How Our Favorite Twitter Alien Is Handling This Bizarre Year
Jonny Sun is Twitter-famous. Not in a Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber sort of way. He's Weird Twitter-famous. He's got half a million followers and he did it the hard way, by inhabiting the character of Jomny Sun, an alien visiting earth without any friends or a solid grasp of spelling in the English language.
Jonny's now a published author, a playwright and an architect, he's coded two of Twitter's most popular bot accounts, oh, and he's studying for his doctorate at a little place called MIT. Heard of it?
Dude is super smart, super funny and while normal people like us have to practice and study to get better at things, he probably learns like Trinity in The Matrix learning how to fly a helicopter. So this week Alex Schmidt and Daniel O'Brien are joined by Jonny in-studio to talk about his book full of typos, juggling being an author-internet celebrity-architect-playwright and the state of internet cultures in 2017.
Footnotes:
Book: Jonny Sun: Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too
@JonnySun: CANADIAN: im a canadian DATE: cool i've never met a comedian befor CANADIAN:
Article: New York Times: How a Joke Became a Meme: The Birth of Milkshake Duck
Chuck Jones' 9 Rules For All Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote Interactions
Play: Jonny Sun: Fried Mussels
Book: Jack Handy: The Stench of Honolulu
Book: Dana Boyd: It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
Video: The USS Nimitz Barbershop
Article: KTLA: Starbucks Opens Coffee Shop on Navy Warship
Graphic Novel: Art Spiegelman: In the Shadow of No Towers
Play: Shel Silverstein: The Best Daddy
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