paulscheer:

One of my favorite editorialists, Joel Stein asked me to take part in his latest articles about the way people tumblr, twitter, blog. I was more than happy to help.

I thought the article came out great but Joel mentioned they had to cut out this one section he was fond of and he encouraged me to Tumble it, so now you can get the special edition of his article, the way it was meant to be read. Before the man interfered…..

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It’s even starting to make us all better conversationalists, learning to pare our stories down to the size appropriate for their content. “If your grandma had a twitter, that story about the time she met Tony Curtis would be a lot funnier and a half hour shorter,” said Scheer. “I would love to get my grandmother a twitter. Instead, she calls to tell me a tiny thought instead. I was dating this girl who was Jewish and my grandmother called to say, ‘Those Jews could have fought back in World War II since there were so many of them.’ My grandmother could racist twitter.”