succinctly commented on by British comedian Pete Otway who took to Twitter, posting a photo from Ideal Home, a home design magazine, showing a shelf neatly stacked with books. From The Independent: But, instead of the spines facing outwards, they were all back-to-front. An accompanying headline reads, “Lauren keeps the look neutral by stacking books […]
“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.” — Leo Tolstoy It’s a certain way of looking at the world. You look and things are as they are. Change one thing, and the world is a different place. None of that was quite the point when the hashtag #BooksWithaLetterMissing started trending on Twitter a couple of days ago. Even so, some wags stepped up and created art for the silly titles that were being tossed […]
So our collective tongues are only half in our cheeks when we tell you that we’ve given in to peer pressure and are abandoning our sweet and much-loved Facebook group page for a newer and cooler and slicker fan page on the social media site. So all right, we kind of go kicking and screaming, but we do go. We’ve been convinced that, despite the dorky name (“fan” page?) it’s a better social media medium […]
Some of the January crew has been spending altogether too much time on Twitter lately. Part of this is due the fact that so much interesting has been happening. The trouble is, with everything going down on Twitter practically in real-time, sometimes it’s difficult to get up the gumption to actually write about the stuff that’s interesting. By the time you formulate a thought, the world is on to the new thing. A case in […]
It’s not actually meant to replicate all of January Magazine’s activity on Twitter over the last week. Rather, since we manage to cover so much over there that we just don’t have time to get to properly here, it makes sense to hit some of the highlights. After all, a lot of what Twitter is about are the links. Here are a few of the ones we’ve recently thought were noteworthy. Hard to believe it […]
There is simply not enough time to report fully on the all the stories that catch our eye and float by our desks. However, we do manage to comment on a fair amount of those stories in our microblogging presence on Twitter. (Don’t let anyone steer you wrong: it’s a lot easier and faster to write a 140 character story than a real one.) Here, then, are some of the things we’ve reported on Twitter […]
Over the last few days we’ve microblogged about a number of stories on Twitter we haven’t had the time to get to in the Real World. Here are a few of the stories we’ve covered in 140 characters or less over the last few days: Get ready to read those banned books: Banned Books Week starts now! Nothing at all to do with books but — what the heck — it’s Saturday so play the […]
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