Not sure if this was a good idea, but I volunteered to host the last Carnival of the Vanities of the year. Instead of asking webloggers to submit links to entries from this week, I'm asking them to submit their best short entries and excerpts from entries from all 2005.
No one seems to be paying attention, and I'm still getting links to long entries from self-described-libertarians named "bulldog." Can the webloggers here please review your favorite entries from the year for me? Imagine the shake-up of an entry of just your William Carlos Williams parodies.
Thanks.
They-ey-ey asked me how I knew
Flatiron whispers blew
Oh-ah-oh-oh-oh, I of course replied
Something in my ears cannot be denied
They-ey-ey said someday you'll find
Car smog makes you blind
Oh-ah-oh-oh-oh, when the Flatiron whispers
You must realize
You must close your eyes
So I chaffed them and I gaily laughed
Don't tell me it's just my iPod
Yet today my hat has flown away
Don't tell me I'm being schizoid
Now institution walls will hide
Truths you can't abide
Oh-ah-oh-oh-oh, so I smile and say
Pass my medication
So Flatiron whispers may die
I just got an email from Mrs DeLay offering me 10% for sending her my account to deposit her family's fortune.
...I mean, when the president can't learn from 9-11, there may as well have been no lesson at all. Why push for any historical perspective?
I think the lesson here is that when you're a baby-making theocracy, you don't have to do better.
...and when the agent asked what the title of the manuscript was, the writer replied, "The Aristocrats!"
Hey, no posts for 15 hours?
As the thread winds down, may I impose on y'all on a related topic? I started pages in May categorizing superheroes in their Jungian/Myers-Briggs temperaments.
A few of the temperaments filled up quickly, like ENFPs and ISTPs. But a few are scarce of superheroes, like INTJs. For those of you who share the interest, could you go take a look and see if you can make suggestions? Thanks.
http://www.chickensoup4thedamned.com/Type/index.html
...I mean, Sergio would give Job a dog, you know?
...& god would take it away.
Sergio would imagine a dog God would leave Job with.
No one's mentioned Berni Wrightson? Job for everyone, on me.
Definitely no one is better for Job than Will Eisner.
...but we know this because A Contract With God was Job's drama with the payoff of Frim Hersh's fate, and to a lesser extent because of the middle story on "Invisible People." Eisner gave us an idea how he would treat the debate between Job and the local religious authorities.
When I reconsider the "conceptual book" aspect of the exercise, I have to change my preference to Sergio first. I want to see how he would adapt the debate and agendas represented.
...I also think Bill Waterson would be a good alternate on Genesis. At least we'll find out what happened to the dinosaurs (assuming it wasn't cigarettes that did them in).
...and sorry to continue retreading on other peoples' territory, but my knowledge of cartoonists dwarfs my knowledge of the Bible -- but I think Arthur Suydam would also be good for Jonah, for the paintings.
...I mean, Sergio would give Job a dog, you know?
Job, Will Eisner* [I mean, who else?]
Eisner first, but Sergio Aragones qualifies, yes?
This is just to say:
I have released
a testicle
that was in
your scrotum
and which
you were probably
saving
for procreation
Forgive me
it was your epididymis
so shrunken
and so cold
"Egad, Holmes!" Watson exclaimed. "You're right again! It's obvious, after your explanation, that this must be... Hitler's missing testicle!!"
"Epididymis, my dear Watson," Holmes replied. "Epididymis."
It looked bad for Hitler's remaining testicle, as the police were investigating no other suspects.
Jim, so when you let us know Patrick has the means to verify Larry's navel, are we talking x-ray vision or some off-airport frisking?
Thanks for catching the language barrier, Madeline.
Sorry, Dan. Declaring your contempt for contempt was confusing to me like a double-negative.
Er, Mike, no. I don't know what the language barrier here is, but my point was...
...originally, your point was:
Yes, I'm saying that abstract expressionism as a response to art is entirely different than "your music sucks" as a response to art.
And, as for the former, you said:
...my patience... is pretty thin.
...from which I concluded:
So from your previous misunderstanding of what I said: you hold contempt in so much higher regard than Pollack that you balked at comparing them?
So tell me about this language barrier to which you refer, Dan.
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