{ "item_title" : "My Shorts R Bunching. Thoughts?", "item_author" : [" G. B. Trudeau "], "item_description" : "Hilarious -- Jake Tapper, ABC News Hilarious -- Karen Tumulty, TIME Hilarious -- Erin Moriarity, CBS News In March of 2009, Doonesbury's intrepid journalist Roland Burton Hedley, III, opened a Twitter account and began to tweet. A lot. Four weeks later, a sampling of his 140-character missives was published in The New Yorker to great acclaim, and his posts were featured in a one-on-one tweet-off in the Columbia Journalism Review. Rushed into print, this groundbreaking volume is the first book-length Twitter collection by a single author. With dozens of Doonesbury strips and over 500 tweets, it presents the best of Hedley's work -- frontline micro-blogging from the self-anointed dean of Washington journotwits. Eight months into this project, author G.B. Trudeau can confirm that Twitter is a colossal sinkhole of time, but is gratified that he has found a way to monetize Roland's inane postings. (Follow Roland_Hedley.) When not writing comedy haiku on Twitter, Trudeau writes and draws the Pulitzer-prize-winning comic strip Doonesbury for 1100 newspapers worldwide, and lovingly curates his web presence at Doonesbury.com. He also hosts a milblog called The Sandbox. From the book: Just spotted colleague Terry Moran in hall. Could wave, but easier to tweet. Hey, dude. 10:49 AM Mar 18th from Tweetdeck Bumped into an old stalker of mine at Borders. She'd lost some weight and looked terrific, but I tweeted 911 anyway. Cops arrived from 3 states. 1:43 PM Mar7th from Blackberry I refuse to apologize for making time for my kid's ball games, so I usually end up not going. 9:13 AM May 4th from web Had close call watching MJ memorial service. They ended 'We are the World' before I could jimmy open my gun closet and blow my brains out. 12:33 PM Jul 7th from web While speaking last night, someone threw panties on stage. Or boxers. Whatever. Times like that, always ask myself: What would The Boss do? 5:13 PM Mar 12th from web Kabul. Awakened by huge blast in hotel lobby. Suicide bomber blew up complimentary breakfast buffet. Off to find bagel. 3:14 PM Apr 8th from Tweetdeck Accompanying HMMV patrol, used on-board computer to order Ab Rocket. And because I acted when I did, receiving second one absolutely free. 8:01 PM Apr 13th from Blackberry", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/74/079/109/0740791095_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "8.99", "online_price" : "8.99", "our_price" : "8.99", "club_price" : "8.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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