Parody from in-the-works play “Limited Characters”

Brian Crouch — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:54:30 +0000

Background: this is from my in-development comedy “Limited Characters.” It’s a musical interlude soon after the hero, Robin, is coerced into betraying her ‘social media values’ by pretending to be her boss on a blog and social web tools such as twitter. The song is about her realizing how much of her own social media identity will be lost, which has been so important to her over the years… she is riding the bus home as the song echoes her thoughts….

(To tune of “Running to Stand Still” by U2 [which is about addiction!])

And so she logged in
Logged in from the bus she was riding in
Sayin’ I gotta tweet something about where I’m going
Step on the cluetrain
Pull my career out of the drain
Maybe… blog from a plane while in flight
Singing ha, LOL LO-L
LMAO LOL
R-O-T-F-L

Tweet the spin
Better, the place of our brand….
I see seven channels
But I only see one vid’s out
You got to blog that man’s feelings
Talk without speaking
TWEET without USING ALL CAPS
You know I took that update from the friendfeed stream
Then I linked it back to here
Singing ha, LOL LO-L
LMAO LOL
ROTFL

She reads through the tweets with her eyes turning red
Under a black-hat tagcloud in her brain

In through a netbook

She brings me wild non sequiturs
Stolen from the feed: she’s retweeting, she’s retweeting…
And no idea has entered her mind.
She will suffer the blogger chill,
She’s writing against… her will…

Anybody interested in recording this with me? Leave me a comment!

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Parody from in-the-works play “Limited Characters”