Do you remember when President George Bush refused to eat his broccoli for lunch? No, not that George Bush. The other one, George H.W. Bush. What a hoopla caused by that incident. You would have thought someone attacked us, it made all the papers. Remember the broccoli farmers threatened to sue for defamation or something like that. I guess they were afraid people would follow suit…Well, if the President doesn’t have to eat his broccoli, neither do I!

 

Remember when the major networks would report what the President ate for lunch practically every day? Well, of course, they still do. Now they put it on the web. A list of our past and present Presidents favorite foods made the August 1, 2009 MSN home page, as the A-List of Hot Topics, believe it or not. You can check it out.  President Obama'a, George Bush, and George H.W. Bush's favorite foods are listed at US President's'  Favorite Foods. 

 

I remember when that big news story hit the fan so to speak. I said to my Mom, “George Bush had a BLT for lunch. Did you want to know that?

 

She replied, “Did they give us a bathroom report too?”

 

“No, but his colonoscopy doctor’s report came back okay. The bathroom report will be on tomorrow’s, Inside Edition…

 

I added, “The President is constipated. News at 11:00.”

 

That’s it…I figured if anyone cared what I ate for lunch, I would have arrived. I’d be famous. I would be on…oh wow!  Inside Edition. I would have my dream job-Celebrity! Famous Celebrity, that is.

 

              

 

 

Well, someone now cares, believe it or not, Twitter, a new social networking site cares. It asks the question, “What are you doing?”

 

Well, if my public really wants to know; “I’m eating a BLT sandwich for lunch,” I typed or in Twitter language, tweeted on the site.

 

Yippee, 9 followers, strangers really care what I ate for lunch! I’m now a celebrity!

 

Hurrah! I’m famous!

 

Of course, all of those celebs have a lot of what Twitter calls followers on its site. Followers are strangers listening, or should I say reading your every word! And they really, really, really care about what their idols are doing right this minute, which includes eating lunch. What is the President eating right this minute I wonder? Is he having a beer with lunch? And just think Joe and Jane Public gets this big news direct from the horse’s mouth! No pesky nosy middlemen media people lurking in the bushes trying to get a picture of lunch with a zoom camera lens at the White House.

 

Of course, it’s not just the President who is on Twitter. I hear he has 2,155,000 followers. It is also the Hollywood celebs too!

 

Actor Ashton Kutcher is probably the best known for his love of tweeting. His 3,536,659 followers, 1,381,659 more than the President, love to follow his tweets. Ashton says he loves to leave the pesky media out of the loop. Presumably his wife, and fellow celebrity actress, Demi Moore with 1,967,755 of her own followers is his most faithful follower. Gee, she used to be the latest, and the greatest young thing.  My 45 year old neighbor 20 years ago named his daughter Demi, after Demi Moore. The 41 year old actress, Demi Moore, has now been eclipsed by her 30 year old husband, Ashton, with 1,568,904 less followers than her husband! Nowadays, parents may name their child Ashton, but not Demi!

 

Comedian Micahel Ian Black, award winning cyclist Lance Armstrong, and many others are also very popular celebrities on Twitter with followers numbering in the thousands.

 

One advantage of celebrity tweeting is that the celebs can crush rumors. If the cougar Demi suddenly finds she is pregnant from the tabloids by her young stud of a husband Ashton, Ashton can tweet, “You must be joking. She’s through menopause all ready!”

 

Of course, Twitter not only can squash celebrity run away rumors, but start them as well.

Patrick Swazey, and Jeff Goldblum were both pronounced dead, not in a metaphorically way as in off celeb status, but dead as in deceased, by Twitter ruminators. Like Mark Twain, famous celebrity author of his day, they both had to report, “Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”

 

As I looked over President Barrack Obama’s Twitter page, I didn’t see any bathroom reports, or reports of colonoscopies, just that he liked pizza, and he liked to drink beer with a Harvard professor, a Vice-President, and a policeman.

 

Oh, wait….Breaking News! This just in! I just tweeted my own bathroom report on Twitter. Can you believe this “shit”? Now you know what happened to my lunch. I’ll be sure to let you all, my public of 9, know what happens with my first colonoscopy. On Twitter, of course. 

 

 

You can see my Twitter reports at http:twitter.com/LWagen

 

Oh, come on now.

 

Do you really care?

 

 

 

 

Jake Coyle, “Is Twitter Becoming the News Outlet for the 21st Century, “The Arizona Republic, Arizona Living, E-1-2, July 9, 2009.

 

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