Since it started, I swore that I wouldn’t tweet…I’m gay enough. It’s a joke I use in my stand-up and it’s more or less true. Plus I’m a loud bitch. You wanna know what I’m doing, open a window and I’m sure you’ll hear me doing it! But as my good friend Shaun Proulx put it, the loud bitch is busy… I know, what crust!!! So I bit the Twitter bullet. I decided to tweet. Well FUCK me. I spent the better part of my day trying to figure out a profile name. How is it that there’s more than one Richard Ryder in the world? The nerve! Of course the irony is if I’d joined up earlier, I’d have the name myself so shut my own face. So I settled on BearComic. I hated it the minute I finished setting up my account. I know, ugh. It’s a stupid name. I’m so bad at this. I should’ve gone with my drag queen name: Wilma Fingerdoo now that I think about it so that people wouldn’t know it’s me tweeting! Anonymity! But then I thought, when have I ever been afraid of telling anyone what I think? And then I went back to the “other” Richard Ryder on Twitter. Who is this asshole? What’s he doing that’s so great? Well… there are 18 to be exact and one of them’s an alien! So that was it! Fuck these bitches! I’m the real Richard Ryder but twitter only allows so many characters to say that! 15 to be exact. All my variations on RichardRyder fell short due to lack of space. There was StandUpComicRic. And then there was ComicRichardRyd and the ill fated RichardRyderhah. Nothing worked! I was doomed to be BearComic for ever. A gay furry blip on the Twitter-scape. It couldn’t be so. I’m the real Richard Ryder! I’m THE Richard Ryder! Wait a minute. The Richard Ryder. Did it fit? TheRichardRyder. Yes it did! Was it available? Yes it was. Suckers! So I was off to my settings page where I changed my name as easily as a Registered Nurse changes the sheets for a coma patient. Sure there were mistakes and someone hit the floor, but who’s to tell, and I digress. The point is I’m on Twitter and tweeting loudly and proudly and you won’t have problems finding me because I’m THE Richard Ryder. Tweet.