{"id":1089,"date":"2009-08-31T20:48:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T01:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/blog\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2022-01-18T14:33:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T22:33:35","slug":"if-i-should-die-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/?p=1089","title":{"rendered":"If I Should Die Tonight…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…please know that my last tweet probably means bupkis. \u00a0Nothing deep. \u00a0Just something I thought of right fast. \u00a0Had to let you know that before I mess around, get hit by a bus, and you guys think of putting any of that stuff on my tombstone.
\nAfter DJ AM died, I saw zillions of people talking about how “deep” his last tweet was. \u00a0That tweet<\/a> reads as follows.
\n“New york, new york. Big city of dreams, but everything in new york aint always what it seems.”
\nIt’s funny. \u00a0I just see Dogg Pound lyrics. \u00a0I listened to the radio on Monday, and I heard people saying that was “deep.” \u00a0Read the same thing on Twitter a few times.
\nWhere is this depth?
\nSometimes, people die. \u00a0And everything they did right before they died was their last something. \u00a0Last meal, last shower, last date, everything. \u00a0Stuff doesn’t get deep because your numbers was called. \u00a0If it’s not a suicide note, it’s just a friggin’ coincidence, in all likelihood.
\nAs for this one? \u00a0I bet a million people go to New York and send that. \u00a0If one of my friends did, I’d silently remark how cliche that was.
\nIf that tweet is deep, then let me offer some more wisdom from those sages from Long Beach.
\n“I’m dishin out blues, I’m upsetting like bad news, cutoff khakis, french braids, and house shoes.”
\nCall me Confucius, baby.
\nSee, this is why you don’t say anything crucial on Twitter. \u00a0For one, if it’s crucial and you put it out there, you’re either talking too much about your business or crying out for help. \u00a0Neither is a good look. \u00a0Cut that shit out.
\nBut there’s the other thing — Twitter can be an armchair psychologist’s dream. \u00a0I readily admit that I follow Donte’ Stallworth just to get a glimpse of what his life’s like right now, and I find it to be really interesting. \u00a0I’m not about to crack into his psyche with this, but it’s a trip to see him cheer on his teammates knowing why all he can do is tweet. \u00a0My voyeuristic side loves this stuff.
\nBut hey man, it’s Twitter. \u00a0Let’s not get carried away.
\nBut we’re in a world where people are delving into Michael Beasley’s tweets like they’re from his journal or something. \u00a0Is Beasley troubled? \u00a0Sounds like it. \u00a0Do his suicidal-sounding tweets mean that he was going to kill himself? \u00a0Maybe, I guess.
\nOr maybe he’s just the cat that overreacts.
\nOr maybe he’s got a really bad sense of humor.
\nI have no idea.
\nBut in a world where people are so desperate for answers and quick to jump to conclusions, you better keep in mind that each tweet might be your last.
\nMyself, I’m comfortable with the epitaph on my headstone being this right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…please know that my last tweet probably means bupkis. \u00a0Nothing deep. \u00a0Just something I thought of right fast. \u00a0Had to let you know that before I mess around, get hit by a bus, and you guys think of putting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-boblogs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}