Throw up, Zac Efron and My Little Pony.
Apr 17th by JonLast night a friend of mine challenged me about how I’m using Twitter, which is not much. He’s really enjoying connecting with people via Twitter. And I have to admit that as a writer I love the challenge of trying to communicate something in less than 140 characters. I ramble on this site all the time, so the thought of being creatively confined is pretty interesting to me. And since I’m not writing 97 second with God right now and doing much on the prodigal Jon site I have a bunch of ideas that don’t really have a home. (The fastest way to make Stuff Christians Like suck is for me to cram a bunch of my random thoughts that have nothing to do with the site on it. And connecting it all to this site would add to the clutter. Promise.) So expect more Twitter and more Facebook from me in the coming months. And if you don’t use either, please just know that you are missing gems like this:
From my Twitter post this morning at 6:00AM
I can’t prove this but I think the more precisely you plan your day and schedule, the greater chance your daughter throws up in her hair.
From my Facebook status:
I can’t tell if “17 again” is referring to how old Zac Efron’s character is in his new movie or the number of times they’ve made a film where an adult is turned into a kid and gets to “do life all over again.” Long live “Big.” Shimmy, shimmy coco pop. Shimmy, shimmy rock.
From my Facebook status:
Care Bears are to My Little Pony as the Generals are to the Harlem Globetrotters. My daughter acknowledges their existence but the Ponies are on a completely different level than the bears could ever hope for.
From my Facebook status:
When someone tells you “I just want the best for you” what they really mean is “I just want my personal definition of the best for you.”
Follow me on Facebook or Twitter if you want in on the upcoming cornucopia of words. If not, I promise I’ll pray for you.
Comments
Don’t worry about Twittering or Facebooking. I don’t do any of those things, don’t want to, don’t have time, and somehow…..I’m surviving.
People, I’m telling you, following Jon on Facebook is life changing. I have never seen such expert use of verbs. Really.
How about:
Last Baptist Church of Anytown
Laodicean Community Church
Steve -
I want you to thrive, not just survive!
Didn’t that kind of sound like a successories poster?
You are more than welcome to throw that on top of a photo of a man standing in front of a huge boulder with only his plucky spirit as a companion and seal it in some sort of golden hued frame for your home or office. For free, that one was my Friday gift.
WV: fambowly
what you say when you hear something crazy.
“Steve doesn’t care to know my thoughts about My Little Pony. That is straight up fambowly!”
Jon
If GOD had intended me to twitter, he would have made be a budgie.
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Remember how God connected with Elijah via Twitter? (I Kings 19)
I follow you on this website, on Facebook, on Twitter, and on foot. I’m still trying to figure out which is most rewarding.
I live for the My Little Pony and throwup updates. It makes me feel less alone…
(That might make a good caption for a poster too.)
Twitter is the perfect place for your fun, random thoughts & comments. Keep it real. =)
I have noticed more tweets from you and I gotta say, there ooozing frigintastic-ness. (That’s Nick the Geek patent-pending phrase, btw.) Speaking of NtG, his goal is to tweet exactly 104 characters each time he posts. I, however, need more like 652 characters, so Twitter has been a serious learning curve for me.
140, not 104. I have to correct this or NtG will rebuke me
Good thing I’m on Twitter and FB cuz yeah, you wouldn’t pray for me anyway. I remember that post….
How ’bout the quote “I’d follow Christ if He was on Twitter.” Probably didn’t see that on your site.
I appreciate the extra twittering! You are quite good at relaying wit through the internets in only 140 characters.
Jon, check out ping.fm and Tweetie (the latter if you have a Mac or iPhone, if not, find another client that does what I’m about to say). Basically, you post in one place and it updates it in others.
I use Tweetie on my iPhone and it pushed my update to Ping.fm, which then pushes to Facebook, MySpace, Plaxo, LinkedIn, etc. I used to use Ping.fm directly and post to twitter as well, but now I’m using Tweetie to actually use twitter as intended: interaction.
There’s a super easy way to hear people say that they want their personal definition of what’s best for you: tell them you’re a gay christian. They’ll mask “their” with “God’s.” It works almost every time which is pretty sad for me.
Hey everyone. I just posted an interview with Jon over at lifespringcommunity.com. Just thought you would like to give it a listen.
Twitter just annoys me, so I always ignore tweets (just that word bugs me)- but I love me some FB. I cracked up this morning when I read the “Shimmy Shimmy coco pop. Shimmy Shimmy rock”. And I will admit that I checked FB status on my BB before I even got out of bed. So sad, I know.
When someone tells you “I just want the best for you” what they really mean is “I just want my personal definition of the best for you.”
Oh so true. Please tell me you’re blogging about this sometime soon!
I thought you were throwing up BECAUSE of Zac Efron.
WV: moron
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I’m with you–I “love the challenge of trying to communicate something in less than 140 characters.” I’ve even urged students in my copywriting courses to sign up for Twitter, just as a creative writing exercise.
Also, I think you should write a post about people who “only want what’s best for you.” In some ways they’re worse than blatantly judgmental Christians, because they’re trying to conceal their judgment behind a pretty, shiny veneer.
Take it from a marketing professional. That was an excellent post. Already following you on all. Even re-tweeted you today about the daughter’s throw up! Have a great weekend with the fam!
WV: phelenta – Ick! that sounds grossly like medical waste of some sort.
Marni,
I was scrolling up to start typing 140 characters not 104 when I saw your correction. You are forgiven. It is funny that you know I would have to say something though. I’m becoming to predictable and that doesn’t fit with my modus operandi.
PS yes I very much like going for exactly 140 characters. I’ve been getting pretty good at it and only occasionally have to add an extra space or something. It is like a game to hit the magic number.
“Big” is the bestest fo’ shiz. Forget “13 Going on 30″ and all that snazz. I feel like now I should include the word schnoz.
i got the feeling that 17 Again was one big showcase or advertisement for Zac Efron… but i’ll probably buy the DVD when it comes out anyway
Those are pretty funny. A good blog I’ve started reading (that doesn’t take up much time at all) is 22 words, which gives a nice little blurb for a given day.
It prompted me to start blogging again, because I realized I didn’t have to put all of my thoughts out there to get people thinking, and spend a half hour or more on every post.
whoa! “Big” was a kid skipping most of his life and trying out adulthood. So was “13 going on 30″.
There was a Disney movie called “Seventeen Again” that was about two Grandparents doing the same thing, the thing was, the grandaughter look exactly like her grandma did, so there was some confusion…anyways….
Sorry, have both- both are boring to me and I guess I am not that interesting. Does anybody outside or honestly inside my ministry care that I about to buy cream of chicken soup and I am standing in line?