This is seriously the best thing that’s happened to me in a while. I mean, my cousin posting my grandmother’s Ricotta Pie recipe on the internet was a good thing*, but this is better.
As you know, I’ve been iffy on Twitter, the internet craze that my mother signed up for before I did. And, you know, I’ll sign up for anything. On the one hand, it’s really silly that, for instance, shoe companies decide to “follow” me every time I post something about the awesome new shoes I got in Chicago. As though their following me means anything besides “we did a keyword search and you mentioned shoes, so we hope that our following you doesn’t seem like an overly desperate plea for you to follow us back.” On the other hand I like it, because I don’t really get paid to write anywhere anymore and the character limit seriously does make me think about things like word choice in a practical way that I haven’t since college.
But blowing both of those factors out of the water, I just got a Twitter reply from SOLANGE freaking KNOWLES. See:
I had Twittered my friend Kate Schatz–former Providence resident, author of one of those infernal 33 1/3 books, and soon-to-be mother of a real live child–and casually mentioned that @solangeknowles and @kristinhersh (both awesome musicians and mom-types themselves) were basically the only reasons to join Twitter. And lo and behold, Solange wrote back. It’s like a dream come true, albeit a really brief dream that only takes place on the internet.
And so to celebrate, for possibly the last time, here is the video for Solange’s so-amazing-it-hurts-yet-no-longer-embeddable T.O.N.Y. This clip, amazing though it is, is now gone from Youtube except in some odd double-speed fashion, and the Dailymotion video for it has noticeable gaps as well. What’s the deal?
[*It's something my people--the Italian-Americans--make for Easter, and my mother refuses to give me the recipe. But I made one (actually two) and holy crap did it taste wonderful. Not that you can go wrong with a nine-egg pie, but still.]
