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How Many Twitter Accounts I Have

by Brian on March 16, 2010

I think it’s well known, due to a certain association with the movie Who Shot Mamba?, that I run the accounts for @InflatableBen and @OrangeRoundie.

At certain other times, I may have also run something known as @jerryricetwo.

The much-beloved JR2 was suspended because they thought I was trying to impersonate the famous football stud, Jerry Rice.

Clearly not true, per the “two” and the “NOT DAT FOOTBALL STUD!! CAN’T CATCH!!!” in his bio.

Every now and then it’s revealed to someone that I may have other accounts, as well. For example, I got this DM yesterday.

Alright, fess up…how many Twitter accounts DO you have?!! lol.

If honesty is going to happen, I just counted and there are somewhere between 4 and 19,478 in all right now. (Facebook presences and additional blogs aren’t included in that range.)

I’m not listing them and they’re not all “mine”, anyway.

Anyone who’s read my work – made/unmade movies, books, things I haven’t let anyone read yet – can find a number of them.

Starting accounts ahead of time for projects that look promising is smart if you’re a content creator – get out front of it a bit. It’s not like I’m manning these things all day – just quietly building them in case what they’re a part of comes to fruition.

I could write more about this, but note that I started Orange Roundie and Inflatable Ben like 6-8 months before the movie came out, and they never, ever talked about the movie until it was actually out there.

There’s actual value in their existence beyond the project they’re associated with, and that’s important.

Other ones I run (or oversee) are clients’ business/personal accounts, and not for me to reveal. I manage it all via Tweetdeck and Seesmic desktop.

LOL!

smh

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Twitter in 2010

by Brian on February 22, 2010

in Cleveland Cavaliers, Screenwriting, Twitter

(I fully support the picture to the right.)

So upon return from my big-time Twitter/Facebook/whatever hiatus, the question becomes, “what now?”

To answer this question, I need to make a bullet-point list, and then put the bullets in little digital disguises that make them look like numbers.

For example, take these bullet-points:

*
*
*

Once I’ve finished getting their espionage clothes on them, they’ll look more like this:

1)
2)
3)

You see?

As the alleged numbers explain the positives and negatives behind why I should and/or should not be an avidly aggressive Tweeter, nobody will even know that they’re really bullet-points, and that’s how the logic starts to come into place?

Anyway, in the two weeks I was gone, I wrote a complete screenplay, two full movie treatments, did good on the other thing I do, and got in six fewer I’m-Tweeting-while-driving based car wrecks.

Take that for what you will, and please let me know where to buy little hats for those bullets, because that will look so cool on them when they’re doing their spy work.

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Internet Hiatus Begins (Back 2/22)

by Brian on February 4, 2010

in Facebook, Health, Misc, Screenwriting, Twitter, WSM?

So I am very close to getting my Nexus One SuperPhone, and in preparation for that – as well as recuperation from WSM? – I am going away for a couple weeks.

I also have a script to finish that requires some underwater research – eliminating all distractions and not getting electrocuted is essential.

No blog posts.
No instant messaging.
No Facebook.
No Twitter.

I even deleted UberTwitter from my phone – frankly I need to rethink the manner in which I personally use Twitter altogether.

Anyway, I’ll see you on or around Monday February 22nd – of course I’ll have email, but like I might be deleting every third message just as a kind of sport or game of chance with myself.

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I Bring Books

by Brian on February 3, 2010

in Authors, Books, Twitter

Hey so I don’t read anymore because of my paranoia I didn’t tell you about, but I wanted to expose you to two books – one I have actual light involvement with, and the other I am el friends with the author.

First on tap is Rob Gokee’s In the Belly of the Fail Whale: How Twitter Changed My Life in One Year. (Here’s a link to buy at it on Amazon.)

While the title might be a bit long, it also saves me from having to tell you what the book is actually about.

Rob was also cool enough to ask me to write the foreword – you may remember he was the one who actually pushed/shoved me to get on Twitter.

An excerpt from what what I put inside:

“Sigh,” I said to myself out loud, admiring my new haircut.

Anyway, if you’re into Twitter or into Rob or into books or into whatever, maybe go pick this up. I’ve read it – it’s worth taking a look, and also has my name on the cover, as noted above.

The other book is by Dr. Natasha Valdez, who was an Associate Producer on WSM? with her life-pal (nay, husband) Charles Solomon, Jr.

I’ve known both for years and have spent time enough to know that her new book A Little Bit Kinky: A Couples’ Guide to Rediscovering the Thrill of Sex (Amazon link) will likely do exactly what it says it’s supposed to.

Now, I don’t do that sex stuff anymore because of my paranoia about catching bronchitis, but when I read this I was like, “Wow, maybe bronchitis will be worth it, cause like this rediscovery does sound pretty thrilling.”

For example, there’s one chapter that I can’t talk about here on my PG/PG-13 blog website, and that’s a chapter that will help me for sure if I ever want to get bronchitis.

In conclusion and furthermore, while I can’t say either of the titles of these books are quite as descriptive and exact as my own Prelude to a Super Airplane – which tells you exactly what it’s about – I can tell you that these are both worth reading, should you have the urge to do reading at something.

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Never Break Character

by Brian on January 9, 2010

in Actoring, Twitter, WSM?

That’s like an actoring tip. Sorry if this is hard to read.

@InflatableBen is in jail, too. The fact that these two are clearly not really Ben Wallace and Jerry Rice – and never, ever claimed to be – has eluded el Twitter.

Crippling to Team Mamba where Ben is concerned. Very disappointing – hope they clear this up.

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Am I Too Futurist For My Own Good

by Brian on October 15, 2009

in Best Buy, Facebook, Twitter

I sometimes worry about this issue, because like I’ll see a new technology, and immediately envision how it’s going to be supplanted by something else.

Once this happens, it’s rendered useless in my mind. Like the Kindle is clearly the 1st-generation cell phone of ebook readers. It doesn’t even have internet access or anything, except to talk to Amazon.

Another one I’ve already devalued is Blu-Ray, cause like any media being stored on a physical disc just seems like it’ll be irrelevant within a couple years. At the same time, I’m fully aware I’m missing out a bit on something I’d like.

And like why can’t I get nanobots inside me now – I don’t want to wait.

Do people still use bikes.

What.

What technology have you given up on for being pre-out-of-date in your mind.

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Growing Up Mamba

by Brian on October 13, 2009

in Twitter, WSM?

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, we had to move WSM? off that October 13th date.

That’s just for online viewing – the DVD will be available soon, and the “I burned this on the Mac and dropped it in an envelope because you asked nicely” version is available now, with a couple disclaimers and favors in return.

This note came through on Facebook to me, and it was funny, sad, and cool all at once.

my friends and i wasted so much time as seniors in high school reading yaysports in class instead of working and i remember the summer you started talking about this movie. we’re all now about to graduate college and starting to get real jobs and the movies finally coming out so were all going back home and getting together to watch it. looking forward to it man.

At least they aren’t having kids yet.

But seriously, it’s cool to get stuff like that, and hopefully by the end of October I’ll know what the next step is. The plan is more-or-less that we get a new distributor by 10/31 or it’s just go-go-go on November 10.

Sorry I haven’t written much longform lately – almost anything that comes out is going into my next book, and then there’s Twitter.

I’m all like “why does it smell like Burger King” & my friend’s like “there’s one right there” & I’m like “oh”. :/
about 21 hours ago from TwitterBerry

MYMHM @brianspaeth Best conversation ever. Specially cuz you could re-tell it in one tweet. Win.
about 21 hours ago from Seesmic

@MYMHM Thanks for noticing – a year ago that would’ve been a 400-word blog post. lol
about 21 hours ago from TwitterBerry

How many pairs of shoes do you have, and have you ever smelled a Burger King from a block away -

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When @jenn85 Was Happier

by Brian on September 25, 2009

in Girls, Twitter, WSM?

While most of my time this week was spent in anticipation of Surrogates, one portion was spent buying shoes for @jenn85 on Twitter.

A lot of stuff happened and then happened some more. The end result of a long story was the following:

How tumultuous is that.

I’m not one to air my personal problems in public – I’m much more into promoting my numerous fake marriages – but this was tough on my heart.

And I’m talking about the one that has feelings, not the much more machine-like and functional organ.

What do you think about everything on Earth.

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My Hot Experience With Yahoo! Meme

by Brian on September 10, 2009

in Brad Radby, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo!

(I’m guesting over at The No Look Pass today – may or may not be up yet as you read this.)

So Yahoo! has broken out with their Twitter clone, titled Yahoo! Meme.

I got an early invite, and near as I can tell, I’m the first person on there from the United States, and one of the 2% of users who speak English. Apparently the Meme is big in Portugal, and that country even has its own language and everything.

Being put in this position does have its advantages. For example, I was the first person in history to talk about all of the following on Yahoo! Meme: Michael Jordan, unicorns, honkies, and candy. Can someone put this in my Wikipedia.

My early impression of the service is as follows:

1) I can’t find any people who speak English.

2) There’s no search function for topics, only people.

3) When I search for people, they’re all from Portugal.

4) I’ve been told that “meme” is pronounced “meeme”, which really bothers me. If you’ve read my Brad Radby book (warning: that’s an Amazon link), you know I love memes – I always said it as “mehm”.

5) There’s like this way they make it creepy for you, in that some of the links are like, “go see your meme”. It makes it sound like it’s part of your body, or some pseudo-sexual thing. I say quit trying to be clever and get some functionality in there.

6) Generally, I have no idea wtf I’m supposed to do with my meme.

So there you go – and it’s a big relief I don’t feel any pull to add another another social networking site to the daily routine.

What’s your favorite thing to eat for breakfast that isn’t a breakfast food, and also have you ever put a rock in a microwave, and does the rock get warm if you do that.

(I’m guest-blogging every day somewhere different between now and year-end. If you want a post, let me know and I’ll put you on the sched. Also, go join the Facebook Page for my movie.)

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WSM? Savor Chat Test

by Brian on September 4, 2009

in Facebook, NFL, Twitter, WSM?

Big love to the big big precious that is Savor Chat.

This is something I’m gonna installing over at the WSM? site for each episode page – like basically an ongoing (i.e. eternal and forever, like romance marriages) chat room/window.

What’s nice about this is you can log in with your Facebook or Twitter, and it gives you the option to send that message back to your account, if one wants to encourage love for the movie.

So like this is great for meeting new pals who are also fans, and for watching eps with friends, and we’re gonna run like live director/actor/everyone commentaries in some form on a regular basis.

(Maybe we can even get Little Timmy.)

It also runs smooth as heck, and the company told me they’re supposed to be rolling out the customization features this weekend.

I have to thank @mfeige and @LostJello for spurring my brain into searching out such an application – they both have DVDs, and live-Tweeted their watching of them one day.

Do you think this is a feature you would use, and also do you get paranoid that Snyder’s Brand Hard Pretzels will snap your teeth off, and what is your favorite NFL team and are you excited about them this season.

(I put a picture of Rambo up on the Facebook Page – will you go and put up your pics of people who aren’t in the movie.)

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