Expanding My Horizons

I'd like to start by saying that I'm actually a little funny sometimes, and one day soon, some of these will start making people chuckle.  But first, if I'm actually going to blog more than once, I've got to get some stuff out of my system.  This one is meant to be a cathartic exploration into how I've gotten to the point where I'm actually trying to write a blog.  The answer of course is Twitter, Red Eye w. Greg Gutfeld, and Andrew Breitbart, but that's a simplification.

I was in private security for a long time.  You listen to a lot of radio in private security, and if you're politically savvy you listen to a lot of political talk radio.  I detested Bill Clinton.  I had been an Air Force Security Police Law Enforcement Specialist while Ronald Reagan was President and Commander-In-Chief, and Bill Clinton was no Reagan.

I have participated occasionally in City Council meetings, I have gone to meeting at the Nebraska Republican Party Headquarters, and I've talked to many political figures in Nebraska politics including the one guy that humiliates me more every day for ever voting for him- Chuck Hagel.  

When the internet became common and I had regular access, I had a MySpace page, followed by a Facebook page.  Facebook was a great way to connect with family, and later find people from High School and even the Air Force.  After my father went into a coma, my half-sister (yes, the Progressive) came to NE and we all finally became family like we never had before.  

My dad got better and had another year and a half with us, but my sister was finally family, and Facebook played a part of that since she lives in Kansas.  But she's very political in what I believe to be the wrong direction and she uses Facebook for it, so I don't see her posts but we message each other and I look at her page when I want.  She knows I do this.  It keeps my blood pressure at good levels.  The point of this is that I don't want to do that to other family members, so I seriously limit political posts and memes.  When I haven't, it sometimes has gone bad, like the time I said some out of line and nasty things to my brother in law.

Enter Twitter.  No one I knew had Twitter, but lots of public figures I liked did.  So I tried it.  I was mostly an observer, but would occasionally do a bad joke to a professional comedian.  Then, from watching Red Eye, I discovered Andrew Breitbart and was immediately inspired.  He kind of has that effect on people.  I started following him, and all he would do all evening long is Retweet his haters.  It was awesome.  

I followed just about everyone connected to Red Eye and one night I saw Tweets where Andy Levy hadn't shown up at the bar yet where he was meeting Greg Gutfeld, Bill Schulz, and Andrew Breitbart.  Greg then sent out a Tweet that while they were waiting for Andy, Ann Coulter had walked by the bar and now they had her in there with them drinking.  Suddenly, I realized that if I were in New York and a little more involved, this would be my kind of circle of friends.  Now I was inspired.  More than anyone else I wanted to meet Breitbart.  If the opportunity ever arose, I would do just that, even if I had to drive to another town nearby to hear him speak.  His CPAC speech REALLY inspired me.

Crappy Birthday To Me.  My 46th birthday.  I was surfing the web and saw the horrific news.  Andrew Breitbart had died.  I posted it on FB and asked the haters to please hold their nastiness because this guy was my hero.  I had felt like an old friend died.  The haters behaved, but I started embracing Twitter more.  I started following people less for celebrity and more for thought.  Entertainers were out, politicians, bloggers, and conservative thinkers were in.  On a side note, my dad passed away 26 days later so March 2012 really really sucked.

Watching Greg Gutfeld's Twitter (@greggutfeld) as well as Andy Levy's (@andylevy), I discovered the art of Live Tweeting.  Watching Andy Tweet about Chris Brown during the Grammy Awards was hilarious.   I dabbled during awards shows, and finally started watching my Twitter feed during Red Eye itself.  I was once again inspired.  Once I discovered how to use the connect button and learned proper Twitter protocol, it was on.

For the last couple of months I have been racing to log onto my laptop the second I get home around 2am in order to Tweet right from the first story.  I have a new circle of friends, my social media standings have gone up, and I'm loving every minute of it.  But we NEVER stay on topic.  In the last 2 weeks, there was a conversation that started with me talking about eating candy corn during the show, and that conversation was still going on 48 hours later.  Also during that time frame, in the last few days in fact, Andy briefly mentioned the hard rock band Triumph.  Their only relationship to the story was that they're a Canadian Band.  I Tweeted that I had seen them in concert with Molly Hatchet in 1985, and the conversation about rock and roll and our favorite concerts went on for the duration of the show.

That brings us to the last few days.  I had something I wanted to say about Obamacare, and I found a hosting site and just started writing.  Response has been good and I thank everyone who's been looking.  I'll try to be funny next time.  It's what Breitbart would have wanted.  I have to believe that.

-I am Adam Johnson.  I'm a Nebraskan, a conservative, and my biggest hobby these days is to live tweet Red Eye W. Greg Gutfeld.  My Facebook is generally for friends family and games, but if you like this, follow my political based Twitter @awj9009.