I subscribed to @BreakingNews on Twitter yesterday. It is actually really overwhelming. I previously had gotten my news from CNN.com (where I basically was looking for funny articles to read with amazing headlines. For instance: Mom Pleads Guilty to using Baby as Weapon (Don't worry, Jarron made a full recovery and grew up to team up with Evan and put out some hits). This is no longer on CNNs website, but it was, I promise. I think the headline writers just get bored and try to make up ridiculous headlines, or as in this case, some dumb person makes it easy for them. Wow, this parenthetical is longer than Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie's, well never mind.) But yeah, CNN.com and little birds were my only news sources until yesterday. Though the articles (especially the comments) are entertaining, it seems that they are missing a little depth. I had no idea how much news was actually breaking. Saying that makes me feel like an idiot, I mean if I really thought about it, obviously there are endless amounts of news (Jessica Simpson Moment)(Vomit). This new @Breaking News has taught me its a big world (though apparently sometimes it's a small world). In the last three hours @BreakingNews has updated me on ten different stories. Thank God for Twitter, otherwise I would have to find all this news and actually read the articles instead of just seeing headlines and just guessing what they mean. Doesn't modern technology make us so much smarter? Oh and just so you know, a Deadliest Catch deckhand was found dead in a Homer, Alaska hotel room. I was going to write about what I thought that story had to offer, but my conscience just put a quicker end to that than Paris Hilton's singing career (but don't lie, you like Stars are Blind).
That leads me to my next point (or it just created my next point), why can't people stick with what made them famous (like sex tapes), they all want to do something else to become more famous. Then they just realize that they suck at that just like any slapdick off the street. Of course there are exceptions to this rule. Jesse Ventura, wrestler/governor, Jack Black, comedian/musician, Lil Bow Wow, rapper/NBA player (did you see him dominate as a kid in Like Mike), Kanye, rapper/douche, and of course me, user of parentheses/blogger......... Ok I don't have much more to input on that, maybe not the great point I thought it might become. Regardless, stick with what you're good at if you get paid millions to do it. (I am not sure that I really even believe this but don't those make for the best points/arguments?)
Next Point, "The Meaning of Life" (SPOILER ALERT)
Ha, I really don't have much here, I have just always wanted to do that. Something about the all caps "spoiler alert" is like some kind of Siren for me. Ok, I am a nerd and when I am really into a tv show or a book I like to get on the Internet.com and check out what people have to say about it or how they break it down. When I see that stamp on a post, I sometimes want to look at posts I don't even care about. Sometimes I give in, sometimes I don't but it is always a 15 minute struggle (ok maybe 30 seconds) where i have to build up all the will power I have to leave it and move on.
I feel like I really can't follow up on a section titled "The Meaning of Life". I am going to take a break and ponder that for a while. If I come up with something it will be up here. And hopefully, if I can find the meaning of life and post it, this thing will blow up. Hell, we might then finally have more followers than OJ's Bronco.
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