For this week’s Fun FridayI’ve collected some of the best Tweets I’ve seen this week. Some of the Tweets linked to interesting articles. Others were worth reading in their own right.
A major prize:
Acampada en la Puerta del Sol | Winner Special Category, European Prize for Urban Public Space 2012 (@publicspaceCCCB) publicspace.org/en/works/g001-…
— MAS Context (@MASContext) April 23, 2012
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I hate voicemails, too:
Oh, you left me a voicemail? Next time just tape a note to the door of the apartment I moved out of six years ago.
— Kasey Anderson (@KaseyAnderson) April 25, 2012
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Usually Herzog’s personality helps his work. Sometimes it gets in the way. Here’s the former:
I want Werner Herzog to read all the books out loud. All of them. youtube.com/watch?v=QNnMo2… (via @openculture)
— Rachel Syme (@rachsyme) April 25, 2012
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LinkedIn is exactly like this:
Nothing causes a ruffle on LinkedIn. Nothing. All motionless, seriousness, no irony. All quiver, mutter sotto voce “pick me! pick me!”
— Al Javieera (@AlJavieera) April 25, 2012
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Stress on the weird politics:
Do campaigns really matter? Or will the economy determine who wins this fall? Michael Tomasky on our weird politics: j.mp/Jhvn2G
— NY Review of Books (@nybooks) April 26, 2012
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This kind of thing happens all the time:
Wait, a glitzy museum fundraising dinner/auction was decorated in the theme of… PICASSO’S BLUE PERIOD?!?! bit.ly/I8sJqZ
— Tyler Green (@TylerGreenDC) April 26, 2012
So basically there’s nothing about suicide, depression and poverty that a development department can’t tweak into a positive? LOL?
— Tyler Green (@TylerGreenDC) April 26, 2012
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It’s good to see Whitehead back in Twitter form:
Left 1st subway car because it smelled like boozy sweat. Next car smelled like urine. This one smells like sad. Maybe I’m projecting…?
— colson whitehead (@colsonwhitehead) April 26, 2012
Every celebrity sighting comes with a disavowel. This one is particularly deft:
My lunch in LA: Ryan Gosling sighting. I’m never washing my eyeballs again.
— Carolyn Kellogg (@paperhaus) April 26, 2012
I can’t get enough of North Korean leader jokes. I don’t know why:
Just inked a $2mil deal with North Korean Intelligence to direct Kim Jong Un’s e-Harmony profile.
— fake michael_bay (@michael_bay__) April 26, 2012
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Walter Benjamin was all about noticing in public spaces:
.@langealexandra on the importance of “achieving a higher level of noticing” in #publicspaces: ht.ly/ayZ0I
— Brendan Crain (@thewhereblog) April 27, 2012
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Bordwell is among the most qualified people to speak on this topic:
MT @flipcritic:David Bordwell (00:28:00) on Video On Demand. j.mp/IoT3TS
— Catherine Grant (@filmstudiesff) April 27, 2012
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A short guide to blogging:
…identify “ass” on body. Reach inside it. Remove head. Blog about experience. Use “Google Analytics” to measure traffic on post.
— Kimberly Kaye (@Kimberly_Kaye) April 27, 2012
Another place is Pakistan:
If US Republicans want to see what “paying no taxes” (except by the poor) does to a country, they should come hang out in Latvia for a while
— Valdis Krebs (@ValdisKrebs) April 27, 2012
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He means Roland Barthes, I’m pretty sure:
I’m with Barthes, who writes of how a nation can “substitute with impunity the signs of charity for the reality of justice.”
— Teju Cole (@tejucole) April 27, 2012
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I had no idea Umberto Eco was on Twitter. Too had Roland Barthes isn’t alive to Tweet:
https://twitter.com/umbertoeco_/status/195952855146971136
A proposal for another Twitter meme from the irrepressible trumpet player:
Happy Fuck You Friday! Make it count . . . #FYF #mfcomn
— Nicholas Payton (@paynic) April 27, 2012
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