Conan O'Brien's Bored, Hilarious Twitter Feed

Like anyone facing sudden unemployment after a lifetime of hard work, Conan O'Brien is following an established set of steps:

1. Go on vacation somewhere frivolous and warm. This is like saying, "Haha, I don't care, I've been meaning to get away," as if getting fired is really a chance to use all those frequent-flier miles. This step is easier if you're very wealthy.
2. Grow a beard. This is like saying, "Haha, I don't care," but with less frisky fun and more sad, creeping defeatism.
3. Start Tweeting. How else will you fill the hours?

Fortunately, Conan has followed all of these steps, and like everything he does, his Twitter feed is delightful, a rare gem of craftsmanship in the darkness of the Twitterdom. Quality over quantity seems to be the guiding force; he's tweeted seven times in the last few weeks.

• This morning I watched Remington Steele while eating Sugar Smacks out of a salad bowl. I was naked. 3:46 PM Feb 25th
• Today I connected all the freckles on my arm with a Sharpie. It spells out RIKSHAZ9LIRK. Clearly I am The Chosen One. 2:54 PM Feb 26th
• This is only my 5th tweet and I’m already exhausted. My God, how does Ashton do it? 3:03 PM Feb 28th

And then this one from last night:

• This is how many people it took to write today's tweet: "Jumbo" shrimp? WTF!!

Followed by the photo above. Isn't it refreshing to read someone famous, tweeting as if he KNOWS that his tweets are in the public domain? That they're jokes, carefully crafted for the specific purpose of having a zillion people read them. Not as if they're little tidbits from his diary that somehow ended up on the world wide webs.

Celebrities of the world, take note: Be more like Coco.