Eleven great Tweets from @NightValeRadio

Because I'm always late to discover hip new things, I only recently began listening to the Welcome to Night Vale podcasts. I'm up to about #18 and my daily commutes between York and Lancaster and now filled with glowing clouds, levitating cats, dangerous wheat by-products and the worst-run daily newspaper ever. (Thank heavens I don't work for Leann Hart.)

Speaking of by-products, another one of the joys of Night Vale is the Twitter account run by the podcast's creative team.

Here are some of my favorite Tweets from the past year.

Driving Safety Tips: Do not turn on your high-beams in fog. You do not want to see what is actually in this fog.

— Night Vale podcast (@NightValeRadio) July 22, 2014

Feeling lonely? You’re not. Look around you. Actually don’t. Best you don’t see them. Close your eyes and be still.

— Night Vale podcast (@NightValeRadio) July 19, 2014

If at first you don’t succeed, then you will have alerted them to your presence. It is important that you at first succeed.

— Night Vale podcast (@NightValeRadio) June 6, 2014

There are no dumb questions, only forbidden ones. Your file has been marked for review.

— Night Vale podcast (@NightValeRadio) May 12, 2014

BIRD FACTS: Birds can see into the future. But they can neither comprehend nor articulate what they learn.

— Night Vale podcast (@NightValeRadio) January 27, 2014

Nobody knows the full lyrics to Auld Lang Syne, because the government refuses to declassify the entire song.

— Night Vale podcast (@NightValeRadio) December 31, 2013

When you wish upon a star, it's actually a satellite, and your wish has been recorded & cataloged. An agent is now assigned to your case.

— Night Vale podcast (@NightValeRadio) November 25, 2013

You sing a Beatles song and everyone around you spontaneously starts singing along. You thought you were home alone. Good luck.

— Night Vale podcast (@NightValeRadio) November 14, 2013

Siren means brush fires. Loud beeping means unidentified aircraft. Mournful flutes from the desert are meaningless and perfectly safe.

— Night Vale podcast (@NightValeRadio) August 5, 2013

In the old days someone delivered ice/milk/newspapers door to door. Now he just stands on the curb staring & snarling threateningly.

— Night Vale podcast (@NightValeRadio) August 5, 2013

And this last one is neither funny nor morbid nor humorously morbid.
It's unexpectedly positive and inspiring, and I love it.

Just cheer up. Just find meaning. Just understand yourself and create a framework within yourself in which that understanding is productive.

— Night Vale podcast (@NightValeRadio) April 23, 2014