UPDATE: It’s all a cruel hoax by a creative writing student in London. But he did manage to fool a bunch of Swartzwelder’s former co-workers which is pretty damn awesome.
The notoriously reclusive, Ron Swansonesque Simpsons writer John Swartzwelder joined the notoriously narcissistic social microblogging platform known as “Twitter” under the username @SwartzwelderJ.
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