Bob Dylan is on X. Is he messing with us?
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. “Happy Birthday Mary Jo! See you in Frankfort." The tweet by Bob Dylan landed on unsuspecting fans like a mysterious rune. People across the internet wanted to know: Was it actually him? Who was Mary Jo? And what made America’s most revered poet-lyricist, the elusive legend who turned pop music into literature and gave voice to a generation, suddenly embrace the social-media platform previously known as Twitter? The answers, Dylan obsessives say, are blowing in the wind.
Over the past month, Dylan has written six non sequitur posts that run the gamut from comedy (“I didn’t know there were so many book publishers in the world") and pathos (“I just found out the other day that Bob Newhart was gone") to restaurant reviews (“Last time in New Orleans we ate at Dooky Chase’s Restaurant on the corner of North Miro and Orleans. If you’re ever there I highly recommend it"). One time he even replied: After a commenter recommended a restaurant in Prague to him, the Nobel Prize in literature winner posted that he’d try it next time.
It all has Dylan’s most die-hard fans glued to their screens, trying to decode the missives and watching for the next one. Among the Dylanologists tangled up in clues is Britt Eisnor, a 27-year-old researcher in Massachusetts. Like many fans, she initially wondered if Dylan’s inaugural “Mary Jo" tweet on Sept.
25 was a text message gone awry. Why was Dylan wishing Mary Jo a happy birthday on a platform he’d never been on before? While there was speculation Dylan had misspelled the German city of Frankfurt, Eisnor had her doubts. Employing her professional-grade googling skills, she deduced that Dylan was referring to Frankfort, the state capital of Kentucky, which
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