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January 25, 2004Old writing and good books...
I have to put together a rough CV for one of my graduate classes, so I'm mucking out the proverbial stables, digging around for the publication dates of old online writing I've done. I rediscovered these three pieces on the now-defunct humor section of studentplanet.com, which featured spoof news articles a la The Onion.
Take a gander at these gems of mine from early 2000:
"McCain to Embark on 'Introduce My Shoe to a Few Asses' Tour of Vietnam"
"Millerlite to Become 111th Element of the Periodic Table"
"NE3s Compress New England States to One Gigabyte"
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In other news, I've had pretty good luck with my pleasure reading lately. I finally checked out a copy of Aimee Bender's Girl in a Flammable Skirt a few days ago, absolutely loved it, and polished it off in a single sitting. I was feeling sort of low about my fiction last quarter, figure there was absolutely no readership for my style anymore. My workshop professor, Michael Jayme, seemed confident that I'd feel better after a Bender bender--and I do! I tore through The Princess Bride yesterday and the day before at a similarly frenzied pace, having been told that it was even better than the film, but never quite believing it. Happily, they were right.
Posted by patrick at January 25, 2004 07:56 PM
CommentsUm...dude...red alert. NOT grad school submission material. Not PC. Not "safe" enough. Or in other words, "DANGER WILL ROBSINSON. DANGER."
You can't show a sense of humour around academic types. They don't have one, and they'll bite your nuts off if you pretend you do. Er um, deminstrate that you do. It will scare them, that its the last thing you want to do.
Posted by: Me at January 27, 2004 11:25 PM
No...these aren't pieces I plan on including on the official CV. They're just fun little blurbs about which I had forgotten.
Posted by: Patrick at January 28, 2004 08:46 AM
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