Twittering magic

So I've finally cracked the Twitter code: I've figured out how to tweet effectively, and in a way I don't find utterly and hopelessly pointless. Periodically throughout the day—five or six times, actually—I'm simply posting an old Big Quiz Thing trivia question. Entertaining, easy, and since it's drifted down the feed within a couple hours, I don't blow my quizzy wad (as it were) and ruin the question for future use. Be part of the excitement here.

However, this morning, something interesting happened. I posted this question:
In 1987, in a move that startled viewers, Price Is Right host Bob Barker stopped doing what?

Fun, fun. But then, I got a message that "Barker's Beauty (PriceIsBlog) is now following your updates on Twitter. " And I checked out this guy's feed: He live-tweets episode of The Price Is Right. Fascinating. He has a blog, too. He must search Twitter every day for any mention of his beloved game show, and there I was.

Who would be interested in this? I mean, I respect the guy's passion—I love The Price Is Right too, as I've often declared at the quiz—but this level of dedication is stunning. God bless the diversity of the human race.

Pull ze strings!

Never let it be said that I don't take advantage of opportunities. This morning, I hyped Monday's BQT on The Volume, Time Out New York's music blog (upon which I toil away the days). Partly it was because the show wasn't listed in the magazine this week, and partly it was because I could. Just try and stop me.

I put it on the music blog (and not the film blog, or the food blog, or the forthcoming magazines-no-longer-exist blog), because this week, of course, it's "More '80s Music Video Mash-Ups." Read all about it here, and play the earlier edition of the game to get sharp for Monday.

Not that I would know…

My new favorite blog: Things You Can't Do Coked Up. I keep forgetting the URL and just Googling "coked up" and "blog."

Scroll down a little bit: Any mention of Jenga is a-okay in my book.