I’ve spent the last three days basically on my couch. Some sort of weird virus has sapped my energy and left me with 100 degree temperatures. Nothing beyond that; I just sit around, feeling tired and achy.
That being the case it’s been incredibly easy to be positive, at least in terms of my Lent commitment of not openly expressing negativity. This is because I haven’t really been around anybody.
I don’t bother griping about things to Lori because she generally knows how I feel. It’s one of the advantages of being together so long – I don’t have to spell things out at all for her to know how I feel (the number one thing I’m grateful for today.)
My one main negative? I heard some screaming kids outside around 10pm…and it isn’t the first time. I live next door to an older couple, who are very nice but keep to themselves, like all the people around us. But they have a child…I guess it’s theirs, I don’t know. He/She shows up in a trashed out minivan, with the spouse and a few kids in tow.
The kids scream and generally go nuts all through the night, typically outside, in their back yard. Their back yard happens to be right outside Nate’s room, and nothing irritates me more than something that wakes Nate up. That sleep is valuable, dammit. No one messes with that sleep, because that sleep messes with Lori’s sleep, which messes with my sleep.
They’re obviously lower-class, or at least struggling middle class. I base this on their car, the way they dress, etc… and I judge them because of that.
Idiot.
How quickly we forget the path we take.
When I was a kid, we lived in a rotting trailer house with leaks and full-on holes in the ceiling in the room I shared with my brother.
And I was crazy. Absolutely crazy.
You’ve never met a kid as wild as I was. My parents weren’t there to discipline me the way i should be, and when they were around they were too tired to deal with me.
The reason? They freakin’ worked all day. Not just 8 hours, but two jobs for Dad and a job plus school for Mom.
I work one job and can barely handle Nate’s elevated voice. Imagine two of them, screaming, whining, begging for attention.
My neighbor’s kids? Hell, they might be well behaved for lower class kids. I know I wasn’t.
Restitution (or #2): I’m eternally grateful for the sacrifices my parents made for me. I truly believe this sacrifice is what drove me mother to do what she did, and I’m going to pay for that the rest of my life, even if it isn’t my fault.
(#3) I’m also grateful for my upbringing. Because I know what it’s like to struggle and wonder where food is coming from, or what it’s like to hide on the other side of a room during a rainstorm because of the hole in the ceiling. My parents gave their happiness and well-being so I could jump off their shoulders onto something bigger and better.
If living in a trailer park, patching holes in the ceiling with duct tape and eating out of a dumpster is white trash, then I am damned proud to be white trash. Without those experiences I am not nearly the person I am today.
It was brutal and because of what happened with my mother, I don’t know that I would ask for it again. But from where I stand now, I’m thankful for the rough road this one-time country boy had to haul.
So it’s been a while since I’ve posted here. I have VERY LOGICAL reasons why. And they don’t even include the fact that I’m mostly incapable of writing less than 500 words on a given topic.
We’ve been traveling. First we spent the post-holidays in Oklahoma with my family. I got to go to Pete’s Place, which is still awesome.
I was home for about 72 hours, then headed out again, this time to Anaheim to work social media at a trade show for a client. We kicked ass, trending twice on Twitter. That’s a big deal for a craft & hobby company to become such a hot topic in the midst of the Brett Favre/Purple Jesus Vikings meltdown.
On top of the travel, we began a transition to a new email server at my office. Did I mention I’m now the IT guy? You know how hard it is to transition people over, especially when some of them are used to big city-style massive IT departments? We have Macs and PCs, iPhones and Blackberrys, people using Outlook, Entourage, Mail, Thunderbird and Gmail, we have people who are in the office everyday and people who don’t even know what it looks like.
What I’m trying to say is I’ve been working essentially around the clock, and I’m tired of looking at computers.
But it’s my job, and I want to remain employed. Even if I’ve pulled out every one of my hairs and still haven’t solved all the problems.
Okay, so there’s my excuse for not posting for a while. Moving on.
This is the post I had hoped to make at the end of 2009
What a strange ten years.
My initial reaction upon looking back was to say “What a crappy ten years.” I thought about 9/11, wars, the current financial crisis, toiling for two years in the bowels of the Delta Center for basically nothing, struggling to find a job after jumping out of college, the death of my grandfather and on and on…
Then I thought about how good it was. Amazingly good, in all the ways that truly matter. I graduated college, got married and had a son. I’ve advanced in my career as a writer/PR guy/IT director, and have a home plus two vehicles.
I have nothing to whine about.
Now for the part where I stroke my own ego and share what I think was superior from the Aughts
Top Five Albums of the 00s – Not based on some artsy-fartsy trend crap, like Animal Collective, but based simply off of the albums that I listened to over and over again:
5. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
4. Kanye West – The College Dropout
3. Muse – Black Holes and Revelations
2. Radiohead – In Rainbows
1. Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf
Top Five Movies of the 00s – Again, this is what I liked, not what “advanced the art of film making” or “the movie that speaks for a generation”:
5. Pineapple Express
4. All 27 hours of the Lord of the Rings trilogy
3. O Brother Where Art Thou
2. The Kill Bills
1. The Dark Knight
The Best Oklahoma Football Teams of the 00s:
5. 2001 – Ridiculous defense, terrible offense
4. 2008
3. 2003 – Put Quentin Griffin on this team, and they destroy LSU
2. 2004 – Still don’t know what happened in the USC game
1. 2000
Politicians Who Were Corrupt and Will Continue to be:
1. All of them, stop supporting one side or the other. None of them give a damn about you until it’s time to vote. Find ways to work with people for the sake of ousting corruption, not working against people for the sake of standing behind some entitled scumbag “public servant”
Best Food I had:
5. Ganesh Indian here in Utah
4. Jambalaya on Bourbon Street
3. Red Iguana in SLC
2. Crepes in Cancun
1. Ribeyes at Joe Allen’s in Abilene
Things I’m looking forward to in the 2010s:
5. Growing my little business
4. Time Travel and Hovercraft Skateboards
3. The birth of my niece, which will be in May this year
2. By the time the decade is over Nate will be a teenager. Okay, I’m actually not looking forward to that.
1. Another child (not right now, dangit, but eventually)
Favorite screen-cap I snagged in the 00s:
Favorite screen-cap I grabbed yesterday – this kid had just committed to play football at USC and was celebrating on Twitter:
“Brandon, you never post anything personal. It’s already something weird, like you want people to reenact bad 80s movies with your corpse or some PR junk that no one cares about.”
I’ve heard your criticisms and instead of ignoring them, I’ll talk about our Pioneer Day vacation to Wine Country in California.
See in Utah they have a special holiday on July 24 called Pioneer Day. This is the day when the Mormons came into town, and is celebrated by basically copying Independence Day. Oddly enough, the local boy scouts place flags in lawns as if it were a patriotic holiday. But I digress.
If you know me then you understand I’m more of a jack and coke and ribs guy than a wine and cheese guy. I fully expected four days of snobbery and self-loathing, with a few subtle barbs thrown my way for having gnarled tastebuds.
Instead it was a really nice, laid back trip. A few notes:
-Sonoma and Napa are totally different places. Napa is tourist country, with more obnoxious attractions like castles. The wineries along this route mostly charge for their tastings, unlike Sonoma, and you’ll battle a lot more tourists along the way (the castle is insane, and costs $10 per person just to get in). Sonoma is classier, more laid back and features lot of free tastings. Both are pretty, but Sonoma is worth spending more time in.
-The best experience we had was our first winery: Blackstone. Not actually a full winery, but they make several of their labels here. We paid $25 per person for a hands-on tour, barrel tasting and wine/cheese pairing. I expected snoberry and people holding their noses in the air, but instead the lady doing the tasting was very cool and totally understood that years of abuse have destroyed my sense of taste, and that I was being totally honest when I responded to her questions of “What do you taste?” with “Grapes.”
Even still, I totally get the concept that wine is best served with a matching food. Suddenly wine that I thought was awful before was fantastic when matched up with the right cheese, or sausage.
Know the scene from Ratatouille where Remy gives his fat, disgusting brother samples of wine and then cheese, and fireworks go off for the little chub? That was me. Stuff was good.
Go see Judy at Blackstone. Her husband is a Supertaster. He has the tastebuds and nostrils of one thousand Supermen. She can’t wear perfume because his nose is far too sensitive to handle it.
I can’t decide what is more awesome: that the guy gets paid to taste wine all day, or that when you reach the top of the tasting profession you are simply dubbed a Supertaster. This is far superior to the boring titles of “Senior” and “Executive” normal people give each other.
-Be prepared to drive. A lot. The wineries are just far apart enough to prevent walking or even biking comfortably. Also, don’t take a tour bus. Those people looked miserable. Both valleys are best toured at whatever pace you want, and the best places are the ones the buses don’t stop at. Key among these is a little line of shops on the outskirts of tiny Glen Ellen (late home of Jack London as well as Hunter S. Thompson at one point). Right next door to each other is an olive oil maker with fantastic oils and vinegars to taste, a chocolate maker with some fancy candy, and a cheese maker, who was actually closed when we stopped by. Go figure.
-Skip The Girl and the Fig. It looked really good and came recommended by “insiders,” but was a real letdown. And foie gras, while a great Iron Chef ingredient, ain’t that special.
-Mustard’s on the other hand, was phenomenal. The touristy place recommended by every brochure may have actually been the best meal we had in the place. The pork chop is fantastic and you must order it.
-Other good meals: The Crepe House in San Fran; Dierk’s in Santa Rosa; Buster’s in Calistoga (order the lunch portion, it’s massive); Cafe Tiramisu in San Fran; and the place in Sonoma that gave us our own little table for dessert. I can’t remember your name, but that was cool.
-Besides Blackstone, my favorite wineries were:
Arista, which is owned by the in-laws of a childhood friend of Lori’s – go see them, they’re good people despite being Texans.
Frank Family, which is owned by some former TV bigwig and their wines aren’t that great BUT YOU SHOULD CARE BECAUSE one of their tasting hosts is a former OU player that started for some of the great OU teams in the late 70s. His stories are fantastic. Wish I could remember his name.
Freemark Abbey – Lori ordered this super sweet Edelwein gold Late Harvest Reisling that was basically like fermented Kool-Aid. Their pours are generous and the ladies are very understanding of people who can only say, “Well, I taste grapes.”
It was also the first time The Wife and I had been away from Junior for longer than 24 hours, which was also very good. But however cool Sideways made the place seem to be for a week away, I really believe three to four days is more than enough for the average wine enjoyer. If you’re the type who can taste tiny hints of cranberry in a rich syrah, then maybe you ought to just live there.
I consider myself a college football savant. Those of you who have started reading this blog for the PR posts will discover very soon that in the fall I am a different person.I have very few obsessions in life, and football is probably the biggest one. College football is damn near a religion to me, so expect many posts about it once September rolls around.
The good news for everyone else is I’m a reasonable, level-headed fan with an appreciation for the history of the game. I do go insane for the Oklahoma Sooners and Tulsa Golden Hurricane, but I find myself quite reasonable when it comes to objectively analyzing these teams (pats self on back).
I’m NOT this guy
So I can appreciate your teams while acknowledging my own teams’ weaknesses. Isn’t that nice?
With that in mind, I’ve decided to draw up my 2009 Top 25. Unlike other services you see, this is NOT based on who I think is going to win the national championship, but I think are the top 25 teams TODAY.
Point of contention here – I listen to a lot of experts talk about “strength of schedule” or the “strength of the conference” when explaining their rankings and quite frankly that has NOTHING to do with an opening top 25. In fact, I think those things factor in on late-season rankings and maybe only the final ranking. How good the SEC is this year has nothing to do with Florida’s Day One Top 25 ranking. The fact that OU has the toughest non-conference sked in the Big XII has nothing to do with how good the Sooners will be on day 1.
“But my top 25 is a prediction of what I think the top 25 teams will be at the end of the year!”
Then maybe you shouldn’t have a top 25, holmes. There is no caveat on the ballot (as far as I’m aware) instructing voters on what the criteria is, so I won’t go any further on this…but my interpretation is the top 25 is a week-to-week assessment of the top 25 teams in the nation at that point in time.
Thinking of how teams will look on day one of the season, these are who I think the top 25 in the nation are…
1. Florida Gators – there is no argument here. Saint Tebow and Co. are loaded again this year on both sides of the ball. While his Tebowness gets all the pub, (and statues, and panties) it’s the defense that wins games. No further evidence is needed beyond last year’s title game against…
2. Oklahoma Sooners – Yes, I’m a little biased, but the components are there for greatness: Bradford, two returning 1,000-yard rushers in Murray and Brown, the nation’s best TE in Gresham, maybe the best DL in the nation, two experienced CBs and good prospects filling holes. The OL is going to be raw, but like the QB position, OU coaches have proved they can recruit and train players at this position every year. Plus, God loves OU.
3. Texas Longhorns – They suck in the overall sense but will be very good in the football sense. Mack Brown’s clapping, spitting and doing interviews during other people’s games have not hampered Colt McCoy, who is a tough little booger. They’ve got a lot of question marks, particularly the DL, but they’ll be a force just like every year. And yes me having them at #3 means I like OU in the Cotton Bowl this year.
4. USC Trojans – Normally I’m very hard on teams that are breaking in a new QB, particularly a freshman QB like Aaron Corp, but this team is so loaded at every other position thanks to USC’s open-door policy toward agents. Taylor Mays is like Troy Palomalu without all the cheap shots.
5. Alabama Crimson Tide – Running game is good, defense is great, line will be good enough, legendary head coach who looks like Huey Lewis. They were a quarter away from playing for the national title, with a pedestrian at QB. They’ll be there again this year so long as McElroy doesn’t turn the ball over hyperactively.
The Saban-Huey Lewis Connection
Also: Saban as Bill Lumbergh.
6. Virginia Tech – This is the same team we’ve seen every year from Va Tech, sans the Vick years. Tough defense, great special teams, average offense. They won’t win a championship, but they’re be a tough out every year. Look for them to start out around here, fall way down after an inexplicable loss, then somehow end up here again after beating some Big East patsy in a BCS game.
7. LSU Tigers – This is one school where I just assume the talent will win them a lot of games, despite the fact they have an untrained wildabeest acting as the head coach.
Arrrghhh gabberbabbin nergen tarko doogaber!
8. Ohio State Buckeyes – Conventional wisdom has this team way up top due to the weakness of the Big Ten and the likelihood they’ll breeze through the conference unscathed. See my comments above. They’re good and will win the conference, but Terrelle Pryor needs another year (though he’ll improve a TON this year) of growth and the defense has to be more consistent before I move them up (I’m sure they’re desperate to impress me). I also predict they lose to USC at home in week two. Look for Jim Tressell to get busted for meth at some point too. Dude has to have some cracks in the sweatervest.
9. Oregon Ducks – This is probably higher than most folks will rank them, but I think they’ll be damned good, especially after solidifying the QB spot with Masoli at the end of the season. Blount will be a good RB and the defense is beyond serviceable. The defense, as always, will be big when it needs to and disappear at times too. After writing that, I’m not sure why I have them so high. They’ll be very good though. Also: Masoli continues the Chase Daniel legacy of dorky white dude with a chin beard.
CHIN STRAP BEARD
10. Mississippi Rebels – I’m not as ready as everyone else is to buy into the Rebels hype, mainly because I think it builds off of two impressive wins from last season – at Florida, Texas Tech in the Cotton Bowl
11. Georgia Tech – I love the old school option and while some people think it won’t be as good this year after opponents have had a year to see it, I think it’ll be even better. Two reasons – 1. Another year of seasoning for the guys running it and 2. The difference between Nebraska and Air Force running the option is talent. GT has way more talent than Navy did, and that’ll be pretty evident this year for Paul Johnson’s crew.
12. Nebraksa Cornhuskers – Another team I’ll have higher than most folks will. Why? There’s nothing to do in Nebraska except college football, and Bo Pelini gets that. Bill Callahan tried to change that – Beau Bridges lookalike contests, interpretive dance, homeless strangling were some of his community initiatives – but failed miserably. They’re a year or two away from contending nationally, and they’ll take a whupping from OU at home this year, but they’ll also surprise you with how good they are.
13. Notre Dame – Yeah, I’m a jerk for having them this far up here. My reasoning: they get a boatload of talent, and Charlie Weis wastes it. This is me hedging my bets on a slight resurgence to maybe 9 or 10 wins. Which would be enough to get them into a BCS bowl, where a rabid SEC runner-up will be waiting to tear apart their innards.
14. Oregon State Beavers – Jacquizz Rogers and his brother (whose name I’m too lazy to Google) are both dangerous and as long as Moivaio can keep the ball in the stadium I think this OSU will be dangerous. Few others have them in the top 25, I’m putting them in my top 15, lawya.
15. Penn State Nittany Lions – They’ll be good, but not great due to inexperience at a lot of positions. That being said Penn St is one of those schools that replaces talent with more talent. They’re perfect for this 15 slot, because it says “I like you a lot, and maybe even enough to take you home. But I wouldn’t want you to stay for longer than a couple hours.”
16. Oklahoma State Cowboys – They’ve got a lot of offensive firepower, but still no defense to match it. The opening game against Georgia in Stillwater will be a huge test that, if passed, earns them a ton more credibility. What loses them credibility is the molester nightmare fuel mascot, Pistol Pete.
17. Texas Tech – the dread pirate Leach keeps improving the situation down in Lubbock. Out goes Graham Harell, in comes another robo-QB, ready to throw for 50 touchdowns and 10,000 yards. Tech now competes against UT and OU for top talent in the state of Texas, and these kids will be moving into key roles on both sides of the ball. They’re not sailing away any time soon.
18. Cal Golden Bears – Jahvid Best is one of the better running backs in the nation. Ha! See what I did there? Oh, and Nate Longshore is gone, and so is the whipping boy of Cal fans.
19. Cincinnati Bearcats – Another team with a great offense and puny defense. Still, that offense is damned good. How good, you ask? I just told you: Damned good.
20. Georgia Bulldogs – They have to replace way too much from a team that wasn’t even that great to begin with. Richt is a good coach, but might be Frank Beamer – very good each year, but probably never a championship. Which isn’t awful. He’s ready and waiting for Mark Harmon to retire from that awful NCIS show, which could hurt recruits who have ever ventured outside and away from their television.
21. North Carolina Tar Heels – Butch Davis is getting his John Calipari on, spending big bucks to get the big players to a school not traditionally known for winning. Soon he’ll take his golden spaceship to a bigger gig (hello, Notre Dame!), but in the meantime he’s put together a good unit at UNC. I bet Jordan shares his collection of co-ed booty with Davis when Charles Oakley is out of town.
Welcome to Mid-Major Row (this wasn’t intentional, I swear)
22. Texas Christian Horny Toads – These guys are tough, as BYU and others learned last year. They’ve got Texas talent, thanks to A&M taking the decade off, and a coach who is vaguely aware of what he’s doing in Gary Patterson. They took Utah to the wire and shut down OU’s run game in losses last year. I think they win the MWC this year, and earn their trip to a BCS game.
23. Boise State Broncos – I always find this a tough team to read. They beat OU in what was the game of the century for them a couple years back, but it was really the only big, national stage game they’ve ever had. You can’t get up like that for every game, especially in the WAC, which is the conference of the Sisters of the Poor, and Utah State, who even has the pity of the sisters of the poor. That being said, put them up against any of these teams with a few weeks to prepare, and they’ll compete.
24. BYU Cougars – Similar to Okie State, BYU has a lot of talent, but lacking in defense. I think last year proved that against the Wyomings, Utah States and other slow, plodding teams, they can dominate. When matched up with speed, BYU looks lost (see: TCU, Utah). Having tough, hard-working walk-ons makes for great stories and gritty players, but it makes for a very, very vulnerable defense. Still, their white guys are generally better than your white guys, so there’s that.
25. Utah – Yeah they were awesome last year but Brian Johnson was a special player that will be hard to replace – particularly if the answer is Corbin Louks, more of a running QB than the thrower that Johnson was. They do however have a salty defense that returns one of the better secondaries. And their unis are made by Under Armour, who despite having European tendencies in their spelling preferences, tend to have cannibalistic American themes in their advertising:
Those are my thoughts. I could be wrong, but you’re probably wrong too. Please share your venom and blessings in the comments, if you could.
In case you haven’t been paying attention or just don’t care about sports, there is a massively important lawsuit beginning soon that could affect college sports on several levels.
In short: Sam Keller was a QB at Arizona State and then Nebraska. A pretty good player, but not a guy with much hope of playing in the NFL and making the millions associated with that league.
EA Sports is a video game producer known for it’s outstanding sports titles, most notably the Madden and NCAA Football series.
The NCAA of course is the main governing body over collegiate athletics and is known for their brutal enforcement of rules designed to keep their athletes “amateurs” and not paid pros, at least while they’re in college.
Keller has filed a class action lawsuit against EA and the NCAA recently seeking compensation for the fact both profited greatly using his and other players’ likenesses in NCAA Football games.
Why? Because of coincidences like this:
NOT TIM TEBOW
It’s just a coincidence that Florida has a white, left-handed QB wearing number 15 that is 6-2, 238. After all, private entities can’t make profits off current players, right? (Unless they’re the NCAA, of course)
I’ll admit I’m conflicted about this case. On one hand, I love the video game and like the fact that I’m playing with the actual players. If there were no similarities to real players, and OU had 5-10, 180 weenie Harold Haroldson at QB then yeah, the game would lose some of it’s luster.
But the rule is the rule – athletes can’t profit from their likenesses during school and no one outside their school and the NCAA is supposed to be able to as well.
If the NCAA wants to keep this rule, they’d better win this case. Because if Keller and co. win, there’s going to be a lot of fallout.
Consider this: What if the courts rule in the players’ favor and suddenly the NCAA is obligated to reimburse current and future players? I guarantee you not only would anything resembling the actual players would pop up in the games, but there will also be a domino effect on other licensed products.
I mean, is it any coincidence that stores that sell team apparel are suddenly moving a lot of Florida #15 jerseys? Is there some kind of renaissance for Brian Haugabrook unis? Or #14 from Oklahoma, #12 from Texas?
Gone from your local Foot Locker. If those are still around. Are they?
How about the ESPN commercial for their iPhone app that has a glimpse of Tebow?
The truth is, there’s no shortage of people making money off these kids, and the kids get nothing in return. Yes, they do receive a free education and all the chicks a man could stand, but does that compare to the millions of dollars that private companies have made off their likenesses?
The truth is, I don’t know where to stand on this one. On one hand, I think Sam Bradford should receive some of the money Reebok made selling items clearly intended to portray him.
But I also know the intentions of the NCAA in protecting the “amateur” status of student-athletes. If Tim Tebow is making millions (which he could be, although he isn’t at USC) then there’s nothing amateur about him.
I want to be able to play as Bradford in the game. But I also want Bradford to be able to enjoy his share of the booty. I can’t decide what side to be on, but it will be fascinating to watch it play out. Let’s just hope it doesn’t wreck the best sport in the universe.
I know I talk about Twitter quite a bit. It’s really not that exciting.
It DOES help my business as a PR guy and every time I mention it here, I get a lot of hits. So you WILL have to put up with it from time to time. You WILL be okay with this.
You’re bully right I’m okay with it, good sir!
A lot of my network on Twitter is comprised of Okies. I follow people like @SamSims @Newson6 @trey_brown and others because they keep me comprised on what’s happening in my home state, which in all honesty, I’m more concerned about than the state I live in. Sue me.
I consider some of them good friends, at least in that “never met you in person” way. I value their opinions and pay close attention to what they send out. Every week I add a couple more friends from the OK (as well as Utah and other places, don’t get all pissy with me).
So it came as no surprise a few months back when I was followed by one @tulsaoknews. The feed is basically a stream of links related to Tulsa from some unknown source, but they have some pretty good info. Sports stuff, national news that mentions Tulsa, local news, and the sort. I followed them back.
I was a little bummed a few weeks later when they unfollowed me. It’s a common tactic to build what looks like a “guru” profile: Follow tons of folks, wait for a lot of them to follow you back, then unfollow them. The end result is a lopsided number that let’s you walk around and say “People listen to me! And I don’t have to hear what they say back! LOL Nurdzzzz!”
I don’t go with it. I follow several people that don’t follow me back (like Shaq), but mostly if you don’t care to hear what I have to say, then I don’t care to hear what you have to say.
That little rant aside…I found myself surprised when I went to the TulsaOKNews profile page to double-check the unfollow, and there were a lot of familiar faces among those the account followed.
In fact, I knew every one of those faces.
I attributed it to the simple fact that it probably followed folks with an expressed interest in Oklahoma. But wait. Is that…
Those profiles with the circles around them are all Utah people. I know each of them personally. None of the give a hoot about Tulsa, except for the lovely wife, @loriloo310.
Did @tulsaoknews hijack my follow list? Yes, in fact. Every person on that list is someone that I follow or have followed in the past.
What’s interesting is they’ve developed more followers (like I said, it’s a useful stream), yet still only follow my old chunk.
I don’t know what to say about it. Is it bad or good? Like most things with Twitter, it’s really neither I suppose. No one has to follow anyone they’re not interested in, so I don’t pity the Utah folks it followed.
I think I’m more curious what tool they would’ve used to do such a thing. I’ve always considered creating a fake account for the fun of it, and I think @the_effiminate_shaq would want to follow @the_real_shaq’s people.
I guess more than anything I’m just pissed that they (@tulsaoknews) unfollowed me.
