{"id":19439,"date":"2013-07-03T06:39:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T10:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=19439"},"modified":"2013-07-03T10:14:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T14:14:35","slug":"tweet-100000-or-the-terribleminds-guide-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/07\/03\/tweet-100000-or-the-terribleminds-guide-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweet #100,000 (Or: &#8220;The Terribleminds Guide To Life&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I may have some kind of parasite. Some little blue-bird buried into my brainmeats, whose incessant chirps drive me to tweet endlessly anon.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. Monday night came around and I was leading up to Tweet #100,000, and I was already a little goofy on ice cream and bee&#8217;s knees cocktails, so I figured I&#8217;d launch into a kind of\u00a0<em>the first ten pieces of wisdom that fall out of my upended buckethead.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For those that missed this on Twitter come Monday night, well.<\/p>\n<p>Here y&#8217;go.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>1. Fuck \u2018em if they can\u2019t take a joke. But don\u2019t fuck up the joke, because then, hey fuck you. Funny is funny but not everything is funny.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckWendig\/statuses\/351879387311906816\">July 2, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>2. Sometimes to fix something, you first gotta break it. This is true in writing. This is true in life. Probably not true in sex, though.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckWendig\/statuses\/351879523995885569\">July 2, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>3. If you\u2019re surrounded by assholes, oops, you\u2019re probably the asshole. Stop inflicting yourself on everybody like a curse. Jerk.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckWendig\/statuses\/351879604270665730\">July 2, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>4. You get one turn on the carousel and after that, who fucking knows? Own it. Love it. Find happy. Cling to happy like a koala on a tree.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckWendig\/statuses\/351879710613053440\">July 2, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>5. The other thing about happiness is, it only works when yours doesn\u2019t steal from somebody else\u2019s. You do that, you\u2019re an asshole.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckWendig\/statuses\/351879758201626626\">July 2, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>6. If you have the chance to join the Star League as the Last Starfighter, TAKE IT. I mean, c\u2019mon. DO I HAVE TO EXPLAIN THIS? No. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23no&amp;src=hash\">#no<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckWendig\/statuses\/351879894575230977\">July 2, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>7. Regret is a fool\u2019s game unless you have a time-traveling Delorean. Otherwise, learn your lesson and move the fuck on.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckWendig\/statuses\/351879977563725824\">July 2, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>8. We\u2019re terrible judges of our own self-worth so when you feel that incubus of doubt and fear, starve it of attention. That&#8217;s how it dies.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckWendig\/statuses\/351880042969706496\">July 2, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>9. Be a fountain, not a drain.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckWendig\/statuses\/351880077593677824\">July 2, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>10. Create something. We are what we leave behind: life, love, stories, music, whatever. As always: art harder, motherfucker.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckWendig\/statuses\/351880139782631424\">July 2, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>And that was tweet 100,000 by my count.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckWendig\/statuses\/351880475696046082\">July 2, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Tweet 100,002: CHIMPANZEE DIAPER UNICORN POOP HOBO LAMBORGHINI ORANGUTAN LEPRECHAUN SWAMP MONSTER AMANDA BYNES IA IA GAGA BIEBER FTHAGN<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckWendig\/statuses\/351880730932031488\">July 2, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may have some kind of parasite. Some little blue-bird buried into my brainmeats, whose incessant chirps drive me to tweet endlessly anon. Anyway. Monday night came around and I was leading up to Tweet #100,000, and I was already a little goofy on ice cream and bee&#8217;s knees cocktails, so I figured I&#8217;d launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-53x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19439"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19448,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19439\/revisions\/19448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}