Friends, Romans, Countrymen

Or… “He’s already dead. Why do we have to come back after intermission? What else can happen?”

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You should know that I am typing this post on my cellular phone. And I feel kinda Ernest Hemingway-ish for that. Cuz even though he was a super macho alcoholic, I feel like he would have listened to Leo Laporte and been a major Android enthusiast.

Also you should know that I am currently wearing a denim miniskirt and a black racerback tank top with a regular bra. Classy. But also note that I am at the laundromat. So I totally fit in.

Dressing for one’s environment is an important life lesson. As is behaving according to the customs of your environment.

Having recently been publicly humiliated via Twitter by the Pacific Symphony, I feel like I’m an expert is this now.

(Btw, I think we should call this type of occurrence ‘Twittilation.’)

Last summer the Pacific Symphony dubbed one of its concerts a ‘tweetcert.’ That meant you were encouraged to tweet during the concert and interact with other fans. Good times.

But not allowing myself to be constrained to only one concert…I started tweeting at EVERY concert. Including super fancy ones in the super fancy concert hall.

So yeah. It finally caught up with me at the Fourth of July Elvis concert, wherein the Pacific Symphony replied to my tweets thusly:

@ihearttalkradio We appreciate your tweets! But the real tweetcert is at the July 16 concert with The 5 browns.

Right. So they totally think I’m an uncouth hillbilly now. Awesome.

P.S. I promise I’m not changing the name of this blog to iheartthepacificsymphony.com. It’s still about talk radio.

P.P.S. It is – I mentioned Leo Laporte in this post! That counts.

P.P.P.S. Stay tuned for a delightful reimagining of Julius Caesar in which Bill Handel is Julius Caesar and Gary Hoffmann is Brutus. Only instead of being stabbed 23 times by a gang of conspirators, the morning crew pelts Handel with 23 bagels. WITH cream cheese.

Robert Frost was a huge stud

Or, When I see birches bend to left and right.

Add one more to Leo Laporte’s already long list of technology-related podcasts. The inaugural episode of This Week in Google debuted on Saturday. Hosted by Leo, Gina Trapani and Jeff Jarvis, TWig “talks about the latest Google and cloud computing news.” (I don’t know what cloud computing news means. Shhh…don’t tell Leo.)

Even though I’m not a super computer geek, I decided to give it a listen. I mean, I like Google. I use Gmail.

I may have presumed too much.

One of Leo’s best attributes is that he makes technology make sense to normal people. People who know how to email and upload their own photos (ahem, Mom – you need to figure that out). People who know what Twitter is and wonder what the big deal is. People who have one or two computers they bought at a store, not seven computers in various stages of assembly they are building themselves.

On the other hand, this Gina Trapani goes on and on about android phones and pubsubhubbub. I mean, she really loves that pubsubhubbub. She said it like 10 times. Like it’s an everyday word. Like “elitist.”

While I don’t think this podcast is targeted to me, you Subway-eating, Tweeting, text editor-using (because Microsoft Office is too prosaic), Google fans will probably love it.

I’m going to go wash the geek off.

Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs
Broken across it, and one eye is weeping
From a twig’s having lashed across it open.