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It Must Be True – The Internet Says So

July 15, 2010 | Comment

All I did was plug in text from this post and this post, and it was definitively confirmed…

I write like
James Joyce

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Hey, Dr. Karl Hufbauer – you and your C+ dismissal of my Freshman Billy Budd paper can kiss my baby tuckoo!

What can I say? I try to keep C&B more on the Dubliners/Portrait of the Artist end of things than going all Ulysses or Finnegan’s Wake up in here. Read the rest of this entry »


Twitterings: Failed Children’s Book Titles

July 29, 2009 | Permalink

This particular Twitter meme has been such fertile ground for me that I’m going to report my own contributions, instead of picking out favorites tweeted by others. Then I’ll open it up to submissions of further silliness in the comments.

  1. Curious George and Daddy’s Browser History
  2. Little House on the Auction Block
  3. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. When Are You Going to Get a Fucking Cell Phone? Read the rest of this entry »

List-mus Test: How Well-Read are You?

February 27, 2009 | 5 comments

Here’s what happened: the seemingly endless succession of Facebook memes had produced one intended to measure how well-read you are in terms of a list of 100 classic works. It read:

The BBC believes most people will have read, on average, only 6 of the 100 books listed here. How do your reading habits stack up? Look at the list and put an ‘x’ or a ‘*’, or otherwise highlight the ones you have read. Tag some people.

Geek that I am, I dutifully went down the list and checked off the 25 of them that I had read, and posted it in a Facebook note with the added comment

This list is a bit Brit-centric. Not that it ignores American classics or anything, but I count no fewer than four Jane Austen books on here and six by Dickens, whereas I see but two Steinbecks, one Fitzgerald, and zero Hemingway. Plus, as Hemingway would point out, only chicks read Jane Austen. ;-) … On the one hand, I’ve read just 1/4 of these classics, which seems kind of pathetic for someone who claims to be educated. With that in mind, I’m still four times more well-read than the BBC gives me credit for being – so suck on that, crumpet monkeys!

That’s where the controversy began. And it didn’t even have to do with my comment about Jane Austen, nor my calling the major press outlet of the land of my forefathers “crumpet monkeys.” Read the rest of this entry »