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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    10/28/09

    In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
    Why is anyone giving the guy shit over this? He in fact didn't whine, he made good-natured fun of himself the whole time, including characterizing himself as whining when he patently wasn't. I don't have a TV either, for pretty much exactly the same reason Ames gives -- I suck at making big ticket purchases and put it off forever. I'm a total junkie of TV, but I'm getting it off Hulu and Netflix for the time being. Maybe I'm biased because of this, but he seems lovely to me. #jonathanames
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    10/29/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: He was whining, but with enough self-awareness that he was whining to try to play it off as self-aware joking whining but with just enough real whine that people would get the point that he was actually whining. You know, whining. Or something.

    The good news is that with so much discussion of his whining, semantic satiation has blasted the concept straight out of my mind, so now I don't think anyone is whining at all. #jonathanames
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    10/29/09

    @celery: Do you actually know him, or have access to other information than what's included here, or is this just your alternative reading? I don't mean this in a combative way, I'm just curious. #jonathanames
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    Image of BowlingForDollars BowlingForDollars
    10/27/09

    In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
    Seriously? The man creates and sells a TV show to HBO, and it never occurred to him to go buy a TV so that he might actually watch it?

    What a moron. #jonathanames
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    10/27/09

    In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
    Who is that handsome 19th century Jewish man?
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    Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith promoted this comment SanjivaniChrysippus was starred SanjivaniChrysippus was unstarred
    Image of JacquesPaysan JacquesPaysan
    10/27/09

    In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
    Just FYI, Ames totally has a TV. I have a friend who housesat for him once. Fucking, precious, oversharing douche. #jonathanames
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    10/27/09

    @JacquesPaysan: Merci for the clarification. Now I don't feel so bad for judging him to be a douche just based on his cap and studied "thinker" pose in the pic above. #jonathanames
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    Image of ms_priestypants ms_priestypants
    10/27/09

    In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
    I'm going to get a twitter account and start hinting about a pony. And a new mac. #jonathanames
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    10/28/09

    @ms_priestypants: Laugh if you like, but I've gotten a digital camera, a netbook, and a $180 power cord just by whining on Twitter. #jonathanames
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    10/28/09

    @raincoaster: what? really? because I was only half kidding about that pony. #jonathanames
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    10/28/09

    @ms_priestypants: Really. I occasionally blog The Swag Report. Oh, and two weeks ago I got a swanky $100 brunch with a dashing explorer at a fine hotel, partly because of whining. One of my first online experiences was getting flown across the country and driven to meet Viggo Mortensen. That was only half whining, though; the other half was making amusing dirty jokes, also not a skill I thought I could monetize. #jonathanames
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    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    10/27/09

    In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
    Dear Mr. Ames,

    Your TV show needs snappier pacing and editing. The wit is there and the jokes are there but they shockingly fall flat.

    Us #jonathanames
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    10/27/09

    In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
    Ames, you're a writer. Words are your sacred weapon. Why do you abuse your weapon as such? Does it save you that much precious time to lower-case "i" instead of capitalizing it--"I"--as per proper written English language conventions? Does it save you that many seconds if you DON'T capitalize the first letter of a sentence?

    ..While we're at it.
    "JASON Schwartzman," not "Jonathan Schwatzman." #jonathanames
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    10/28/09

    @snugbug: He's just that old school:
    "Reduced to i by 1137 in northern England, it began to be capitalized c.1250 to mark it as a distinct word and avoid misreading in handwritten manuscripts. "

    source [www.etymonline.com] #jonathanames
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    10/28/09

    @therealgoogle: What a great little nugget.. Maybe Ames should write piece of fiction whereby he imagines what William the Conqueror would have tweeted during the Battle of Hastings. Lowercase "i" and all. (Gaah, this wouldn't work because William was/spoke French.. We would need a speaker of Anglo-Saxon as the protagonist..) #jonathanames
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    10/28/09

    @snugbug: or a Twitterama (the Battle of Hastings in four twits)

    williamconq: @haroldharold, i see you're standing @ridge #holdingposition
    haroldharold: @williamconq show self or u dead?
    williamconq: @everyone, here i am waving hat, lol #fightsux
    haroldharold: @normandyhorses, thy damn of it, more troops! #death

    Williamconq was, of course, translated with babblefish #jonathanames
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    10/28/09

    @therealgoogle: By Odin's bones and the robes of the druids, that was brilliant!

    [Later..]

    haroldharold @all: i need to appease the Gods with the sacrificial body and bounty of an ox to ensure win. #desperate

    williamconq @haroldharold: LOL, a-hole, it's going to be called "beef" once my language takes over your language! #passthepâté
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    10/28/09

    @snugbug: It's Twitter. Maybe he's not pompous enough to give that much of a crap about it. Sometimes he capitalizes, sometimes he doesn't. Or maybe he's ahead of his time -- I think there's a good case to be made for not capitalizing i, actually: [www.nytimes.com] #jonathanames
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    10/28/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: I admit I loved that Caroline Winter NYT piece you linked to, even though I disagree with her thrust. It's true that language is a living body that evolves constantly, but the capped "I" thing is quite a lovely relic from an Anglo-Saxon root language. It deserves to be maintained, especially since contemporary English is such a simplified Germanic language--it uniquely has un-gendered nouns, for example. I don't even know what I mean here, I'm just happy to be talking nerdy stuff that excites me on a dead thread..
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    10/27/09

    In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
    He seems tortured by the sudden prickly suspicion that there are millions of thoughtful people such as himself who will refuse to watch his quirky little show, even if they are given free televisions.
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    10/27/09

    In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
    He looks very woodsy and thoughtful. My guess is that he is not. #jonathanames
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    Image of Hiphopopotamus Hiphopopotamus
    10/27/09

    @m4ximusprim3: I had the chance to work with him on something a long while ago - He actually is a really nice and thoughtful guy. Not at all woodsy. Not even close.
    Does a great storytelling about his first time smoking crack... #jonathanames
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    10/27/09

    @Hiphopopotamus: You might be able to find it on The Moth podcast. I heard that story there. #jonathanames
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    10/19/09

    In reply to "Bored To Death" Is Annoyingly Cute
    The cast is good, and the writing is good, but the whole show has this air of twee preciousness I have never ever associated with Jonathan Ames work. Heck, his work is so un-twee and un-precious it’s hard to understand how it got distilled on the screen like this.

    I think it comes down the the stiff direction and editing. When you read Jonathan Ames work it’s snappy, witty an concise. Heck, when he reads his own work it sparks to life. This show? Mehhh. Get snappier direction and editing and it would be tons more fun. #boredtodeath
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    Image of moralkiosk000 moralkiosk000
    10/19/09

    In reply to "Bored To Death" Is Annoyingly Cute
    "HBO has been in a major rut when it comes to new original comedies since Sex and the City went off the air. "

    What about Flight of the Conchords?
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    10/18/09

    In reply to "Bored To Death" Is Annoyingly Cute
    Isn't calling a show "Bored to Death" tempting fate in a most flippant manner? If I were HBO I'd watch my back. The gods on Mount Nielsen don't appreciate irony. #boredtodeath
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    10/18/09

    In reply to "Bored To Death" Is Annoyingly Cute
    Ted Danson is terrific in Bored to Death. He lights up every scene he's in, and I find him totally believable as a megalomaniacal big-city magazine editor. The show is interesting, with some flashes of strong writing, though tonight's episode was uneven at best. But the current season of Curbed is crapola. Larry David shrieking "it's pretty... pretty... pretty.. pretty... good" got old three seasons ago. The last non-stop hilarious Curbed episode starred Krazee-Eyes Killa, though Super Dave makes me laugh every moment he's on. #boredtodeath
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    10/18/09

    In reply to "Bored To Death" Is Annoyingly Cute
    Curb is having one of the best seasons to date provided you haven't watched any of the previous seasons. #boredtodeath
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    Image of Cunning_Linguist Cunning_Linguist
    10/18/09

    In reply to "Bored To Death" Is Annoyingly Cute
    I think that apart from Galifianakis, Dandon is the best part of this show. His explanation of his renewed love of women's armpit hair was freaking delightful.

    I also think these characters are better drawn than most of the ones in Sex and the City. Plus I don't have to look at Sarah Jessica Parker. #boredtodeath
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    Anthony De Rosa promoted this comment Cunning_Linguist was starred Cunning_Linguist was unstarred
    Image of hollygirl hollygirl
    10/19/09

    @Cunning_Linguist: I agree, he's delightful and believable. Best part of a cutesy concept. #boredtodeath
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