Swine flu: The new Captain Trips?
April 29, 2009
Geek alert!
A friend emailed me to let me know “Mother Abigail” is now Tweeting.
That sentence may not make a whole lot of sense to you unless you’re read Stephen King’s “The Stand,” in which the survivors of a mysterious super flu nicknamed “Captain Trips” are drawn into a fight against good and evil. The good have dreams about a woman named Mother Abigail, who is 108 and lives in a Nebraska cornfield. The bad turn to Randall Flag, who draws them to (where else) Las Vegas.
Anyway, Mother Abigail is now Tweeting. I signed up to follow her and an hour later received a message:
Randall Flagg is now following you on Twitter!
Truly we live in interesting times. Whoever’s doing it has the speech patterns down pat!
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That’s the funniest thing I’ve read all day! But Captain Trips had a MUCH higher mortality rate – 99.7% maybe? (That was geeky)
And, since it is your blogoversary tomorrow, what is the traditional gift for a one year blogoversary? I guess paper would be out. Maybe a shiny new typeface?
This is absolutely surreal. I’m watching the President of the United States, telling me to wash my hands and to cover my mouth when I cough or sneeze. . . .
You may be right on with the reference to Captain Trips!!
Happy Blogoversary – let’s all keep washing our hands and we’ll be reading your blog a year from now!