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Wolverine, Swine Flu, Miss Destructo

by Brian on April 28, 2009

in Food, Health, Misc, Movies, Twitter

It’s not that I don’t think Wolverine be good, it’s just that as a ex-comic book junkie, I always felt what was cool about the character was his mysterious past.

A movie called X-Men Origins: Wolverine kinda kills that. However, I recently read the review at /film, and needed only three paragraphs to turn.

The opening scene kept me guessing as to how successful the film would ultimately be. It serves as a super-quick introduction to Logan’s rage and guilt, which are given as some kind of inner drive for him and visualised [sic] in the form of a howling motif we will see again and again.

I’m there – this is exactly what I wanted from it, yeah?

Swine Flu – I have it. It’s not that bad – I mean, it’s one of those “hurty” coughs, but like I can eat and exercise and everything. I’m sure it’ll pass.

Okay, here’s the real item on today’s agenda – one of my Twitter friends is a young lady who goes by the name of Miss Destructo. She’s cool, and funny, and more than anything, she loves Bruce’s Yams. (Her Twitter is here. Her blog is here.)

The company that makes this product – Bruce Food Company – has no social media presence, outside of Miss Destructo’s very organic and public love of them. With her permission, I went ahead and wrote a digital letter to the company, asking if they could please discuss hiring her to start jamming them on Twitter or Facebook or whichever social media thing will be big next week.

Here’s an excerpt – this is the part that made me laugh the most:

…and thus it is why I write you this day of yore.

Perhaps it is in our darkest hours, sirs, when the light may shine brightest? Perhaps the tempest of prophesy is upon us? To quote from Hamlet, if I may, sirs, and please excuse what mayhap, sirs, be construed as hyperbole:

“NAY, FATHER! NAY! NAY! NAY! WHAT DOST THOU DO!? NAY!”

The message then, sirs, is clear. Allow me to establish a quagmiric layout of procedural tempest with which one may assuage the binary methodologies, sirs, with which Miss Destructo may benefit your multi-state conglomorate of food supply business doings, sirs:

1) A three-pronged attack of social media, sirs, encompassing the following, including, but not limited to, sirs, the aforementioned Twitter, the venue by which I became associated with Miss Destructo in no less than three mannerisms. Tempest, again – you see this now, I assume.

2) Tempestual matters of this sort as shall be discussed, sirs, related to what we in the industry refer to as “Facebook Tempest” or “The Facebook Tempest”. A redux will perhaps be necessary, sirs, in the event of quakes of thine earth. Hurricanes known to be traditionally more dangerous amongst the smaller of the human race. Height, being an unqualified advantage in times of peril and yore.

Printed out, this digital letter is two pages in length. I’d pretty much pay anything to hear from whoever it is at Bruce’s Food Company who read it first, so if that’s you, please get in touch.

You can take up the cause for Miss Destructo by writing to info@brucefoodsla.com.

I’d suggest putting “GIVE MISS DESTRUCTO YO TWITTA” in the subject line, and then like anything short and sweet inside. I think my message laid out the tempest pretty well.

NOTE: We can add “yams” to that list of foods I’ve never actually had.

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  • goathair
    Yams and sweet potatoes are not the same thing. I found this out yesterday. Also, there is something that exists that is called "yam powder."
  • Gambit and Deadpool are enough reason for me to see Wolverine, altho the way they did X2 and 3 it feels like theyve done enough Wolverine (nerdiness over)
  • They should also do a Professor X spin-off, where he can fly and everyone calls him Superman.
  • i am aware of the fact that i'm comic-retarded, but....i don't get how the promo shows wolverine all metalled up as a kid, but in one of the movies he gets metalled up as an adult in an experiment. wtf?

    metalled. metalled.

    metalled.
  • I think his claws are bone as a lad. That doesn't explain why they're smooth when they get metalled, but it's something.

    The point is he's overcome with emotion A LOT.
  • TVBrain
    She came from Planet Claire.
  • I'm missing the reference.
  • TVBrain
    Pink air-blue hair, it's all the same. (First thing that popped into my head when I saw the Destructress was the B-52's song. Also, I am an idiot.)

    She came from Planet Claire
    I knew she came from there
    She drove a Plymouth Satellite
    Faster than the speed of light

    Planet Claire has pink air*
    All the trees are red
    No one ever dies there
    No one has a head
  • your letter is quite the eleemosynary treat. always looking out for the yam industry.
  • Also, unrelated to anything swiney, a thought occurred to me this morning as I was running at 7 am: the old logo for the National Guard. Do you know it Brian? You'd like it, being an early riser and all.
  • No, but are you talking about the one I just looked up that looks like the League of Roundie Henchmen logo?
  • I don't remember what it looked like, but it had the slogan "We do more before nine am than most people do all day". The new one looks too moderny. I like the old Minutemen logo.
  • I just came to your blog to tell you this and thought you had beaten me to the scoop. Alas, I win in the swine flu/Wolverine news category for today.
  • Greg Odens tonsils
    Every now and again I shave at the gym. But the lighting is poor so I don't do it often.
  • goathair
    I really don't want to get swine flu because I hate the taste of ham.
  • Neither do I
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