My Kanye moment

Move over, Taylor Swift. I’ve now had my own encounter with Kanye West.

It began innocently enough. I clicked over to Ron Bronson’s website to see what my blogging buddy was up to. When I read the headline of his latest post — The Beatles just weren’t that good — I was intrigued, so I read on.

Ron’s post wasn’t so much a dis of the Fab Four as it was a poke at the “people [who] shake their fists at me for my deliberate avoidance of most music made before I was born.” Still, I couldn’t pass up a chance to school the young man about why the Beatles matter, so I posted the following comment:

<em>My comment about the Beatles on Ron Bronson's blog</em>
My comment about the Beatles on Ron Bronson's blog

Turns out I was the one who got schooled. By someone named Kanye, no less:

<em>The response to my comment from "Kanye"</em>
The response to my comment from Kanye

Yeah, I know the Kanye jokes are getting old. But this one made me laugh. I can only imagine who the prankster was. Anyone care to come clean?

They’ve got a name for people like us…

Or several names, for now.

The folks at Marketing Addictionary are asking the mob to come up with a name for “A person, age 35 or older, who attempts to keep up with ‘the kids’… even if their job does not call for it.”

Some of the suggestions so far:

hipnot
Elite-Twit
Gen-Twex
geriatwix
techosaurus
e-keeper

Submit your ideas for a chance at ephemeral Internet infamy.

Thanks to @MarketingProfs for the tipoff tweet.