Archive for category Twitter

Moment of Who: “What would I have seen you in?”

Posted by mistergroonk in Comics, LOL, Television, Twitter on January 26, 2012

Twitterer @timbentinck says this is an old actors joke. Despite our knowledge of entertainment and thespians, the particular joke in question escapes us. The main thrust of the punchline doesn’t.

, , , , , ,

No Comments

Moment of Who: Scare Young Who Lovers, Read a Quality Dalek Lullaby

Posted by mistergroonk in Intertube Madness, Just Freaking Neat, LOL, Television, Twitter on August 12, 2011

via iandsharman

, , , , , , , ,

No Comments

Art-Out Moment: Jock’s Joker is Terrifying, Awesome, Beautiful

Posted by mistergroonk in Art, Artist, Comics, Just Freaking Neat, Panel Perfect, Twitter on June 1, 2011

Moments ago artist Jock released this new DETECTIVE cover unto Twitter. Twitter promptly went insane with delight.

Rightly so, we think.

via @jock4twenty

, , , , , , , , , ,

No Comments

Tweet Quotes: Clayton Cubitt Talks About The Future

Posted by mistergroonk in Just Freaking Neat, Twitter on April 20, 2011

via warren ellis, @claytoncubitt

, , , , , , ,

No Comments

Saturday Afternoon Theater: NASA Tweetup with Cmdr. Doug “Wheels” Wheelock, “We Were Hanging on the Ragged Edge”

Posted by mistergroonk in Documentary, History, Interviews, Just Freaking Neat, Movies, Photography, Space, Twitter on March 19, 2011

Astronaut and Expedition 25 Commander Doug “Wheels” Wheelock was the honored guest at a Tweetup held at NASA Headquarters on Mar. 16. More than 90 “Tweeps,” or users of the social medium Twitter, were on hand to see Wheelock’s presentation of his recent five-month-plus stay aboard the International Space Station.

We nerded-out hard on this. After scanning through You Tube subscriptions on the Droid X we came upon this tweet-up event with Commander @Astro_Wheels . We booted it up. Not thinking it’d be a long watch. After 30 minutes later we were still watching. Still entranced.

There’s a point when Commander Wheelock is talking about being on a dying spacecraft, the ISS, last summer and he mentions being on “the ragged edge.”

We dare you not to see him going Capt Mal Reynolds on the space station.

Now this video event is not as polished as a Reid Gower production. It’s clunky. It’s raw. And more important, it’s real. These are real people living and working in space just like the 1950s promised we all would be doing.

The future is here. The future is now and only a select few are experiencing space for a few months at a time. This is not what the idealist 1950s taught would happen. But it is the future they dreamed…sort of.

Also, apparently @Astro_Wheels became good friends with the lead singer of Five For Fighting through the unforeseen phenomenon and international communications device Twitter.

Commander Wheelock also talks about his early trepidations on using twitter and his eventual love of the service. He eventually learned that this simple social device was the platform on which he could communicate with the world stage. Taking with like-minded individuals worldwide and keeping the future space dream alive. Twitter has become how we talk to ourselves in the heavens.

The Future moves in strange ways.
Read the rest of this entry »

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

No Comments

Good Morning, Tiger Blooded Winning Warlocks. Charlie Sheen had Some Words for You

Posted by mistergroonk in Comics, Grammar, Intertube Madness, Interviews, Twitter on March 2, 2011

Charlie Sheen has done his best to capture all the attention from the true world changing events of late. We did our best to ignore his noise. And our avoidance success rate was pretty high until some Internet engineer drew up this single serving site: http://www.livethesheendream.com/

A few choice Twitter snarks and a LATimes Charlie Sheen Dictionary post later and we were wrapped up in the uninspired downward cycle of yet another celebrity falling, falling, falling to the ground where the rest of us morlocks have to live every day. And what a delicious feast the MaSheen is providing our recession-addled brains.

Quickly, check out the rest of what we lazily gathered on The Warlock’s relapse of drug-fueled inanity below the cut before the MaSheen returns to irrelevancy.

Read the rest of this entry »

, , , , , , , , , , ,

No Comments

Quote of the Day: On John mayer Deleting his Twitter Account

Posted by mistergroonk in Twitter on September 13, 2010

We normally would not bat an eye to the news of John Mayer giving up his Twitter and all ideas that he’s funny in any way shape or form.

This remark from @BuzzFeed was way to funny to pass up.

Now if we could only do something about Rivers Cuomo.

via buzzfeed

, , , , , , ,

No Comments

Trending Bits: P Diddy is Scared of His TV. Kayne West Remains a Fool.

Posted by mistergroonk in Intertube Madness, Television, Twitter on September 14, 2009

Trends are a hard thing to capture even before the Internet LOL’d at cats committing crazy antics. Now that Twitter is “famous” insanity barely describes the random “trending topics” that rear their ferret-y little heads from day to day. What was going to be a post about mis-aimed religion transformed into a post about TV influencing the series of tubes fodder – again.
Because Lucifer Knows That Twitter is Devilish

In a nutshell, SUPERNATURAL is: The Hardy Boys fighting real ghosts and demons. Over the years it’s gone from battling things that go bump in the night to parrying with full fledged demons. Last season turned all that upside down by introducing angels into the mix. It was just a matter of time before Lucifer Morningstar would enter the fray to raise the stakes to apocalyptic levels. This is exactly what happened last Thursday at 8 PM CDT.

Supernatural fans began trending the Twitter hashtag #luciferiscoming, to build interest in this long awaited season premiere. This digital roots tactic was successful but because some people jump to conclusions before having the facts tied down, all hell broke loose. Only not literally.

After #luciferiscoming and #supernatural got to first and second position on the trending topics list. Despite fans posting links to Supernatural sites, some other Tweeters were unaware of the reason for the #luciferiscoming tag and thinking Satanists were at work started responding with messages about Jesus and God.

A full blown religious conflict broke out when Rapper Puff Daddy (@iamdiddy who has over a million followers), unaware of the context of #luciferiscoming, started a #Godishere tweet in retaliation. Twitter stopped posts with tags including both God and Lucifer from appearing in trending topics. Fans continued to use #supernatural and #inkripkewetrust, and both also reached high on the list.

Just before the show aired Misha Collins joined the game, suggesting fans used #PDIDDYISSCAREDOFHISTV.

And this is how actor Misha Collins became our new favorite person on Twitter.

Read the rest of this entry »

, , , , , , , , , , ,

2 Comments

Tuesday Tease: The Guild Wants You to Date Their Avatar, Sword Spankings Optional

Posted by mistergroonk in Marketing, Music, Twitter, Video on August 18, 2009

The advertising rumble began late Sunday night on Twitter. We noticed it but never followed up. Twenty-four hours and two friends buzzing in our digital-ears that this must be seen later, we finally viewed the video…and it was good.

(via myextralife, The Guild )

, , , , , , , , , , , ,

No Comments