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Kevin DuBrow posted:http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/nora-joyce-letters.php You had me at my lovely little farting darling.
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The Joyce article is just magnificent. Bravo.
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Can these be organized into a series, so that when I'm looking for them years from now they're easier to find?
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Mar 1, 2013 23:09
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Yeah, I have been intending to do that. I'll get it done over the weekend. I'm open to suggestions for the series title.
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Mar 1, 2013 23:50
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Renowned Writers Rendering Ridiculous Ramblings
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Mar 2, 2013 05:10
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I'm loving this stuff, and all your other work, Zack. Suggested title: The Modern Classics Series Or some variation: Modern Classics, Modern Literary Classics, Zack Parsons's Modern Classics, etc. I can't think of anything else that better conveys timely + literary + highbrow, the "highbrow" being ironic of course.
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Mar 3, 2013 00:19
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I was hoping you'd do Ballard, and I wasn't disappointed. I had to look up some of the medical words, so it was also educational.
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Mar 15, 2013 14:27
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http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/hubbard-american-apparel.php To be honest, I haven't even read the article yet, but I'm already laughing at the Phillip Seymour Hoffman stand-in for L. Ron. Great way to insulate yourself from Scientology litigation.
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Mar 30, 2013 02:06
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I was just thinking about how funny an L. Ron entry would be not even a week ago. Nice job, ya nailed it!
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Mar 30, 2013 02:35
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I forgot that this subforum was a thing at all, but basically, these are some of the funniest goddamn articles I have ever read on the front page.
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Mar 30, 2013 07:18
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These are great! I totally want to see Carl Sagan done at some point.
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Mar 30, 2013 17:22
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Orson Scott Card is Paid to Introduce the New Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Flavors I'm both hungry for and repulsed by the idea of ice cream now.
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May 28, 2013 08:03
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That OSC article was the best. It's really funny to see the juxtaposition of OSC's crazy homophobia next to his creepy obsession with naked little boys fighting.
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May 28, 2013 21:50
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Simian_Prime posted:That OSC article was the best. It's really funny to see the juxtaposition of OSC's crazy homophobia next to his creepy obsession with naked little boys fighting. Has anyone ever pointed this out to him before, and if so, has he ever given any sort of rationale/explanation for it? I've always thought it was pretty drat strange.
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May 28, 2013 23:10
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Is that what those books are about? I keep hearing idiots yelling about how great they are, and how radical the movie(s) are going to be. I didn't care about it at all, but if it's just a crazy, homophobic, conservative Hunger games, I guess I am outraged instead?
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May 29, 2013 02:01
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There's not really homophobia in the original run of the books. But he wrote a sequel series where...well, I actually don't remember if there's any homophobia in it, but it includes stuff like "child soldiers fight to recover fertilized embryos because it would be murder if they were lost" and "people training to fight an alien invasion on a space station take time out of their schedule to bravely oppose the War on Christmas and premarital sex". His homophobia is in other works, mainly this gem and his real-life rantings. But yeah, you can safely skip any of his stuff. The guy is hugely overrated. Although apparently he did do some of the writing for the first Monkey Island game so I'll give him that.
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elpintogrande posted:Yeah, I have been intending to do that. I'll get it done over the weekend. As someone who's totally gay for everything William Gibson has ever written, I found your imitation of him really hilarious. I remember several years back you did another imitation of his writing where you kept mentioning "the Chrysler Town & Country" and it was also hilarious. The Cormac McCarthy one in particular was unbearably funny. edit: "It will grip you like a stabbed man's hands on the throat of his murderer." Prettz fucked around with this message at 06:05 on May 31, 2013 |
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Just got around to reading the OSC introudcing Ben & Jerry's article, and I liked it. I really loved the Ender's Game series (at least the first three books of it) back when I was in high school, how did he go from that to the guy who wrote "Hidden Empire?" Maybe that was him all along and I just didn't understand it at the time.
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Great installment. http://www.somethingawful.com/news/retro-road-candy/1/ I lost it at: 'What do the black ones taste like? Being dead, I said. So that's what mom tastes?'
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Is this really what McCarthy's writing is like? Because this grim n' gritty prose starts out shocking but quickly gets tiresome. I can't even imagine reading through a single book of his now.
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Jul 15, 2013 20:36
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The Road is like this. Not all of his books. The first article he wrote was more like Blood Meridian.
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Jul 15, 2013 21:15
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Oh man, this was incredible. I found myself reading one paragraph and then wanting to save the rest for later so I could ration it out over the week when I needed a pick-me-up.
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Jul 19, 2013 03:46
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http://www.somethingawful.com/news/cormac-mccarthy-workshop/ I would read Cormac McCarthy's Shrek.
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Hopefully Something Awful can collectively mock Cormac McCarthy until he sends us hate mail because Cormac McCarthy's hate mail is something I would love to read.
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elpintogrande posted:The Road is like this. Not all of his books. The first article he wrote was more like Blood Meridian. Also, "Who is Sonic the Hedgehog?" made me burst out laughing.
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elpintogrande posted:The Road is like this. Not all of his books. The first article he wrote was more like Blood Meridian. I think a lot of people have a false perception of McCarthy because of The Road. All the Pretty Horses and Blood Meridian has some of the most amazing language and imagery, but those were not as widely read recently.
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http://www.somethingawful.com/news/phone-cosmos-sucks/ While reading this, I actually had to slow down because I was so immersed in imagining it being read in Sagan's slow, melodious Cosmos narration.
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http://www.somethingawful.com/news/burroughs-junkie-chilis/ I was wondering when Burroughs would appear. I was mildly impressed until I got to "And me, in my palace, sipping Chili's ritas, Ed Hardy shirts and porno penis pumps. Beats by Dre and gold collars for my pugs." It got so much better from there.
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Aug 19, 2013 16:55
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The Burroughs entry was hypnotically weird and entertaining. It was great.
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Having been unfortunate enough to read Naked Lunch without much introduction fifteen years ago, this made me laugh my rear end off.
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Aug 19, 2013 22:34
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The Burroughs one is my favorite yet.
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This series is fantastic, and the impressions are spot on. Very well done, I'm eagerly awaiting for new installments.
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Oct 3, 2013 19:00
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I have one planned for tomorrow but I might delay it because of what happened today.
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Oct 3, 2013 23:04
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Delayed in favor of something more topical, or delayed because it's topical?
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Oct 4, 2013 02:21
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 These articles are always a treat. Any chance of doing an Iain M. Banks one at some point?
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Oct 4, 2013 04:24
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Excellent. I've never read any of Orson Scott Card's non sci-fi stuff but I basically just imagine it as Tom Clancy with the ratio of liberal bashing and gun wanking reversed.
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Oct 5, 2013 14:12
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The Thomas Friedman article was great, besides at no point did his taxi driver offer him a counter-intuitive opinion/local saying that made him understand the global economy.
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http://www.somethingawful.com/news/thomas-friedman-metaphors/3/ So, is the author proper this disjointed and quick to mix metaphors as Zack Parson's hilarious article portrays him?
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