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Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
My mother is standing in front of the bathroom mirror smelling polished and ready; like Jean Nate, Dippity Do and the waxy sweetness of lipstick.

East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Salinas Valley is in Northern California.

The Straw Men by Michael Marshall
Palmerston is not a big town, nor one that can convincingly be said to be at the top of its game.

Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof.

Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
In 1517, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, feeling great pity for the Indians who grew worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines, proposed to Emperor Charles V that Negroes be brought to the isles of the Caribbean, so that they might grow worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines.

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posted Tuesday, April 15, 2003

» The highly anticipated Penis Blog is live.

posted Friday, February 28, 2003

Daypop Word Burst: Oulipo

I'll play along: Oulipo.

Apparently this whole thing started when Jim Flanagan made a connection between a talk given by Sun Microsystems' Guy Steele and a group of French artists (for some reason, the description of the group's founding reminded me of the rules of Fight Club). I'd say that Steele's paper is less artistic wordplay and more a systematic approach to semantics, however. (It's very similar to FORTH, a programming language that relies heavily on defining new words based on previously defined words, creating a pretty compact application that basically folds in on itself.) Neat stuff, though. Writing an entry using only one vowel (With nihilistic insight, I, Chris, will pimp this minxish gimmick) or other similar system of rules seems like a good exercise for creativity.

Oulipo meme success can be verified at Daypop.

posted Wednesday, January 8, 2003

» Memes don't exist. Tell your friends.

posted Thursday, October 31, 2002

Chris Paul Is...

Chris Paul is one of those farmers who migrated south in search of cheaper dairy farm land. Chris Paul is one of the top three point guards in the class of 2003. Chris Paul is thinking about quitting graduate school. Chris Paul is one of our favorites here at the DC improv. Chris Paul is in africa with his wife. Chris Paul is. Well, according to Googlism, anyway. (thanks Caterina).

posted Thursday, June 6, 2002

Smut Park

I ran into Matt and Trey the other day and they were kind enough to create an amazingly accurate South Park character for me:

via Yeah, Totally

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