Jordan Birnbaum

Coping With The Weirding (Through Pop Culture)

Sep 27, 2013

MD
Stage· 243 messages
Sep 27, 2013

There are 2 types of people in the world: those who think they are weird, and those who are delusional. And nothing is a better coping mechanism for weirdness than pop culture. Music, movies, books, games - these are the refuge of the weird. So come get weird with Mano and me as we discuss our favorites.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:00 AM

Mr. Dogs, I presume?
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:00 AM

Tis I.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:00 AM

Awesome -so glad you made it!
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:00 AM

How is everybody doing tonight?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:00 AM

★ Spotlighted from Rick Rosner

“I'm not sure what this Tawk is about. But anything with 'weird' draws me in.”

MD

Mano Dogs · 1:00 AM

Thanks and thank you for inviting me!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:01 AM

rick I admit to a semi-nebulous description, but I think the weirdness of this Tawk will reveal itself momentarily
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:01 AM

So -Mano
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:01 AM

might we begin with a story of hoiw this Tawk came to be?
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:01 AM

Sure, hit it!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:02 AM

So I started to see Mano popping up in the audience of a bunch of Tawks, and he always made me laugh
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:02 AM

:)
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:02 AM

so I checked out his profile and saw a link to theweirding.net
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:02 AM

and it was pretty cool
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:03 AM

Thank you.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:03 AM

I read an article he wrote about a 90s band I loved (STP) and I figured this guy was ready to do a Tawk!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:03 AM

★ Spotlighted from Rick Rosner

“Not good, Mano. I was hit by a meteor. what are the odds?”

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:03 AM

now that's a little weird, rick.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:03 AM

What size meteor?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:04 AM

yeah, like a buick, or the size of Texas?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:04 AM

so anyway, Mano are you the creator of the weirding?
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:04 AM

Indeed, kind sir. I wrote most all of the content as well as did the layout in HTML and all that.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:05 AM

I am the webmaster and designer, as well as the writer, but most of the illustrations were actually culled from public domain sites then modified using a graphics program called GIMP.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:06 AM

So you cover a lot of content, which I suppose means you have a pretty broad range of interests
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:06 AM

★ Spotlighted from Kelly Carlin

“I heard the word weird in my head, and here I am...”

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:06 AM

like moths to a flame...
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:06 AM

I do but most of the stuff there is tabletop RPG, comic books, things like that.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:06 AM

Hi Kelly Carlin! How are you?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:07 AM

OK -so tabletop rpg means "role playing game" right?
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:07 AM

Yessir. The most famous/popular of which is Dungeons & Dragons, or D&D.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:07 AM

★ Spotlighted from Rick Rosner

“Lucy and Ricky are here!”

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:07 AM

yeah, it's like the isle of misfit toys in here! I'm finally home!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:08 AM

★ Spotlighted from Kelly Carlin

“Hey Mano! Good. Busy, but I said, fuck it...I'm hanging out with you weirdos.”

MD

Mano Dogs · 1:08 AM

I cover it on the site but took down the link because it needed more work. However the other games are also tabletop RPG they just never got that popular.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:08 AM

I'm glad you did! Thank you so much too!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:08 AM

★ Spotlighted from Lucy Dyer

“you leave my misfit toy out of this,JB!”

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:08 AM

tsk tsk
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:09 AM

OK, but it's alot more than just rpg. Here, I lifted this from your site:
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:09 AM

Dedicated to out-of-print tabletop roleplaying games , comic books and sequential art, Cyberculture , and other forms of Nerdery,
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:09 AM

Weirdos we are, Kelly & Lucy.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:10 AM

Now, there's a ton of music stuff oin the site, as well as the cyberculture stuff...you're pretty broad
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:10 AM

Yes, it has a lot of stuff on there that covers a panoply of subjects, all of them pretty weird.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:10 AM

Panoply is a word, isn't it?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:10 AM

plus my favorite - paranormal - but we'll get to that later
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:10 AM

★ Spotlighted from Kelly Carlin

“I just had a weird image of a dildo getting left in the misfit toy box...”

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:10 AM

Mano -when you woke up this morning, did you expect to be reading that from Kelly Carlin?
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:10 AM

You're a pretty broad too, Jordan.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:11 AM

You see through that whole beard and tie thing I got going on in my picture?
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:11 AM

I cannot say that I did, JB, no.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:11 AM

OK -so is nerdery a term you invented, or is that from somewhere else? because I can't believe I never heard it before.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:12 AM

★ Spotlighted from Rick Rosner

“I'm a very personal sort of a guy. At least, in this Tawk room.”

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:12 AM

don't worry about it, Rick. It's not like this is going on the Internet. Oh wait...
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:12 AM

I actually don't know. I started using it several years ago but I've heard it elsewhere. I'm not sure if that was before or after I "coined" it (assuming I did).
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:12 AM

so what would YOUR definition of nerdery be?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:13 AM

★ Spotlighted from Rick Rosner

“A nerdery is an aviary without birds.”

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:13 AM

★ Spotlighted from Kelly Carlin

“I feel like I need to go to Mano's site, do some snooping around in another window...”

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:13 AM

if we don't hear from Kelly for a while we know where she is...
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:13 AM

Well, as you said, there are a lot of weird things on there but I never really considered them "weird" so much as nerdish.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:13 AM

The Weirding is actually from Frank Herbert's Dune.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:14 AM

OK - so before we go through some of my favorite parts of your site...
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:14 AM

cool
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:14 AM

Also without Angry Birds, Rick.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:14 AM

you seem a bit of a contradiction, because I have discovered that musically, you're kind of an intimidating metalhead who beats up nerds.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:15 AM

Me!? No way. I weigh like a $1.05 soaking wet.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:15 AM

hopw do you square these two parts of your personaliity?
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:15 AM

I am a metalhead though.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:15 AM

now there is a very definite culture around being a metalhead, and a very definite culture around D&D. Was there ever any conflict for ou in melding the two?
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:16 AM

They're really not that different. A lot of people who are into comic books and D&D and those types of things are into Metal - or were when we were kids.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:16 AM

say anything you wish, Kelly Carlin!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:16 AM

★ Spotlighted from Kelly Carlin

“I know picking hairs are off the table, but can I at least pluck a few chin hairs?”

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:17 AM

yeah, she's pretty cool.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:17 AM

so what do you think those two worlds have in common? They both seem quite intense, for starters...
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:17 AM

Isn't she? Kelly's on Twitter more than FB and I tend to stay away from that.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:18 AM

do you think of yourself as extreme?
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:18 AM

Well, metal is actually a very technical genre but I think it mostly has to do with the fct that most of us who are into these sorts of things were misfit children.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:19 AM

I *like* Twitter mind you, some of the people are just not my kind of folks.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:19 AM

we'll get to twitter in a sec. do you think of them as identifiers? were they a means of establishing your voice, your identity?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:20 AM

or was it like an escape? or both?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:21 AM

Because I think of the pursuits of my childhood like that.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:22 AM

Umm... well I think mostly as you said they were merely an escape but you definitely identified with them.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:22 AM

did I go a little Oprah on you?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:23 AM

Dr. Phil in da house!!
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:23 AM

Where I'm from, things like D&D and metal music were frowned upon, so a lot of us turned to those things for escape.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:24 AM

But after a while, they became a very important part of your identity.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:24 AM

That's why so many of us took Metallica's Black album completely the wrong way.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:24 AM

How was it was taken?
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:24 AM

Poorly.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:24 AM

and how should it have been taken?
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:25 AM

They sold right out as we like to say.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:25 AM

Poorly.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:25 AM

They sold right out as we ike to say.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:25 AM

got it. so I kind of think that "weird" is universal to the human condition, and that normal is an illusion that makes us all miserable. agreee or disagree?
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:25 AM

I absolutely agree.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:26 AM

Hang on I'm checking something.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:26 AM

And part of what makes me find you intriguing is that you absolutely celebrate that about yourself.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:26 AM

what are you checking?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:27 AM

your roast?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:27 AM

the temperature?
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:27 AM

Just to see where you got music on the site from. I didn't know I'd linked to any music.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:27 AM

the baby?
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:27 AM

THAT IS NOT MY BABY!
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:27 AM

No I have no babies, roast, nor anything else here.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:27 AM

I read about Jane's and STP on my first visit. In Entertainment.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:27 AM

Oh yeahyeahyeah, OK. Sorry.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:28 AM

Yeah between the blogs and the site, I cover a lot of ground.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:28 AM

do you want me to tell you what color your living room carpet is too?
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:28 AM

Please.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:28 AM

it's a hodgepodge, really.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:28 AM

I guess we mods can only see what is spotlighted, huh? I thought that's how this worked.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:29 AM

yep - keeps the douchebags at bay
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:29 AM

I don't know what hodgepodge is but I'll take your word for it.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:29 AM

lol
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:29 AM

My carpet keeps everyone at bay...
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:29 AM

congratulations on increasing your vocabulary by 1 tonight!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:29 AM

★ Spotlighted from Kelly Carlin

“Love Twitter! Gotta follow and hang with the right people though. And Seth, yes.”

MD

Mano Dogs · 1:30 AM

I really enjoyed Twitter at first but the people tend to be more cynical and just flat-out mener than on FB. FB's problem is all the privacy settings and never really knowing to whom you are speaking.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:30 AM

Yes I need to know more "words."
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:30 AM

and I totally agree with Kelly on this one. Describing "the people on twitter" as anythig is kind of silly.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:30 AM

it's got all types. like New York.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:30 AM

I can't see her other comment, I just mean it has a different vibe than FB.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:31 AM

★ Spotlighted from Kelly Carlin

“Mano - I have had the EXACT opposite experience on Twitter. How WEIRD.”

MD

Mano Dogs · 1:31 AM

Yes, there are some great people there. And a lot of the people who use Twitter do not use FB.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:31 AM

Yeah, you like it better. I've followed you on FB and Twitter and you're definitely more ctive there.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:31 AM

★ Spotlighted from Lucy Dyer

“oh i wish i could give a thumbs up to my comments lol”

MD

Mano Dogs · 1:31 AM

A lot of celebs prefer Twitter actually. It reaches more people and the people it reches really are a specific kind of audience.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:32 AM

that's funny Lucy!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:32 AM

★ Spotlighted from Seth Hochman

“I got ya Lucy”

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:32 AM

seth has your back!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:32 AM

★ Spotlighted from Kelly Carlin

“Lucy, I looked for the Favorite button on an email today. God, help me.”

MD

Mano Dogs · 1:32 AM

Yes, I can only see the highlighted comments. I thought that's how this worked but it seems like the hosts cn see mine when I'm in group for whatever reason.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:33 AM

social media. messaging apps. IT'S ALL CRASHING IN ON ITSELF!!!! LOOK OUT BELOW!!!!!!!!!
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:33 AM

lol. Yes I really dug Twitter for a while. You can definitely say raunchier things there.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:33 AM

Yes I don't think it'll be long before FB and Twitter are one in the sak,e.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:33 AM

same*
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:34 AM

Twitter does have more trolls. That was the main reason I stopped hanging out there.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:34 AM

So lets talk about some of my favorite parts of your site
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:34 AM

Oh I can spotlight some of these too, huh? DOH!
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:34 AM

Gross, Jordan.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:34 AM

yeah, mano , get your spotlight on
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:35 AM

all right - how do you decide what to cover in "cyberculture?"
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:35 AM

Cyberculture is very specific to the Internet and that's basically the definition: The culture of the Internet.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:36 AM

so you obviously have some strong opinions on general behavior in the online realm. how would you like to see it improve?
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:36 AM

For example, before I had the website, I ran a BBS, which is Bulletin Board System. That part of cyberculture is largely forgotten because so many people online today only arrived a few years ago.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:37 AM

Online behavior? That's a tough nut to crack.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:37 AM

how is Tawkers like the old bulletin board culture?
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:38 AM

★ Spotlighted from Rick Rosner

“If this Tawk is weird I'm the Pope.”

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:38 AM

your holiness
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:38 AM

Back in The Day, BBSes had forums and e-mail exchanges, so this format is a lot like that.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:38 AM

Funny hat, Rick.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:38 AM

But I agree. I'm not all that "weird."
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:39 AM

Well -let's weird it up by going to my FAVORITE part of your site - the odd blog
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:39 AM

Yeah I like The OddBlog quite a bit myself.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:39 AM

★ Spotlighted from Kelly Carlin

“I feel that we have all been on the internet enough these last years, that the sanest of us are getting weary of the BS. If it doesn't add to the quality of my life, I am less and less inclined to spend time on it.”

MD

Mano Dogs · 1:40 AM

I couldn't agree more, Kelly Carlin. But it's not the Internet; it really is the people.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:40 AM

well said, Kelly -although those are the conditions necessary for the creation of better communitie, because we need to connect whether we like it or not
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:40 AM

That's why you're here, Kelly Carlin.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:41 AM

so Mano - tell them about the odd blog
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:41 AM

★ Spotlighted from Kelly Carlin

“No, that's "odd broad"”

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:41 AM

no - its odd BLOG
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:41 AM

The OddBlog covers all things weird and unexplained - Loch Ness Monster, Mothman, Batboy (well not so much Batboy), etc.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:42 AM

OK -to what degree is Odd Blog tongue in cheeck, and to what degree is it totally serious?
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:42 AM

Magic, religion, all kinds of stuff.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:42 AM

Actually I try to vet the stories on The OddBlog and choose those I feel are actually unbelievable.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:43 AM

and if you care to reclassify yourself as "weird" again, feel free!
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:43 AM

For example, I'd really like to hear more about this meteor.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:43 AM

lol
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:43 AM

my confidence in your justifiable skepticism may have just taken a hit
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:44 AM

so what have you reported on the odd blog that you think is the most hands down compelliung evidence of proof of anything?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:44 AM

★ Spotlighted from Seth Hochman

“This chat is everything you want in a weirdness chat except weird”

MD

Mano Dogs · 1:44 AM

Hrm. I am rarely considered skeptical. In fact, I've taken lot of hits throughout the years specifically for believing in such things.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:44 AM

somebody call the weird police!
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:44 AM

lol. Yes, I wondered about that too.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:45 AM

★ Spotlighted from Lucy Dyer

“i'm not weird..its just that everyone else is”

MD

Mano Dogs · 1:45 AM

The site itself is called The Weirding from Frank Herbert's novel, Dune. I'm actually not all that "weird" - at least not by my standards.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:45 AM

its not you, it's me
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:45 AM

Yeah, Jordan's weird.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:46 AM

so you devote a site to out-of-print tabletop role playing games, coimic books and sequential art and report on the Loch Ness monster and witchcraft, but you're not weird.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:46 AM

No, most people seem pretty normal to me. I'm definitely "weird" to some degree but that's because I'm a comic book, D&D -type person.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:47 AM

Exactly! NOW you understand my point! lol
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:47 AM

I think that stuff's considered "weird" by most people. At least it used to be.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:47 AM

so another thing on your site that made me laugh out loud was weird ink
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:48 AM

here's how he describes weird ink: How To Write And Why You Probably Shouldn't
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:48 AM

I did not know that. Then I'm far less "weird" than just "nerd."
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:48 AM

★ Spotlighted from Kelly Carlin

“weird: Old English wyrd (n.) "fate, destiny," literally "that which comes," from Proto-Germanic *wurthis”

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:49 AM

that was a good first spotlight, mano!
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:49 AM

Yes Weird Ink was started back when I ws really into learning how to write. But once I learned how to write, I quit poring over books and sites on the craft and just started doing.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:49 AM

I spotlit something earlier.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:50 AM

OK -back to weird ink - why shouldn't people write? and if that's the case, why are you teaching them how to do it?
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:50 AM

I no longer am.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:50 AM

There are something like 4x as many writers as there are readers. The publishing industry is crashing fast. Or it was, it seems to have rebound a bit here lately.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:51 AM

Aww, Lucy. Do I really look like Michael Jordn?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:51 AM

4x as many writers as readers sounds EXACTLY like Facebook and Twitter!
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:51 AM

LOL Exactly!
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:51 AM

Well, Twitter is all comedians.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:51 AM

★ Spotlighted from Rick Rosner

“People should write to themselves, at least. The rest of us probably don't give a shit.”

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:51 AM

strange thing to say from a man attending a Tawk...
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:52 AM

★ Spotlighted from Lucy Dyer

“i do all the time,rick. keeps me sane”

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:52 AM

★ Spotlighted from Seth Hochman

“I thought going to these Tawks keep you sane Lucy”

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:52 AM

now THAT'S what I call a writer's room!
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:52 AM

FB is mostly family-friendly type stuff. That's why I liked Twitter so much - it's a freer environment.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:52 AM

but it lost you
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:52 AM

twitter I mnean
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:53 AM

Well, not really. I'm on there sometimes but I just started going back.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:53 AM

I had to set my account to private and, darndest thing Jordan, Kelly, Lucy, et.al. SOMEHOW my posts kept getting out!
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:53 AM

★ Spotlighted from Seth Hochman

“JB why am I getting spell-corrected on the word Tawk when I am on the Tawkers site?”

MD

Mano Dogs · 1:53 AM

And people, well people were none to pleased with my "attitude" or the jokes I like. I'm a bad taste kind of guy.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:54 AM

its on your computer / browser, Seth. and great time to ask, thanks!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:54 AM

★ Spotlighted from Lucy Dyer

“one of lifes great mysteries,seth”

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:54 AM

you are a little of a bad taste guy, but you're still charming despite yourself
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:54 AM

★ Spotlighted from Rick Rosner

“I amuse myself, therefore I am.”

MD

Mano Dogs · 1:54 AM

Why thank you, sir.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:55 AM

mental masturbation, Rick?
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:55 AM

If you go to the directories on the site, you'll find links to all sorts of things like B-rated horror flicks, sci-fi TV shows/radio - all cool stuff you can find online.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:56 AM

OK Mano - last question - you ready?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:56 AM

★ Spotlighted from Lucy Dyer

“tis why Rick comes here JB. to let it all out”

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:56 AM

★ Spotlighted from Seth Hochman

“Rick a little too much info”

MD

Mano Dogs · 1:56 AM

Hit me.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:56 AM

how do you describe the difference between being in the forum and being on stage for a Tawk?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:57 AM

★ Spotlighted from Lucy Dyer

“i so wish i was funny in real life”

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:57 AM

real life is lame
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:57 AM

I wish you were funny here, Lucy!
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:57 AM

Which forum?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:57 AM

The tawkers forum
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:57 AM

you know, this thing we're doing, where we met
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:58 AM

it's that thing on your computer
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:58 AM

Your question is redundant then. I see no difference.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:58 AM

★ Spotlighted from Seth Hochman

“We've dildos in misfit boxes, people amusing themselves and people stalking Websites...I guess it did get a little weird after all”

MD

Mano Dogs · 1:58 AM

lol @ Seth
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:58 AM

Now THAT is what I call a conclusion!!!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:59 AM

This was weird!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:59 AM

Mano - did you have fun?
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:59 AM

I did, thank you. But I guess I'm not all that weird, huh?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:59 AM

trust me. you're extremely weird. in a good way.
MD

Mano Dogs · 1:59 AM

So I've heard.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 2:00 AM

all friends - this was really fun
MD

Mano Dogs · 2:00 AM

BYE TAWKERS!
MD

Mano Dogs · 2:00 AM

BYE SETH! BYE LUCY! BYE KELLY CARLIN!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 2:00 AM

thanks for hanging, and doing this:
MD

Mano Dogs · 2:00 AM

And everyone to whom we've been chatting that I cannot see!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 2:00 AM

★ Spotlighted from Lucy Dyer

“tis why there is Tawkers. where i can run nakkid thru the voyeurs of speech and intellectual mental massaging!”

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 2:01 AM

gnite all. remember you are NOT alone!
MD

Mano Dogs · 2:01 AM

They're watching us!!!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 2:02 AM

★ Spotlighted from Seth Hochman

“NSA even gets into weirdness chats?”