Here is a list of tweets I am not interested in.
- Tidbits from the conference you’re attending
- Anything about Conan O’Brien
- Retweets of any of the 4 million Hulk streams
- Real-time reactions to the TV show you’re watching*
- More than like three hashtag jokes in a row
- Your flight status
Thank you.
*Unless I am watching the same thing. In which case, you should definitely tweet about it.
Knowing that we follow each other and that I’m guilty of 2, 4 and 5 makes me feel QUITE sheepish.
I won’t apologize for my love of Conan, though. You can’t make me!
Well, I feel sheepish that my blathering made anyone feel sheepish. Certainly nothing aimed at anyone specifically, just a list of things I scroll past without reading. Plus #4 should make it clear that I’m mostly holding people to unattainable standards of perfection while entertaining me. I myself am guilty of it JUST LAST NIGHT.
Conan, though…what am I missing? The last time I watched Conan was in 2004 and I couldn’t believe how not funny it was.
As cheesy as it sounds, watching Late Night with Conan O’Brien in the mid-90s as a teenager really helped shape and define my sense of humor. People say he’s not as edgy or absurd now as he was then (and I don’t necessarily disagree), but I feel this nostalgic debt to him for introducing me to comics and comic ideas that I don’t think I’d have encountered with Jay Leno.