Being Beta

Exercises in the higher banter with One of 26. Elsewhere called 'poet of adland'. By a whipple-squeezer. Find out why being beta is the new alpha: betarish at googlemail dot com

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Listorama: Facebook status updates vol 36

What's on your mind (BetaRish)?


The lamps never go out on social media

is an extended preamble


is struggling with remoteness, access


is tousled of mane


lacks a usable phrase for this slot


is a series of watery adjectives


The clowns have it hardest


is a silo-buster


1914 called. It wants its geopolitical instability back


has a knickerbocker and doesn’t know what to do with it


is readying his album of sentimental presentiments


Always good to bump into Beth Emmens in Hammersmith, plotting world domination


Will you still love a man out of time?


is quiet, and the good citizen is happy


is trying to discourage frivolous Facebooking, especially by servants


is dodging the inevitable


Bouncy bouncy run stop


is practising his forward defensive


is he?


is making hard lemonade


is the results of love and wine


is a dromomaniac


has been today he hasn’t filled this bit in


Crank, squeak, grind, pffut. That’d be my back saying hello


is a haptic interface


Whither the weather? Whatever


Tell you what


I wrote for luck


is still contemplating a riot after The Riot Club


Hello democracy!


Fag-packet constitution? Or the back of an envelope job?


Destiny thy name is Scone


is living in a Buster Keaton movie today


But what was decided?


This bird is waddling


Wishes J. Alfred a happy birthday


Bend and flex, flex and bend


Taste is on the tongue of the beholder


and the blue eagle blues


r u gonna poem doe? #nationalpoemday


is a house of tine and timber


Oh man, nervous already


Well, on we go


is being tidal


[insert rant about senior management types here]


Not sure emojis are widening my vocabulary


is now being followed by a black sheep


has failed to do this today


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