In an odd sort of way.1 In a way that compels a friend to get caught up on my website, read about the BITWRATHPLOOB, read about my under-construction bookshelves, happen to turn on the radio to hear that he still has enough time to go to the DC Big Flea Market, and to find and [...]
The 2007 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest results have been announced.
Since DarkoV has gone and acquired a copy of the book, I thought I should put more effort into finding those sentences that I mentioned had made me laugh out loud. No such luck, of course, but I did find this, which I greatly admire: “In Fisher’s mind the country of Ireland was not so [...]
I didn’t mean to watch it but once I was a few minutes into it, I couldn’t stop watching it. The clichés just came at me like artillery fire and I was mesmerized. In no particular order, I was treated to the following: The saucy maid who is a detective at heart and also a [...]
While I am tolerant of a lot of things (no, really), I am completely intolerant of public obliviousness. I encountered a walloping dose of it this morning as, nearly in vain, I tried to order breakfast and some iced tea. For whatever reason, I ended up behind a man so mind-numbingly oblivious that I had [...]
Via The Onion print edition: “CANCER (June 22 – July 22) A rampaging mob of torch-wielding villagers will gather at your door this week after learning what a monster you are on the inside.” Yes. I’ve been expecting this.
Remember these? They’re still there, both large and small ones. Well, most of them are.