@olivercraner
It's really good, actually. I was put off for ages, because I thought it had something to do with Stephen Fry.
The downside is that it encourages you to act like a cock, which is bad; on the upside, it's a mesmerising slew of information. The haiku-like concision appeals to my, um, minimalist instincts. The other downside is that you have to expose yourself in public as being almost friendless and/or uninteresting; but then the other upside is that you can retain some form of contact with people more interesting, successful and glamorous than you.
Wow, this Olive Crane is a very emphatic lady!
Police caught 2 boys. One drinking battery acid, the other eating fireworks.
They charged one and let the other off.
you should write a book. not an ebook, but a properly bound, well-crafted book that someone might want to read in the future. the constraints of the format are outweighed by the feeling that you have produced something solid. it might even make the online stuff less annoying.Twitter destroys narratives, mythos, mystery. We're supposed to be making life bearable by creating narratives for ourselves and each other, or fashioning aesthetics to live by, or with. Instead, we're spitting trivia at each other, dribbling gossip in the ears of our associates, drowning in phlegm and drivel. Twitter is like dating sites -- everybody wants to see your cute face, or check your stats. Even with blogs there was some mystique and distance -- there was certainly space to create worlds. It was a bit of effort for little reward, and there was some integrity in that (it was dissipating and maybe even self-destructive, but still...)