Archive for November, 2009
Funny Twitter List Names. round 1
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009So I had a thought, “I wonder what type of creative or funny Twitter List names people have come up with for some of the famous people on Twitter?” And I did some checking. I looked up www.wefollow.com to see types of people on Twitter and the most popular tags for types of people. Then I did some digging. Lots of digging. After almost a thousand page views of “listed” lists for these famous people I had to stop. But I did notice one thing on the political celebrities. It seems that Republican followers follow Democrats but Democratic followers don’t seem to follow Republican. The way I noticed it is by the list names from people. The Republican celebrities didn’t have any outstanding list names. They were all “republican” or “politics” or bland. But the Republican bent people had names for the Dem’ people they were following. You’ll note President Obama had quite a few funny or creative list names.
I also noticed that the more polarizing of a celebrity you were the harsher the list name was. Note Perez Hilton’s list names. I chose not to post some that were very harsh or quite vile.
I’m still compiling list names but for now here’s what I found. Some are funny, weird, mean, and well some I just didn’t understand:
Rev Run
Ellen DeGeneres
@ElleHadley/amazing-land-mammals
@chalitkid/just-trying-something-new
@bibiliybob/celebrities-or-santa
@Sk8eR_GiRL4ever/will-never-follow-back
Ashton Kutcher
@Cashblessings/network-markerters
@MPCheesecake/would-like-dinner-with
Perez Hilton
@indehed/hollywood-post-a-lots
@marconibeam/matteroflifeanddeath
Barrak Obama (note he is listed on over over 22,000 lists. I gave up looking after 500 pages)
@YWCAChicagoCEO/wonks-and-pols
@inbtwnrthedoors/people-i-don-t-know
@EffingTobster/naked-and-famous
@dubiouslygreat/you-may-have-heard-of
@innocentwood98/these-idiots-r-mah-lyf
@DolpheenaIDF/antisemitesnazisypathizer
Book Review: Fireproof. A novel by Eric Wilson.
Monday, November 16th, 2009Fireproof is bulletproof. Men, read this book.
I’m not the kind of reviewer who tells you the whole story in a book review. For me that’s like telling a potential reader they don’t need to read it. What I will tell you is that the novelization of Fireproof by Eric Wilson is well worth the read. I’m sure many women will buy the book just based on the marriage issue that the story is based on. But I’d like to tell all the men out there that this book is a great read. Its a book that even the toughest guy can read and not feel like he’s reading a mushy romance novel being marketed as a man’s book. Fireproof the book will keep men interested and page turning till the end. Its part action adventure and all the “hero” dreams men have of wanting to do something great, part love story and part “how to deal.” Men you won’t be disappointed and I can almost guarantee you’ll learn a lot about life without having to feel less of a man.
More details on the story here