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Ok so this is the second post in a row about Twitter. Am I obsessed? No. It is merely the fact that sometimes my mood will sway and I will want to blog, whereas other times I will not. But this seems like fun to chat about.

I just got Twibble for my mobile phone (cell phone for you yanks!), and like a n00b getting his first headshot in CS, I am shitting myself with excitement. Why? Cause I like new toys, especially if they are far overused…. hm

Anyways, though I am sure some of these have been brought up, I’d like to make a few easy points for the so-called “professionals” to bring up and get their name in the paper about. Anything new is predictably smashed by the older generations for being bad, evil, ungodly, unhealthy etc etc. So once the “high” wears off of “Oprah Uses Twitter Too!”, it is sure to be realised that Twitter gives us autism and cancer.

1. PissTweeting - Just like drunk-dialling. There is already PissTweeding (I’m guilty of this). How long until there is a big bad PissTweet in the papers? I can see it now. “Shane Warne Upgrades. PissTweets Picture of Mystery Girl In Bar. Says SMS Is A Thing Of The Past” - Yes it does have to be a sports player who does it.

2. TweetFucking - Though this will not be the politically correct name, I’m sure they (the media) will come up with something clever, like Sexting. TweetPeeping or something. Surely there will be a tweetpic of a scantily-clad 16yo jailbait of a girl. Then lo and behold, because her parents bow to Oprah they will be having fun and then WHAM! Find their daughter, the media spin will happen, and little whores around the world will be bustedddd. “TweetPeeping Toms Getting A TwitterFix from Twitteriffic Nudes In The Twitterverse.” - Though some may think the writer has had a stroke at this point…

3. Twitter Conversational Degeneration Syndrome - Or something bullshitty like that. Pretty much I assume it would be along the lines of because people tweet all those little things in their lives (tweets about me posting this) then the social and conversational system will be broken and teens (it’s always teens isn’t it?) will find themselves socially retarded and unable to hold a conversation in over 140 characters. “New Mental Illness Discovered, 140 Characters Of Twittered-Down Conversation.” - Of course there will be an “experienced” psychotherapist and evidence and cases of teenagers not talking as much as they were when they were children and didn’t use Twitter. See the stupidity? Well once the parents are scared, the media will have some good hype! No-one wants a retarded kid!

4. Suicide Tweets - I wonder if anyone will tweet a suicide note? I’m not sure which way that would go? Sure to be linked to Twitter though… Or the latest alternate rockstar… or Reality TV…

5. Twitter Copywright Claims - How long until someone tweets a brilliant idea and some clever fuck uses it. Then the original tweeter tries to make a claim to it and then (probably in America) a legal battle starts up? “Twift357 vs Oprah over Legal Twitter Dispute On Claims To The Idea of Broadcasting The Life Of Pimps.” - Well fuck, I couldn’t come up with an idea on the spot, which leads to..

6. Twitter Kills Creativity - Now like every new thing, there is going to be some other psychofuck claiming that because in Twitter, you microblog every little thought you have at times, you will be left empty and non-creative. “Tweeting A Blank Canvas, How Twitter Is Making Our Children Unimaginive.” - If anyone uses that title… I’m sooo taking them to court. That was imaginative and clever!!!

Anyways I think I might leave it at that. Feel free to follow MY twitter, and if you are fun I may follow you too. (Look on “Brain Sparks” on the side of this page)

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Oprah

Oh dear. What a fiasco we have here. You see there comes a time in every new piece of software’s life these days (mainly social, but this can branch into games or other programs too) where it will fully break through to the mainstream. And darling Twitter has finally made it into the mainstream A-List, with Oprah (A.K.A She-Jesus) Beginning to Tweet all aspects of her life.

What a fucking travesty. Now it really is bad enough I have to hear about here yo-yo weight and all that, but now…. this?

Don’t get me wrong, I like this woman. She has very good intentions, she helps people. She could start an army and take over the world if she really needed. The Church of Oprah would die for her I’m assuming. “Go to war for me and you all get… A BRAND NEW CARRRRRR!!!!”

But honestly, her using this new trend in social network, in my mind, relates to my computer illiterate aunt who can’t figure out why I use an alias while doing comic work (BECAUSE I AM MARS MADISON! THAT CHARACTER IS ME!!!) on things like Myspace or Facebook, using her own Facebook. It is nice the generation-gap in technology is being bridged (with a rickety old bridge that half the people don’t now how to cross). But there really is a limit…

HI TWITTERS . THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY .12:11 AM Apr 18th from web

- Oprah Winfrey, Twitter

From the very beginning, she was doomed with that one. Caps 4 n00bs!

Perhaps I really am just being a bit judgmental. I just think that if you either cannot tell me what colour #FF0000 is, think Goatse is a typo, or thinks furries sound cute and innocent…. I just don’t think you are ready for Twitter.

Fuck I lost the game

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It is no secret that I am like, at least a little insane.

And I love so be spontaneous, I like to change plans, I like to procrastinate

Procrastination is like Masturbation, In the end you’re just fucking yourself

- My Mother

I also get sad at times. And by sad I mean terribly depressed. I will lie in bed in the afternoon and cry over nothing. And the next day I will be all dressed up and out in public, making multiple scenes. That is the joys of bi-polar disorder, which is weighed down with depression too. So when I crash, my work crashes….

As you can see, the comic has not been updated in forever, there have been no VLogs, my Twitter went dead, the blog was empty of updates and even the domain name expired and the spam just kept building up.

I am trying to get better, but unfortunately thare is no quick-fix. Someone like me is not built for today’s world. Not to say I want to give up, but I still have a lot of trouble…

So for a while, this internet thingy shall only be used for leisure, without the pressure of rolling out a new comic or VLog (yes they are stressful! The fuckers need editing!)

Piece by piece, I am going to rebuild. But it will take time.

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So I haven’t kept up as well as I thought I would. And thought a blog post would be fun. So far my 2009 goals are failing pretty hard.

I have been keeping myself distracted by going out a bit and avoiding anything else at home by when I am home, watching episodes of Captain Planet.

It’s a pretty shitty cycle too. I have been ignoring all my responsabilities because I have been down, and because I have been ignoring my responsabilities, I feel even more down.

I’m just a total commitaphobe it seems, and it is biting me in the arse.

*sigh* *headdesk* So tired…

I hope to get it back together soon.

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Yeah I knew that all too well. Been so busy with some life issues that everything else has just been neglected.

So slowly but surely, I am sitting back down on my lazy arse and working on bringing everything back up to DATE!

Now unfortunately I do have a lot of work to do on the comic, and have been set back rather far. I have to completely replace a character… which means I have to literally go back and change every comic and re-upload them, as well as now, I am never basing characters on a real person again (besides me). Because when they are no longer worthy of being in said comic, I have to go back and change… fucking… everything. To much ache in my brain.

I started VLogging however, which can be seen here

http://www.youtube.com/user/6thFlare

Yeah don’t expect anything special.

My other self-improvement site has also been neglected and needs MASSIVE updates. Fortunately I still haven’t launched it. So that needs work too.

I made an eBay account too, and need to start selling shit for moneys (Is broke here!!!!!)

Today though, I started helping a friend start his own animation empire (and when that is up, I will be glad for him)

All in all, I have become pretty non-productive, and I am now, again, working on fixing that.

(Comic updates coming in the next few days)

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