Jerry Brown lives, on Twitter!

Back when I first started blogging in 2005, way before “social media” took hold, I was really pumped about all the possibilities that blogging posed for connecting with unlikely people, such as … Jerry Brown! My very favorite flaky politician! A guy I actually voted cv_pic_74 for in a presidential primary once, if only to reinforce my own cred as an eccentric! The guy from whom I learned the term “buzzword”… and so forth.

But then he let me down. You can still go see Jerry’s blog, but you’ll note that he hasn’t posted since Oct. 8, 2005, which is of course pathetic. I had expected better from him. I felt like if anybody would grasp the potential of the blogosphere and make it wail, it would be Jerry Brown, whom I had always seen as a visionary on the level of … I don’t know… Stewart Brand, or Ken Kesey, or something. I mean, this guy dated Linda Ronstadt back when she was really hot, and he was governor. This guy had it going on.

So it is that I am pleased to see that now that he’s running for governor again, Jerry is on Twitter, and Tweeting regularly. Of course, it’s probably some pimply-faced kid on his staff doing it, but at least it’s in his name, which makes me feel like Governor Moonbeam is back on his horse again, and that just makes the world seem more like a place with wild and wonderful possibilities, as it was when I was young…