Hello – I know I’m a bit late, but luckily this weeks Wiretap episode was a rerun. Entitled “Get With it.” Unsurprisingly, my lazy ass hasn’t summarized this episode from season two. I’ll get around to it soon.For now, it should suffice to say that this is the episode where Jonathan discovers that Howard has been confiding in his mother over the phone once a week, maybe twice a week, sometimes three or four times a week or more. Also, according to the official CBC blurb, this is the very first episode to feature Gregor Ehrlich:
This week on the podcast, we unearth from the Wiretap archives Gregor Ehrlich’s very first appearance on the show, back when he was a radical marketing specialist. Named Earl. Plus, Jonathan discovers an unsettling connection between his mother and Howard.
Earl, eh? It’s like the pilot of Seinfeld when Kramer has a dog and Elaine doesn’t exist. Everything is strange and nebulous…
Listen for yourself at the CBC Wiretap official podcast: “Get With It.”
Anyway, last week’s National Post article featured more Twitter musings between Jonathan and Tony Asimakopoulos(I think I spell that right 25 percent of the time here on this blog).
“I think Ben and Jerry’s should turn Aerosmith’s Sweet Emotion into an ice cream flavour,” I say, trying to lighten the mood.
“Mind if I Twitter that?” he asks.
“Could you imagine our grandfathers twittering?” I ask.
“From the age of eight my grandfather worked 19 hours a day milking goats and digging wells. The man considered penicillin a frivolous luxury. He’d never have had time or patience for social networking technology.”
“I don’t even think my grandfather knew how to use a fast food drive-through speaker,” I say. “I was once with him when he tried to order at a Wendy’s. He started yelling for boiled eggs in all directions. Didn’t even bother to roll down the car window. Without Twitter, what did they do to let casual acquaintances and strangers know what they were doing 15 times a day?”
“Screamed out the window,” he says, “if they were lucky enough to have a window.”
“Sure, screaming was good as a ‘mass email’ to friends and neighbours,” I say, “but what about a good and proper status update to the community at large?”
“Simple,” Tony says. “They drew a crowd by getting themselves beaten across the back with a horse whip in the town square.”
“Which communicated what?”
” ‘Wassup, y’all? I’m getting beaten across the back with a horse whip in the town square.’”
