The Pencil Twitter

Quite a while ago, my good friend Jason started a Twitter feed about his cat, Sockington. The feed has not only become extremely popular, with over 4,000 followers, it’s also become famous to the point of being featured on a New York Times blog.

To keep up the illusion that the cat was making constant Twitter updates, Jason even wrote a script that uploads entries at random times. Needless to say, this is precisely the kind of time-wasting activity that I thrive on when I’m not—you know—writing. I wanted in.

I mulled it over for a couple of weeks. If I did this, what kind of feed would I have? I certainly didn’t want to update the world every five minutes about my own procrastinating sh-t , nor did I want to write about another f-cking cat.

I love Sweetie (my cat), but honestly, she’s a bitchy little bore. Like a few ex-girlfriends of mine.

I wanted a challenge. A POV character you wouldn’t normally consider. A POV character the reader would be loath to get emotionally invested in.

Like a pencil. Maybe my and John Steinbeck’s preferred pencil.

A Mirado Black Warrior pencil.

And like Sockington, Mirado is slickly making his updates using Jason’s script. I pre-wrote a month’s worth of Tweets so the pencil can post updates 2x a day at random times.

Hope you enjoy. And tell your friends. I want a million followers.