I’m happy to report to you that I have finished cleaning up my client’s following list from over 3,100 down to just a little under 400. There is still some fat to trim and some tweeps to start following, but overall, we are off to a great start.

Since I’ve gone through thousands of accounts, I came across many profiles and tweeting styles that baffled me. Some of them, in hindsight, I should’ve just taken a screenshot of as a lesson for all. More than anything, I have learned so many things about what one should NOT do in a twitter profile.

Twitter handle, avatar, and profile can tell you a lot about the person/account.  Much like how you’d make sure you look professional before you head out to meet a client, your business twitter profile should be as professional as you are.  You don’t need much for your profile to grab attention and not be considered junk.

1. Pick an easy to type and remember, and short and sweet handle

Remember that your name takes up character space when people mention you in their tweet. Signing up for @MyBusinessReallyRocksYall, while descriptive, might not be the best idea. At the same token, condensing into something of a license plate cypher makes it difficult for people to remember and to understand.  Say, who would remember @MyBizRllyRoxYll.  Also, make sure to spell things correctly.  I came across a twitter account for a local news tweets that spelled the town’s name wrong in the handle.  @LosAngelees_news_alerts.  Now, that’s the news you CAN’T trust.

2. Change your profile image right away

Not in a few hours. Not tomorrow. CHANGE IT NOW!  Even some dedicated spammers change their profile images right away–mostly with someone else’s image stolen off the internet. But if they even take time to fake an identify, why would you want to go around tweeting like a lazy spammer?

3. Write your 160-character profile in full and check your spelling

The 160-character profile is the ultimate elevator pitch.  Sure, you can be funny, ironic, and/or cryptic about yourself on your profile as long as casual lurkers can get a gist of who you are.  If the lurkers can’t glean much from the profile, it’s likely that they’re not going to stick around.  There were numerous accounts I deleted because their profiles told me nothing and their tweets weren’t clarifying that for me either.

Be clear and concise as to who you are. Check your spelling. And resist the urge to excessively use ALL CAPS, #hashtags, special characters and other ASCII art (seriously, that’s ANNOYING!), and Text/Chat language.

Sidebar: Condensing the tweet into text/chat language is my pet peeve.  I’m an advocate of spelling everything out in my 140 character tweets as well as in my profile.  If you can’t spell everything out in the space allotted, then your message has just missed the point of twitter.

And one of a very good profile example I could think of is this. Forgive me.

Short and sweet twitter handle. Non-Egg avatar. Concise, yet funny, profile description.  Dare I say it, winning!

Since I was going through so many twitter accounts. Some of them emerged as spectacularly bad profile.  Eventually, I started tweeting them at #YourAssIsGettingDeleted. (I know it should be “unfollowed”. But “deleted” is just more satisfying…)

Some of these accounts fail to follow basic the criteria I mentioned earlier. Of course, which account you think is appropriate or not to follow, that’s totally up to you. But I mean, some of these SCREAMED to be deleted.

Your ass is getting deleted if…

• YOUR PROFILE INFORMATION IS IN ALL CAPS JUST IN CASE NOBODY PAYS ATTENTION.
• Or #everything #is #in #hashtags #just #in #case #you #want #to #know #what #useless #topics #they’re #interested #in
• Or has excessive amounts of [heart symbols]
• Your avatar is the Twitter Egg. No, I don’t even care if that the account is spammy or not. No avatar, no follow.
• Even worse, your avatar is STILL the Twitter Egg despite the fact that you have been using the account to tweet regularly for a few years.
• But worst of all, the above account is for an “established marketing company”.
• While billing yourself as a marketing “professional”, your avatar is of yourself, shirtless, looking very Jersey Shore “guido”.
• Your twitter handle is a jumble of letters and numbers. (Usually accompanied by the Twitter Egg avatar.)
• Or in 1337 speak (that’s “leet speak”, the geeky way of spelling by substituting numbers for letters). I mean, SERIOUSLY? Who still DOES that?!
• When every other, if not all, of your tweets, you use the word “c*nt”. Profanity in tweets is one thing. I swear on twitter on and off myself. But that was too much.
• Your profile says “Follow me and I’ll follow you back”.
• Or “I like to enter sweepstakes”.
• Or “I like the share links to discounts”.
• Or “I’m one of the coolest people you’ll ever meet”.
• Or “I’m a kind of a hipster”…which no real hipster would admit to that.

But I digress.

Have you come across any twitter profiles that qualify for the  #YourAssIsGettingDeleted list? Share here or head onto twitter.

I found it odd that there was so much junk and spam on their feed. And then I realized that this account was following over 3,100 people.

And yes, the account was indeed following spammers, bots, fake accounts, and random people it should not be following.

It seems that at one point in time, this account had an auto-follow set up where an application would automatically follow whoever follows your account, indiscriminately.  On top of that, at some point, someone decided to just follow anyone who mentioned the brand, or perhaps tweeted about being at the same convention where the brand was exhibiting.

Some people–and businesses–don’t think that WHO they follow matters.  Some are under the impression that the more people you follow, the more people would follow you back.  We all thought that at the beginning. It is a classic newbie mistake. I’ve done it myself when I first started.  But then you quickly realized that by following everybody, you have cluttered up your twitter stream so much so that you can’t seem to keep up with all the information you wanted or the conversation you wanted to get in on.

As a company and a brand, who you follow matters. Actually, it also matters for personal users too.  For examples, CNN has over 3 million followers but it is only following only 565 accounts.  Even the King of Twitter himself, Ashton Kutcher, with over 9 million followers, only follows 687 accounts.

If you follow Tom, Dick, and Harriott coming through the door, that leaves you with a Time Square ticker tape of an incoming feed which makes it difficult to really get any information, let alone  interact with your community.

People you are following should be those you actually want to get information from and those you would recommend to others, like your business partners, your favorite news sources, or even your competitors.

As for my client’s account, not only following 3,000+ people unwieldy, it was full of junk.  So, I took it upon myself to scan through everything and start unfollowing…or deleting, really…people off the list.

There is no rules anywhere that you have to follow someone forever.  We’re no emperor penguins here, folks. We don’t “mate for life” with the people we follow.  You can unfollow people you’ve been following.

Some of the criteria I use is more specific to the account, but for the most part, the most important rule of them all is this to follow people you know or want to get to know.

D’uh, I know. But some folks keep forgetting that.

You want to follow people you are interested in getting information from.  You want to follow people with whom you interact on a regular basis, or have had interacted with once or twice but proven to be someone you are interested in.

Once every a couple of months, go through your account and see who you are following. Do you remember why you’re following these people in the place? Do you even remember following these people? Have those people interacted with you recently…or ever?  But more importantly, do you still want to follow them?

If the answer is no to any of those, it’s time to clean house and unfollow some people.  Or as I’ve been saying for the past few weeks: delete their ass.

Don’t feel guilty about unfollowing folks. You’re getting rid of the clutter so you can get back to making real interactions and sharing meaningful information.

And you and your account will look good doing it too.

Now, by the time I had gone through about 1,000 accounts, I’ve grown frustrated–at at times amused–by people’s profiles and the interaction from seemingly professional accounts. As a way to get myself through the day, I started to share some of those gems as  #YourAssIsGettingDeleted.

We’ll cover those and the tips of what NOT to put on your Twitter profile inthe next installment.

Got this from Despair.com

Olaina posted this article about craziest interview questions people were asked in 2011. I have never been asked anything crazy before, lucky me I guess.

I was asked once about what social media campaign I think was successful. And my answer was nothing I can think of. Why not? Because so far nothing grab my attention as brilliant just yet. So there, I might’ve just shot myself in the foot but seriously. If it’s good enough, it would have had ME, a social media nerd, all participating in it by now.

But anyways. I thought I’d take a crack at these 25 “crazy” questions to see how badly I’d do. And yes, I answered with the first thing that came to mind.

How many people are using Facebook in San Francisco at 2:30pm on a Friday? (asked at Google)

I don’t know. 42?

Just entertain me for five minutes, I’m not going to talk. (Acosta)

Do you have a piano or a guitar? Or perhaps some paper (I can make origami with)?

If Germans were the tallest people in the world, how would you prove it? (Hewlett-Packard)

Have you asked the Chinese about that?

What do you think of garden gnomes? (Trader Joe’s … why am I not surprised)

I have a USC one named Theodore. He’s not in the garden, though. He sits inside our apartment by the front door.  I also have one that holds salt and pepper shaker on my dining table, but he doesn’t have a name. Hm. How did I miss naming him?

Is your college GPA reflective of your potential? (The Advisory Board)

My parents seem to think so.

Would Mahatma Gandhi have made a good software engineer? (Deloitte)

Seriously?

If you could be #1 employee but have all your coworkers dislike you or you could be #15 employee and have all your coworkers like you, which would you choose? (ADP)

#15. Happily.

How would you cure world hunger? (Amazon.com)

Have you seen “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”? Yep. That.

Room, desk and car – which do you clean first? (Pinkberry)

Car. I mean, I have to see my room and you’ll see why.

Does life fascinate you? (Ernst & Young)

Everyday.

Given 20 ‘destructible’ light bulbs (which breaks at certain height), and a building with 100 floors, how do you determine the height that the light bulb breaks? (QUALCOMM)

Have you tried finding better bulbs?

Please spell ‘diverticulitis’. (MSI Engineering)

Can you repeat that? (Are you kidding me?)

Name 5 uses of a stapler without staple pins. (EvaluServe)

By staple pins, do you mean staples? Oh, okay then. A projectile weapon. A blunt weapon. A paper weight. A gag gift. A door stop.

How much money did residents of Dallas/Ft. Worth spend on gasoline in 2008? (American Airlines)

More than they should have.

How would you get an elephant into a refrigerator? (Horizon Group Properties)

You’re gonna need a bigger fridge.

You have a bouquet of flowers. All but two are roses, all but two are daisies, and all but two are tulips. How many flowers do you have? (Epic Systems)

3.

How many planes are currently flying over Kansas? (Best Buy)

42.

How many different ways can you get water from a lake at the foot of a mountain, up to the top of the mountain? (Disney Parks & Resorts)

As many as you can think up.

What is 37 times 37? (Jane Street Capital)

Er… / Can I have a piece of paper?

If you could be a superhero, what power would you possess? (Rain and Hail Insurance)

Super agility or super fast reflex.

If you were a Microsoft Office program, which one would you be? (Summit Racing Equipment)

Movie Maker. So easy to use for simple projects but nobody knows it’s there.

Pepsi or Coke? (United Health Group)

Neither, really. I don’t drink that much soda. But if I do, I’ll take a Dr. Pepper or Cherry Coke.

Are you exhaling warm air? (Walker Marketing)

Yes. (What the…?)

You’re in a row boat, which is in a large tank filled with water. You have an anchor on board, which you throw overboard (the chain is long enough so the anchor rests completely on the bottom of the tank). Does the water level in the tank rise or fall? (Tesla Motors)

It doesn’t change a thing. What does the anchor have to do with the water in the tank. And why are you in a row boat with a tank of water to begin with? Get a bigger boat.

How do you feel about those jokers at Congress? (Consolidated Electrical)

Has anyone called Batman?

…and those were 25 reasons why you should hire me. Right now.

P.S. And those who are wondering about why I keep answering with 42…

(The bit from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

2011 has been a serious roller coaster for me professionally and personally. It seems like it was just yesterday when I was updating the 2010 end of the year list!

Golly.

2011 in Pictures

Jan – March: Welcome to the family, Robin Hood the Hyundai Sonata! / Custom made truffles from Drago Centro / Got laid off

April – June: New Zealand vacation / Cochon 555 / The Nerd Machine Slave Leia PSA

July – September: 4th of July at the Los Alamitos Base / Camping on Catalina / USC football season

October – December: Awesome Halloween / Thorough destruction of the bRuins / Annual candy cane martini at Patty’s house

Drinking Buddy of the Year: Brandon…again

When you’re unemployed for most of the year, who else would be your drinking buddy but your husband!  Brandon has returned to claim the title since he got it in 2009.  This year, the mister also started to try wine, so we’ve had a little more fun with that.  Speaking of wine…

Bar of the Year: District Wine, Long Beach

I was introduced to District Wine by USC Alumni Club of Long Beach.  The club has many mixers hosted here and the board congregates here for the board meeting for bottlomless mimosas on a Sunday.  Elegant but cozy place with friendliest of staff can be really mellow some nights and lively on others.

With a variety of wine by the glass and very reasonably priced by the bottle and delicious nosh, if this place was around the corner from my house, I would certainly haunt it.  I like District Wine so much when I was contacted by Ghirardelli to host the Intense Dark chocolate and wine pairing event, I didn’t even try calling anywhere else but here.

I’m looking forward to many, many more good times!

Restaurant of the Year: Vino e Cucina, Long Beach

My friend Brenda introduced me to Vino e Cucina a few years back. It was REAL Italian food, owned and operated by Italian family.  I totally loved the food there since the very first bite, but I couldn’t get Brandon through the door for the longest time.  You see, the first time we popped in was a Friday night when they were still in the one store. With no reservation, they couldn’t seat anyone. B didn’t like that too much.

Since then they had expanded into the neighboring storefronts, and I finally convinced Brandon to come order a to-go dinner on a weeknight. The food proved itself worthy.  And now we eat there about once every other month.

Newcomer Award: Saatchi LA Peeps

“But Oakley, you only worked there for 4 months! How could you be so attached to these people?”

When you find a work environment you like, meet the people you adore, and get a sense of a company culture that fits you like a glove, you can’t help yourself feeling like you’ve always worked there. I feel like I belong there more than any other place I’ve worked at before (maybe except HSX.com).  I’ve met great people and created some awesome memories in my short time here.  This will not be soon forgotten.

Oh, and again, thanks, Matt.

High point of the Year: New Zealand Trip

Fresh off the layoff, the trip was the perfect springboard into the new adventure.  It was a carefree trip. We ate a lot. We walked a lot. Then we drove a LOT but we also saw a lot along the way.  We nerded out with Lord of the Rings sites. We drank plenty of wine and guzzled enough local beer. We took a million pictures (and I haven’t uploaded them all yet).

It was great seeing my dad and getting him out traveling even on a very limited schedule. My mom had always wanted to visit New Zealand. In a way, we were taking this trip for her as well.

The best, though, is that my dad and I reunited with my cousins Nancy and Nat who we haven’t seen in 10+ years.  I also finally get to meet my nephew Brandon for the first time.

What an adventure.

Low point of the year: Unemployment

Yes, I was all gung-ho about my new adventures. Then I was defeated by the reality of it.  I had some days when all the rejection emails and resumes that disappear into the black hole that is the Orange County job market really got me.  There were days when I felt useless and stupid. And there were days when I thought I should just grab a cup and go panhandle.

I’ve gotten used to a set schedule and a steady paycheck for these past 4 months. Going back to not working is going to be interesting all over again.

Holiday of the Year: Halloween…again

That’s it. I’m retiring this category since a) Halloween is my favorite holiday, and b) it’s ALWAYS awesome.

This year I didn’t have quite the same number of costume change as last year.  But I still had quite a bit.  A 1980s prom princess at work pre-Halloween. A Trojan Cat in the Hat for Halloween weekend tailgate.  Myself aka the Devil for work on Halloween day and then the TARDIS in a tutu for Halloween party that evening.

That TARDIS outfit though, I’m quite proud of. Now you just have to find more occasions to rock out my blue tutu. Hee.

Song of the Year: Pumped Up Kicks, Foster the People

I know, I know. This song is now overplayed.  However, you have to give it credit of the catchiness.  I mean, I caught it a bit before it blew up and I still caught myself humming it out of the blue.

Movie of the Year: Captain America

As a Harry Potter fan, the final Potter movie should be on this list. However, it just wasn’t. Since I haven’t seen The Muppets just yet, Captain America will be crowned as my favorite this year.

Super hero movies has gone gray. You know, all the heroes have some kind of flaws or darkness they have to deal with.  It’s so refreshing to see a TRUE super her with no baggage.

Surprise Movie of the Year: The Warrior’s Way

Brandon got this on rental. Horrendously cheesy with the story, the comic book CGI, and gratuitous violence. Everyone is over the top and stereotypical. The plot is predictable as hell too. But you know almost immediately that you can’t take any of it seriously. Even the actors don’t seem to be taking it seriously. Once you look at this as a live action comic book rooted in no reality of any kind, some kind of a fantastic voyage where everyone is in on the joke, you’ll totally enjoy it.

Book of the Year: Hunger Game trilogy

Oh, Entertainment Weekly Magazine. You influence me so. After having read so much about it, I decided to pick up the Hunger Game paperback for my New Zealand trip. I just couldn’t put it down. I ordered the box set the moment I came back and plowed through the rest in a record speed.

I mean, what’s not to like? Post apocalyptic, totalitarian world. A teenage girl fights for her family. Two boys who love her yet she doesn’t really know what she’s feeling.

If you can skip through the narratives about the food, the fashion, and how she was confused about her relationships–pretty much the parts Brandon couldn’t stand and therefore didn’t read past the first book–you have yourself one kick-ass sci-fi trilogy.

And next summer, the movie. Squee!

TV Show of the Year: American Horror Story

I actually didn’t want to continue watching after I watched the pilot. My skin was left crawling. Too intense of an hour of television.  But curiosity–and free on demand–brought me back.

And boy am I back and so totally obsessed with this show now. (Glee? What’s that?)

That’s about it for 2011.

Us Thais, we traditionally celebrate every 12 years.  It’s a complete cycle in the Chinese zodiac.

These years are supposed to be your milestones in life. At 12, you’re not little kid any more–you’re becoming a teenager.  At 24, you’re now becoming a responsible adult. At 36, you’ve got stuff to show for now that you’ve been an adult awhile. At 48 and onward, you’re just celebrating having been around the blocks so long.

As of today, I’m a year shy from my 3rd cycle. And all I have to show for is a closet full of t-shirts, a messy home office, and a growing–but awesome–sci-fi-related costume collection.

I am the TARDIS!

I wrote on Facebook a few days ago that I’m not where I thought I would be at this point in my life.

I mean having a full-time job, living in our own place, raising a couple of cats, and reminiscing about the epic trip to Italy.

Instead, I’m working on a freelance contract at the dream company, living in a cozy apartment in a great neighborhood, occasionally hanging out with a neighbor’s cat, and reminiscing about the New Zealand trip we took after I lost my job in April.

It’s not all according to plan, but it ain’t a bad detour.

But that is life’s best gift right there. The surprises. The new experiences. The friends you meet along the way.  And wisdom that comes with age does come in handy sometimes.

The gray hair, though, is getting ridiculous…

I might have just done one of the geekiest things so far.

A few Saturdays ago, I joined a tweet up tequila brunch via Google+ Hangout.

Flash back about a year or so ago when Annette/@dananner, being the instigator of all things social media, introduced me to a very small group of tweeps who get up with the birds to go to work. Our little group  greet each other daily at the crack of dawn.  And once in a while we’d joke about having tequila for breakfast.

So I said, how about we all meet up for a tequila brunch? We thought it was a brilliant idea, and I managed to find a restaurant who actually has tequila brunch and is located centrally as we would be hauling in from all different directions and distances.

We finally picked a date that most people were free and Malo in Silver Lake as a central location. And the plan was set. But then, the day of the brunch was during the time when SoCal decided to be Seattle for the week. I drove through the storm up to town from Orange County. An hour later, Annette and Hank came in from Lancaster.

That was it for the grand plan of the Great Tequila Brunch Tweet Up.

It’s been about a year since then. And the weather looked like it was going to hold the summer pattern all the way through Halloween at this rate.  I decided to try putting the brunch together again. This time in Downtown LA at Mas Malo, the second location of the same restaurant.

Alas, I missed my own party.

The crab I ate the night before decided to fight back. I couldn’t leave the house.

But being a nerdy little group that we are, we already had plan to have other non-LA-based folks join us over Google+ Hangout.

Annette came to the party armed with her laptop as she withstood some weird looks from the waitstaff when she asked for a table with an outlet because “my friends are joining our brunch online.”

I dragged myself to the home office and popped in to say hi to my online friends (@hankito, @phatemokid, @scbound and @LoveMeDeux ‘s daughter @TheMads), and watch everyone eat for a few minutes before I retreated back to the couch.

Yes, I got to see all of them. Yes I got to see what they were eating. And yes, it was an absolutely nerdy good time.

Sure, I’ve done video chat before, but I haven’t done much of it until Hangout came around, making things easy for everyone.  However, I never did a video chat as a social event.

This little geeky experiment is now giving me an idea to “have a meal” with my friends somewhere else around the world.  You know, we schedule a time (according to the internet, 9 a.m. PST seems to be the golden hour of social media) and bring our meal to our computers.  Heck, we can even cook the same thing and share our experience!

But of course, said friends will have to get themselves a Google+ account.

Would you be interested in doing a virtual Sunday brunch with me sometime?

This year, I am determined to go as the TARDIS incarnated as a cute blue dress [ETA] a blue velvet corset and a tutu with a hat that glows.  Here are my digital “drafts”, a quick and crude Photoshop image of what my outfit could/would look like.

Final draft. In the works!

Original idea.

But out from that came the idea to do a group costume with our friends James and Aurora, and her sister Lee.

I mean, we’ve done a group costume before years ago as the Firefly gang. (That’s Lee as Kaylee.) Nobody knew who we were. And we had no party to go to. But we did it anyway because, well, it’s Halloween!

As for this year, James has dibs on being an Ood.  We’re considering having me making a t-shirt for James’ 1-year-old daughter that says “My name is Melody Pond”. Either Aurora or Lee will be Madame Kovarian. And we’re hoping we can put their 3-year-old son into a little suit and bow tie. If not, we can always make him a little Cyberman.

As for Brandon, after much deliberation and cost analysis, he was talked into be Rory’s fellow Centurion. (He can’t be Rory because that means shaving!)

Upon researching, I found that the cost for Brandon’s outfit will come up to be quite a lot.  While mine will probably be too, but I’d wear that again for other random occasions.  So I asked if he’d ever wear his Centurion outfit again after Halloween.

B: It’s not like I can wear this again any other time. I mean, it’s not the right time period to wear to Renaissance Faire either.

O: You’re right. [...light bulb moment!...] But wait. You CAN be the Centurion at Ren Faire!

B: How?

O: Dude. I’m the fucking TARDIS! You got to the Renaissance because you’re with ME!!!!

B: Oh god. We’re going to one of THOSE people.

You know, folks showing up at Ren Faire in other sci-fi cosplays…because they’re time traveling. While we get a laugh out of that, the whole genre mashing does ticks off some serious Ren Faire folks something fierce.

Did we mention that last year, there was a girl who dressed up as the 4th Doctor?

Brandon pointed her out as she jogged past.  Of course, being the Doctor, she’d be running…

I called out after her, “But Doctor! I thought you regenerated…like 3-4 times now!?”

She turned around, laughing, and gave me some Jelly Babies. It was quite awesome.

Anyhoo. If we were to go through with the TARDIS at the Faire experience, it would only be more worthwhile if our friend BGF Central would follow us around, throwing her combat bible at us.

Ooooh. Funnage!

What are you guys thinking about for Halloween this year? Have you even thought about it yet? ;-D

This one from my fellow geek girl Amy G. inspired this post.

However, this one’s my favorite.

What’s your plan this weekend, peeps?

You read that right. She invented the fabric.

She was as scientist first. Fashion became a passion. So, she is actually a fashion designer AND a biologist.

Nerd girls can have it all?

Oh, yes.  Yes, we can.

Now this lady just needs this shirt…

ThinkGeek.com

But as I’m sitting here watching this promo of the movie, as a fan of Joss Whedon’s Firefly series, I’m insulted and outraged by all of these people cooing about how a mash up of sci-fi and Western has NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE.

Bitch, please.

I understand you need to sell your movie but why do you have to go and insult the intelligence of your core audience: the fanboys and fangirls?

Just because Firefly didn’t go “mainstream”, it doesn’t mean y’all can come through and claim that you’re the first who’s mashed up the genre.

I’m not saying that Firefly is first to mash up. Wikipedia documents quite a bit of history of “Space Western”. I’m just pointing out that Firefly definitely mash it up before Cowboys & Aliens.

I admire your work, Favreau, but you ain’t first.

So, be excited, fellow geeks and nerds, that Cowboys & Aliens are coming to theaters. And go out to see it as I definitely will.

But be prepared to defend the honor of Firefly universe (or even Cowboy Bebop if that’s your thing).

This is a my call to arms to all Browncoats (and even Alliance) to unite and defend our place in the geekdom.

We were first. Don’t let them tell you otherwise.

Okay, fine. If you Cowboys & Aliens camp wants to say that you mean you’re first to put aliens in the Western and THAT hasn’t been done before, maybe you could claim that. I would fact check on that though.

But please, I beg of you, to stop it with being the first mash up of western and sci-fi, okay? Not only you are embarrassing yourselves among your fanboys and fangirls, you’re beginning to damage our calm.

Speaking of having my calm damaged, someone said this to me about Cowboys & Aliens.

“This is such a ridiculous concept for a movie,” she said.

“EVERYBODY knows there were no aliens back in those days. There wasn’t even electricity!”

I’m serious.

P.S. According to sources, that Chinese phrase in the image is “Chur ni-duh”, uttered by Wash in “Out of Gas”, which is slang for screw you, get lost, or go to hell.