We know your iPhone is the greatest machine ever invented.  Thank you so much for posting about it in fifteen consecutive Twitter messages.  How do you say “unfollow”?

Seriously, Ladybug and I just had a conversation this week where we decided to buy iPhones when our Sprint contract is up in October.  They are nice machines.  But I swear to God, if I become one of those people whose every breath is spent in praise of Apple, I want you to shoot me in the face.

If it’s Friday, I must be feeling snarky!  Watch the hell out, poetry world!

Clearly, the author failed to take into account that most everyone in Philadelphia is paralyzed, watching what New Yorkers are doing - “It’s not every day that a new magazine is launched in Philadelphia, and even rarer still does a literary journal make its debut in the City of Brotherly Love”

You guys were just dying to use that Photoshopped picture, huh? - Poetry Foundation’s new commenting policy on Harriet

Man is “contacted by professional genealogists, librarians, and members of the public from all over the world” and makes amazing discovery: the poet he was researching was also a grocer. A GROCER!  Praise be! - Readers of the BBC Scotland news website have helped solve the mystery of a 19th Century poet

Poetry Everywhere attempts to get Marie Howe’s Hair Everywhere.  Hey, look, Marie Howe has beautiful hair.  I’m not being snarky now.  Marie Howe really does have beautiful hair. - Poetry Everywhere is designed to take a fresh look at poetry

Of course, the best snark of the week comes from the comments on the Harriet comment policy page: “I find I’m more aggravated by self-promotional posts than combative ones (”I wrote about this in my book…,” “Let me direct you to a conversation I had with…,” “Here are some passages written after I met…” — that sort of thing).”  Hells yes, Lydia Olidea!  I believe I wrote about this in my book, Why Some Commenters on Harriet are Douches. I am agreeing with this sentiment for the very first time.

There’s nothing more backwardly snarky in the world than the community that’s sprung up around failwhale.com, and ReadWriteWeb details the history in this post.  I <3 the fail whale!  (If you don’t know what fail whale is, you clearly need to join Twitter.)