You have to watch the YouTube video – it’s got this whole Taxicab Confessional ‘noir’ thing going on, with Nana in the foreground in shadow pulling at her hair, and poor Pop Pop under the overhead light in the background telling a very disjointed story about someone at the pool and a camera, and then at the end you see the reason for all the angst. It’s awkward GENIUS!
We just sent the book off to the printers, and we couldn’t be more excited. It’s destined to be the year’s #1 best-seller in the crowded history/Twitter/humor category, hands down.
SO, now that the book is done, we bring you:
10 Little-Known But Totally Inspiring True Facts About
Historical Tweets:The Completely Unabridged and Ridiculously Brief History of the World
The book has 144 full-color pages.
For all you spatial thinkers, it measures 8-1/8 inches wide by 5-1/2 inches tall.
The cover art was created by artist Barry Blitt, whose work is often seen on the cover of The New Yorker.
The book features 50 of the best tweets from the Historical Tweets site from 2008 to now.
The book contains over 8o brand new, never-before-seen tweets.
New tweets from the likes of T-Rex, Socrates, Merlin the Magician, The Vikings, Napoleon, and Gorbachev.
The book also features all-new types of Twitter-esque humor like conversation stacks, tag clouds, and hate tweets.
Lady GaGa has taken over radio airwaves, music video channels, magazine covers, and a good portion of the Cheezburger Network’s websites. It was only a matter of time before she burst onto the GraphJam scene to shake things up. And so here she is, in all of her controversial glory, the essence of a pop star’s meteoric (15 minutes of) fame distilled in 3 graphs.
