Mr. Hot Intellectual Beefcake is following me

The announcer's "And please, do not blow the vuvuzelas" fell on deaf ears at the World Cup in South Africa (final between the Netherlands and Spain tomorrow), where the vuvuzela, local instrument of choice, made a clamorous — up to 127 decibels, louder than the sound of a passing train — debut upon the world stage. The event is a big hit on Twitter, where our New Jersey Twitter and blogfriend Cubachi is first among equals for enthusiasm and play-by-play commentary, and entrepreneurs are using Twitter in creative ways to reach new customers (see below). Listen to the "mess and unnecessary noise" here.

Nick Gillespie's following us on twitter! Here's the story:

1. Checking out the Reason.tv Editor in Chief's latest blogpost,* "If They Say There's a Big Crowd At the Skeptics' Conference, Should You Believe Them?" we cut and pasted a couple of quotable quotes on Twitter about "The Amaz!ng Meeting" itself:

More than a thousand people disbelieving together …

… and Gillespie's glad-handing manning a hospitality table at the event promoting Reason's 2011 Caribbean Cruise:

Catch the fever! Some of the hottest intellectual beefcake ever to sail the Main.

2. Next thing we know, we've got email notification that Mr. Hot Intellectual Beefcake is following us. Kinda fun.

3. He tweets and we retweet a play on the unspeakable Eve Ensler's unreadable "Vagina Monologues" incorporating the eardrum-piercing instrument with the naughty-sounding name that has been enjoying its fifteen nanoseconds of fame — and even a fatwa of its own! — during the World Cup in South Africa:

Vuvuzela Monologues #eveenslerbrandextensions

4. The tweeter-trawling function of a company in France picks up on the word vuvuzela and twitters this little sales pitch:

@SissyWillis o===========<() PWEEEEEEEEP! http://tinyurl.com/2uz95f5

5. Who could resist? We clicked on over there, where they were peddling vuvuzela-themed tee shirts. Not that we would ever buy one, but you can see the dynamics of using Twitter to target potential customers. Hey, Nick Gillespie, forget about hospitality tables at conferences. You oughta be using Twitter to spread the word!

Update: Instalanche! Thank you, Professor Reynolds:

NICK GILLESPIE SHALL HENCEFORTH BE KNOWN AS Mr. Hot Intellectual Beefcake.

Update II: Dan Riehl has the last word on Twitter:

Pish posh, I bet @nickgillespie wears that leather jacket to bed!!! Heh!

*Correction. That blogpost about the skeptics' conference is by Reason columnist and fellow Hot Intellectual Beefcake Tim Cavanaugh, not Nick Gillespie. Our basic premise about the HIB boys stands.

Crossposted at Riehl World View and Liberty Pundits.

Comments

[Ossian Sweet]

Mr. Gillespie should contend with Boxer and Fiorina for the Senate seat up for grabs in California. The Hot Intellectual Beefcake Party is what California needs.
(And in the current anything goes environment, he could win).

[JorgXMcKie]

Richard Dawkins actually said "Thank-G-d-we-finally-have-an-intelligent-president"????

I thought Dawkins was supposed to be a data-driven kind of guy. Now I've lost what remaining respect I had for him.

[Dowlan Smith]

Well... you can't blame an atheist for getting the two big guys confused. G-d...Satan- what's the difference. If you see them both as superstitious myths who logically can have no effect in the material universe, what does it matter which one you attribute an action to?

[Sissy Willis]

I don't see it that way at all. God and Satan metaphors for good and evil in all of us.