On July 2, 1982, something historic happened. A former truck driver named Larry Walters decided that he was finally going to fulfill his 20-year dream of soaring with the eagles…by strapping 45 eight-foot weather balloons to a lawn chair and cutting the rope, allowing him to drift up into the beautiful blue sky like he’d always wanted. “Lawn Chair Larry” had only planned to float about 100 feet in the air, but as soon as he cut the rope holding the chair to his Jeep, he immediately soared to a height of about three miles. After spending a certain amount of time (anywhere from 45 minutes to 14 hours, I’ve read) alone in federal airspace with nothing but a lawn chair and some beer and sandwiches, he decided to start popping the weather balloons with a pellet gun he’d brought along (he was obviously a thinkin’ man). He slowly descended into a Long Beach neighborhood where he got tangled up in some power lines and caused a blackout. He calmly climbed down and into the handcuffs of the waiting police force, saying, “A man can’t just sit around.”

Also, I was born. Happy July 2, everybody!

Who Twitters? That’s a question I see more and more on the web lately. Twitter membership is seemingly growing by leaps and bounds, and if you’re anything more than a casual internet surfer, you’ve probably heard of it. Heck, you may even already use it. I’m actually pretty far behind the times for only coming around to adopting it now. However! If you’re unfamiliar with Twitter, you’re probably familiar with either MySpace or Facebook, so I’ll explain it like this: You know those “status updates” on Myspace and Facebook where you can write a little blurb about what you’re doing right now? That’s what you do on Twitter. You write these little blurbs about what’s going on in your life, and people can “follow” you (i.e. be kept up-to-date with your Twitter posts) and you can follow them. It also keeps a log of all your past Twitter posts (called “Tweets”), so in essence, it’s like a tiny blog. You can then post a box that houses your most recent Tweet on your MySpace page, or any website of your choosing if you’re savvy enough. If you’re a normal internet user and you feel like it’s already a hassle to update your status on Myspace and Facebook and you don’t see the point of using Twitter, well, I guess I can’t blame you. But, it does offer a unique way for me to connect with you, my loyal and attractive readers, without having to make full-blown blog posts every three hours.

So, anyway, I’ve had a Twitter account for something like a year and a half, but it wasn’t until a few days ago that I started putting my Twitter feed here on George. If you scroll down and look beneath the tower ad that runs on the right side of the site, you’ll see a little box with my latest Tweet in it. Or, you can head over to http://twitter.com/georgecomics and follow my Twitter feed. That is, if you feel like it. No pressureDO IT NOW!!