i've seen a bunch of... um... "older" folks using the worst shorthand while txtng/tweeting. it's like they are trying to be young and utterly failing. i mean: OMG ur FAIL!!1! or something.

Or we could find an actual poet to read instead of looking to Twitter to fulfill our literary needs

I like that image. It assuages my fear that Cher is going to bite me.

She used "it's" correctly, so my expectations have already been exceeded.

Having successfully avoided the purchase of any of Cher's music my entire life, I am only threatened by it on occasional oldies radio stations. Thankfully, those are also easily avoided.

But every night all the men would come around,
And lay their money down.

I adore Cher, and she just seems to keep getting better with age. With enough plastic surgery and hair dye, I am convinced she will live forever. I love that her twitter feed reveals that she just doesn't give a fuck about people she disagrees with. She's feisty and snarky and slaps down detractors. It's great.

when my kid was just little he mentioned a few times "the mean lady with the blue hair" that he was having bad dreams about. next time we went to seattle center he insisted we walk around to key arena another way because he didn't want to see "the mean lady with the blue hair" - turns out he was having nightmares from that poster of cher that used to hang there on the mercer street side!

What do you think all those diamonds mean? Is she supposed to be rich or something? In your fantasy you picture yourself leaning in to give her a little friendly kiss on the cheek only to find yourself blocked by a 5-million-dollar wall of ice? Or given that she's actually 100 years old, this photo illusion of unnatural youth cost about that much to produce?