Wasting Time…How I Spent My Summer Vacation
…they don’t even have to break our doors, blindfold and gag us with their force and install mind control devices in our homes. We buy them on our own. – “Voluntary Amputation” – His Hero Is Gone
So it’s been a while since I have posted anything. I’ll spare everyone the gruesome and tedious details of my life since my last post, but let’s just say it may or may not include curing cancer, ending racism and killing time on the Internet.
….Speaking of time killers, while I haven’t posted to this blog in almost a year, I have contributed to the wonderful world of “micro-blogging,” currently popularized in the form of Twitter. For those not familiar, Twitter is a social networking site that allows you to “follow” people as they update via “tweets” of 140 characters or less. There can be a lot of ego involved as well as trivial crap posted such as what one is eating, or drinking(guilty).
I find myself at odds with my own use of social networking. I never jumped on the Facebook bandwagon and my Myspace account has been used as tool to find new music. So it is by a strange and unlikely turn of events that I actually participate in this phenomenon.
I first joined Twitter this past January when I realized I could get quick updates from a local OC brewery. Then I realized I could find out about good, inexpensive comedy and music events easier than browsing different web sites. Then…well…you get the picture – my trip down the rabbit hole continues. I like to tell people that still scoff at the mere mention of Twitter that it’s like the Internet comes to you. That’s probably what I like about it the most. You can follow news organizations, authors, blogs, etc. And often, their tweets will include links to their pages of info. I rarely browse other sites for this reason alone.
I told my friend that I would just follow things I wanted to and never post my own updates. Little by little, that promise to myself was broken – but I’m OK with that. The great thing about Twitter is how easy it is to interact with interesting people. I’ve been able to communicate with best selling authors, comedians, musicians and meet new people with common interests.
My handle on Twitter is ‘clevebag’ – long story short: it’s a nickname I received in one of the first band’s I was ever in and it just stuck.
So, I’ll try to contribute to this blog as much as possible, hopefully with less than a year between posts.
Oh…since this is my first post in a while, I’ll keep up the tradition I started with my very 1st post – self- promotion. I have a new band, just got set up with a label that already set us up with a cool show on the east coast. Here’s a couple videos I made…
August 31st, 2010 by Eddie | No Comments »
