September 16, 2004

"Enos" comes up as a clue in NYT crosswords a lot.

The Pete Best Project keeps rolling on, with this week's entry being a fanciful illustrated tale from Brodie Brockie, wondering if music history's most famous also-ran perhaps had siblings who, too, were aflicted with a lifetime of constantly having victory just staying out of reach.

And, yes, about halfway through that sentence I was trying to make it as awkward as possible.

If you fear they've run out, amazon.com still has plenty of copies of Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans : The Best of McSweeney's, Humor Category, the book in which we have a couple of pieces. In print, no less! (Don't listen to Gregory N. Alstad of Vancouver, BC., though. He seems a bit of a crank)

Finally, from the ol' archives: As the kids are now firmly back in school, here is the aptly-titled Sentences Written For The School Vocabulary List By A Student Obsessed With Tacos But Not Very Good At Vocabulary. We are not good at keeping things short around here.

Posted by capnslog at September 16, 2004 09:16 PM