Twitter

So I've taken the plunge and I'm all-in on Twitter. I first leapfrogged the irrepressible social networking site Facebook.com and landed on Twitter as a joke, as a way to show people that I too can do this and I don't need Facebook. Now I've been sucked in by an unstoppable force to the world of Twitter.

I have, however, found an area I really like to use my tweets, I don't typically tweet while working, and I don't tweet anything my mother wouldn't be able to read. So I feel like I'm ok.

The Twitter groove I'm in mostly revolves around my appetite. What is Snakebite craving? What is Snakebite eating for dinner? Lunch? Dessert? What about others?

Does anybody need to know this stuff? Of course not, but you're following me moron so get out of here if you don't want this jibber jabber. It's sort of like calling someone when they are taking a nap. They answer with that groggy sort of voice, and you feel compelled to postpone the conversation later. Not me...you answered, dummy. If you didn't want to talk and wanted to sleep, silence your phone.

But I digress. In a city like New Orleans, all kinds of restaurants exist with an assortment of world class, yet undiscovered, chefs. They're everywhere and they cook up some mean food. I tend to follow mostly people who like to tweet about what they are eating, where they are eating, and Taceaux Loceaux (the taco truck - @TLNola). I tweet the same stuff as most of these guys, and pictures always help.

The "tweeple" have become my sort of cookbook/restaurant guide and the best part about it is that you know who they are so you know based on their assessments if you will actually like a place or not.

As for tweeting from home, one character recently tweeted a meal he was cooking that night. Sure enough, the next week, I had to try it so I cooked it myself. It was a simple operation involving shrimp and pasta, but after tweeting that I was in the process of digesting @PBrowne3's meal from a week before, by lunch the next day I was all of the sudden in a cookoff with 3 other tweeple.

You can bet your bottom dollar that the cookoff will be one for the record books, even though it will be off the books. We'll bar-b-que shrimp and throw them in pasta with your own sort of sauce. @PBrowne3 will have mushrooms, but I will not because I don't care for them, and even though I want to win, I'm here to satisfy #1 so I don't step in #2. I'll just head in a different direction and have to make a name for myself.

Anyway, Twitter is great. Plus John Daly, yes the golfer, tweeted at me the other day. That's awesome. (I asked him if he was coming to NOLA for the Sugar Bowl game and yes, yes he was.)

P.S. We will probably do the cookoff over a multiple day period so as to not cook too much food. We are also thinking about bringing additional meals into play. Not sure what we're doing about judge's as of this time, but I'll keep you posted.