“The Brains behind the Bulk”: A Review of Smashed: The Life and Tweets of Drunk Hulk
by Christian A. Dumais (2014, ISBN: 978-1500538354; available at Amazon.com) I have known the man behind the Drunk Hulk Twitter phenomenon, Christian Dumais, since 2003, when the art and literary website he co-ran, Legion Studios, first began the monthly publication of the strange rants and politico-religious poke-prods of my own alter-ego, Planner Forthright. I reviewed a collection of euphictional anthology, Cover Stories , that he co-edited, and have followed his journey to Poland and into marriage and parenthood and into stand-up humor and his continuing productivity as a writer (ironically, through another social media mechanism, Facebook). I have to admit—although I knew of the Drunk Hulk Twitter account, and followed it—I am Luddite at heart who won’t use a Smart Phone and rarely uses Twitter, doesn’t see its purpose, and follows and is followed in the mid-100s. Nevertheless, the Drunk Hulk phenomenon of the last 5 years (191,000 followers as of this writing) has bee...