Broadcasting minutiae

I didn't think I was interested in tweeting. I'm not into Twitter but I thought I would connect my blog to see how that was done. I like puzzles. It was easy though, no big deal.

It's funny because as a kid I was all about broadcasting, it was all I could think about. I tried a neighborhood newspaper but it did not run after v.1:1 1979. My only subscribers were these kids next door and they moved away. I rigged up ways to transmit on a transistor FM radio using one walkie talkie my Fisher Price turntable and a Fisher Price tape recorder. My homemade ads for fake musicals coming to town, interviews and PSAs were recorded on tape. I played 45's on the turntable and it all went through a walkie talkie that was always "on" thanks to a tight band of duck tape wrapped around it (rubber bands never worked). It sat on a stack of National Geographics in my room and was propped up near the tiny turntable speaker. Outside in the backyard was the transistor radio and my prime demographic, my younger brother. He would update me on the status of my broadcast by running up to the bedroom window offering such criticisms as, "There is too much static!"

"There is this weird noise, and it's LOUD!"

"It's Spanish now so change the channel...QUICK!"

What would ruin transmission was interference from other walkie talkies used by Spanish speakers nearby, radios used by border patrolmen, planes flying overhead or my mom using any electrical kitchen appliance.

Blogging appealed to me because I could broadcast thoughts, music, video clips, ideas, musings, ponderments and general minutiae du jour to this tiny demographic that knows me. Perfect, it's my childhood summers all over again, improved.

So new blog entries will be announced on Twitter, for all those within my tiny demographic who actually use Twitter. Honestly, I have never used this service. There is only room for 140 characters. Is that enough space for a haiku? I think it's enough space for titles of new blog entries on minutiae. Minutiae announcing minutiae.