During a completely tedious and infuriating day at work, my entertainment comes from checking on my Twitter account during breaks.
How stoked was I to see that Storm of the comedy music duo Paul and Storm was engaging their Twitter followers in a short interactive that was reminiscent of Zork. It kept me laughing the entire day and I figured I would share the game with you before it’s lost in the annals of Twitter.
[S] You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door and a sign that says “Retweet”.
.@just_mike >take sign / The sign is affixed to the house by very large bolts, and can not be moved.
.@zxo >inv / You have: one portable computer device, a sequined glove, and a parrot.
.@jawboneradio >use portable computer device / You take the device in hand. Its display reads: http://bit.ly/czZzn1
.@tanuki_green > Put on glove / You are now wearing the sequined glove. You hear music.
.@Spam286 >Moonwalk west. / You moonwalk west. You are standing in a field. There is a sequined computer terminal and a cannon
.@smokehalo >say “hello parrot” / The parrot says “hello parrot”
.@PamsterG >put parrot in cannon / The parrot is now in the cannon.
.@druidsfire >fire cannon with SCIENCE! / You have not yet acquired SCIENCE. The parrot says “hello parrot”.
.@roane >Oy, unfollowing @paulandstorm for now. Wish Twitter Snooze still worked. / Everyone except @roane is given cake.
.@MsFruitcake >put @roane in cannon with parrot / Although @roane does not get cake, she contains 99.9% Awesome–too much for the cannon.
.@Fayili >Use the glove to interface with computer terminal / You spin around twice and a message appears on the screen http://bit.ly/czZzn1
.@ThePooh269 >inventory / You have a portable computing device, cake, and SCIENCE acquired from interaction with computer terminal.
.@tr0tsky0 >fire cannon with SCIENCE / For some reason you can not get a grip on the firing cord.
.@roane >remove glove / You remove the glove. The parrot says “Put the glove back on”.
.@jlchianese >fire cannon with SCIENCE / You fire the cannon. The parrot shoots a mile up and bursts into a kaleidescope of smaller birds…
…which quickly arrange themselves into a message that reads http://bit.ly/czZzn1. You feel relieved that your adventure is now over.
The boys have been known to start/continue hashtag riots. One of the most notable started by one of them being the #kanyenewyorkertweets. A few of my favorites have been #bookplugs, #krakenmemes, #badpromthemes, and #passiveaggressivemovies.
In addition, Paul and Storm have brought “is the name of” one-liners back into my life. For that, they get an internet hug.
I’m a big fan of their podcast “Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (on Average)“ and that brought me to their “25 Days of Newman”, a podcast feed devoted to movie summaries were they sung by Randy Newman. Pee before you listen to them. Seriously.
They’re a comedy music duo as I had mentioned before. You have probably heard a song that they had created if you frequent this website. They penned and performed the theme song for “Little Guildies“, the Guild’s April Fools Day joke. With compelling songs like “If James Taylor Were on Fire at the Bottom of a Well” and ”Frogger! The Frogger Musical”, I would be shocked to learn you haven’t bought their stuff. Fix that.
Paul and Storm are two of the original four to start w00tstock (the other two being Adam Savage and Wil Wheaton [You know, that guy I traveled through time with?]). w00tstock is a night of songs, readings, comedy, demonstrations, short films, and special guests. w00tstock will actually hit New York and Boston at the end of this month. I want to go… so bad…
Alright. There are so many other things I could tell you, but why don’t you just visit their site, join their brigade of minions, buy their songs, subscribe to their podcast, and/or follow them on Twitter?
(Haha! I actually just intended on showing you all the fun from today’s Twitter and all of this poured out!)
