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Power Out: An @yoyoha Live Tweet Event
About a month ago, just before we put the kids to bed, the power went out. This is a log of the events that followed, in a live tweet format.
Power out. Minute one. All is lost.
7:49 PM Jun 27th via Twitterrific
Power out. Minute three. Four of us huddled around soft glow of iPod video screen. Earbuds are warm from sharing. I am getting nauseous.
7:52 PM Jun 27th via Twitterrific
Power out. Minute six. Children are uneasy. Wife & I are exchanging sorrowful looks and remembering happier times twenty minutes ago.
7:55 PM Jun 27th via Twitterrific
Power out. Minute ten. My suggestion of burning dining room set for fuel likely will not help us restart the air conditioner.
8:00 PM Jun 27th via Twitterrific
Power out. Minute 15. Wife and I almost come to blows over decision to use last of iPod battery on instrumental cuts from Yellow Submarine.
8:05 PM Jun 27th via Twitterrific
Power out. Minute 19. Interrupting kids bedtime stories every few pages to yell WHY HATH YOU FORSAKEN ME at light fixture.
8:10 PM Jun 27th via Twitterrific
Power out. Minute 26. So thirsty. Regretting decision to be first one on block with electric plumbing fixtures.
8:17 PM Jun 27th via Twitterrific
Power out. Minute 30. Kids sleeping. Now drawing favorite Ross & Rachel ‘We were on a break’ scene on tv screen with grease pencil. Sobbing
8:21 PM Jun 27th via Twitterrific
Power out. min 41. Drinking highball of warm vodka in effort to dull bi-minutely urge to “just put a DVD in.”
8:32 PM Jun 27th via Twitterrific
Power out. Minute 53. Getting weak. Making kids Baby Einstein puppets say awful, awful things to each other. Send help.
June 27, 2010 8:44:00 PM EDT via Twitterrific
Power out. Minute 72. Shrouded in darkness. Using candle to make shadows of famous cultural icons with genitals. Hysteria is near.
June 27, 2010 9:03:25 PM EDT via Twitterrific
Power out. Minute 88. Very quiet now. Every few minutes I hear someone screaming YAHTZEE across the street. Doors locked shotgun is loaded.
June 27, 2010 9:19:37 PM EDT via Twitterrific
Power out. Minute 106. Almost killed recreating final scene from The Graduate on neighbors patio doors. His wife, Elaine, noticeably shaken.
June 27, 2010 9:37:47 PM EDT via Twitterrific
Power out. Minute 121. Trying to pop bag of microwave popcorn with prayer.
June 27, 2010 10:02:26 PM EDT via Twitterrific
Power out. Minute 143. Self-diagnosed malignant tumor in forearm with big flashlite. Using it as excuse to eat rest of 3yo’s birthday cake.
June 27, 2010 10:24:21 PM EDT via Twitterrific
Power out. Last breaths of night evaporating like morning’s mist from a window pane. Minutes of phone life left. Drowning in thought. Death
June 27, 2010 11:28:41 PM EDT via Twitterrific
POWER BACK ON. Sweet. That was close.
June 27, 2010 11:30:05 PM EDT via web
Power still on. Stayed up extra late to turn on every electrical appliance in effort to repress carbon footprint back into Earth’s face.
June 28, 2010 8:14:39 AM EDT via Twitterrific
~ fin ~
