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TresSugar — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:59:00 -0800

Do you want to stay on top of cultural trends, love and sex advice, and just plain pop culture fun? Interested in my real time reaction to breaking news? Then follow me on Twitter! Just sign up or log in to your Twitter account and follow TrèsSugar by clicking here. If you're new to Twitter, it's the best way to find out what TrèsSugar has cookin' at all times. Come and join our conversation!

Are Facebook and Twitter Making People More Narcissistic?

TresSugar — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:00:00 -0800

I love my Twitter and Facebook as much as the next gal, but there might be some truth to this Venn Diagram.

Perhaps our inner self-promoters and oversharers would have found another way to self-promote and overshare, but these social media platforms sure have made it easy for everyone to get up-to-the-minute updates on how we're feeling and what we're doing - whether they like it or not!

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Do Tell: If You Could Talk to Any Dead Celeb, Who Would It Be?

TresSugar — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:30:00 -0700

Paranormal activity has just moved into the 21st century! A psychic in the UK is going to conduct the world's first online séance using Twitter. Ghosts + psychic + séance + Twitter = Twéance.

Psychic Jaynce Wallace wants you to tell her – via tweet - which celebrity you'd want her to reach out to. She will post this dead celebrity Q&A on Twitter.com/tweance Oct. 30 - just in time for Halloween! (Be sure to account for the UK time/ghost time differential.)

Although Twitter really only blew up about a year ago, a spokesman for Angels Fancy Dress in London, the folks who came up with the idea for the Tweance, wondered why it took so long to conduct séances on the site: "We were amazed to see no one had used Twitter for a séance before." Seriously, why so long?

If you could talk to any dead celebrity, who would it be? What would you ask?

Source: Flickr User PotatoBenevolence

Tweeting Your Miscarriage or Abortion: Good For Women?

TresSugar — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:00:00 -0700

When Penelope Trunk, a blogger who shares almost every detail of her life over the Internet, had a miscarriage, she decided to tweet about it. She wrote:

I'm in a board meeting. Having a miscarriage. Thank goodness, because there's a f**ked-up 3-week hoop-jump to have an abortion in Wisconsin.

Writer KJ Dell'Antonia over at Double X thinks Trunk did women a favor with this TMI tweet. She reasons that Trunk should not give her miscarriage, or would-be abortion, different treatment than other events that happen to her. In fact, Dell'Antonia thinks all women should be more open to talking about these issues because pretending that they never happen reserves "a special layer or shame and condemnation for the bodily functions that happen only to women."

So Dell'Antonia says: "go ahead, tweet your abortion" because it's good for womankind. Do you agree?

Word du Jour: Twittow

TresSugar — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:30:17 -0700

Country star Brad Paisley is a Twitter fiend. His wife, Kimberly Williams-Paisley: not so much. Perhaps she's too busy coining clever new words like "twittow," which Paisley unveiled in a recent tweet.

A mashup of Twitter and widow, "twittow" refers to a woman who is virtually abandoned by her constantly twittering mate. So I guess that means a man neglected by a twittering ladyfriend is a twittower?

Are you a twittow? Are you ignored in favor of another tech obsession, or perhaps a more old-school diversion? Comfort yourself! Coin a word for your plight in the comments.

Follow TrèsSugar on Twitter!

TresSugar — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:00:00 -0700

Do you want to stay on top of cultural trends, love and sex advice and just plain pop culture fun? Interested in my real time reaction to breaking news? Then you should follow me on Twitter!

Just sign up or log in to your Twitter account and follow TrèsSugar by clicking here. If you're new to Twitter, it's the best way to find out what TrèsSugar has cookin' at all times. Please come and join our conversation!

William Shatner Reads Palin's Tweets - I Mean, Poems

TresSugar — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0700

It appears that these writers aren't the only ones who think Sarah Palin is a poet. Conan O'Brien proclaims she is a master of free verse because of her creative use of language. Conan recently invited the one and only William Shatner onto his show to recite her farewell speech, then brought Shatner back on Wednesday to recite her Tweets. With a bongo player and bass player as background, you can almost imagine being in a smoke-filled, Beatnik dive in the '50s . . .

MTV News: Top 5 Cultural Milestones for Class '09

TresSugar — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:30:00 -0700

MTV News came up with what it considers the top five cultural milestones for the last graduating class of the decade.
Here's what they came up with:
5. Gay marriage
4. Twitter
3. Twilight
2. Lady Gaga
1. President Obama

Here's how one irate recent graduate responded to the list:

Just omit the middle three and pretend like nothing happened. Just, go five to one. I'm PART of this generation and I am amazed at the choices. But maybe it's because I graduated a whole entire year ahead of them that I realized how stupid my generation is. I mean, I do not even think we would notice if the list went from five to one. We'd just clap our hands and move on to the next shiny, unimportant thing, all the while ignorant to anything beside auto-tuning and Robert Pattinson.

Whether you've just graduated or are old enough to be the parent of an '09 graduate, what do you think about MTV's list and/or this commenter's assessment of the so-called Millennials or Generation Y?

Tweet Nothings: Comedian Michael Ian Black Issues a Warning

TresSugar — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:00:00 -0700

Stay tuned for more Tweet Nothings, where we highlight the wit, wisdom, and ridiculousness of Twitter. Speaking of wit and wisdom (ahem!), if you'd like to follow TrèsSugar on Twitter, click here!

Real Life Twitter

TresSugar — Sun, 17 May 2009 01:00:00 -0700

What if you expressed all the inane thoughts you have in your head out loud instead of in 140-character messages on Twitter? The following is what you'd get.