Posh dandy tries matchmaking, wins enemies; beatings loom. Thank goodness for the fish-eating servant!
― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 03:13 (twenty years ago) link
~The Hearing Trumpet, by Leonora Carrington
― Jorge, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 03:21 (twenty years ago) link
― ccccccc, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 04:07 (twenty years ago) link
I just realized this is an anagram of Tyrone Slothrop.
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 04:10 (twenty years ago) link
Disgruntled children misunderstanding their senile parents. Oh yeah, talking turds.
― learned, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 04:48 (twenty years ago) link
Asshole, Come to africa where i can purge cash and make factual mistakes before i drown at some point, i haven't worked this out properly.
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 11:09 (twenty years ago) link
Conspiracy theories are a load of bollocks. Or are they?
― SRH (Skrik), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 13:53 (twenty years ago) link
Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof.
― SRH (Skrik), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 13:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Ike Stephenson (Ike Stephenson), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:17 (twenty years ago) link
Upwardly mobile whore inspires man to get job. Wife leaves, dies; brother dies; kid leaves with whore. Man breaks leg.
― BPG, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:42 (twenty years ago) link
"Are you the detective Paul Auster?" No, but I'll pretend I am. Actually I write detective novels, and now I'm pretending to be a detective! Later I get to meet the real Auster, who isn't a detective at all but the author of this post.
― Paul Auster, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago) link
Little guys go to a lot of trouble to get rid of stolen jewelry.
― BPG, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:56 (twenty years ago) link
Three men infatuated with one beautiful woman. Guy she ends up with is too good for her.
― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:56 (twenty years ago) link
Boy meets girl, boy imprisons girl, girl withers away. Boy meets girl...
― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:59 (twenty years ago) link
Apocalypse Now but with Brahms instead of The Doors.
― BPG, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago) link
"Is the grass greener on the other side? It must be. Oh, it isn't. Time to die."
― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:01 (twenty years ago) link
"Being in World War II was so bad that now I hallucinate about aliens and time travel."
― BPG, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago) link
Rural tart gets mixed up with local bounder. Dad is constantly pissed. Too upbeat? OK, I'll add a dead baby and a murder. Stonehenge. Hanging.
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:08 (twenty years ago) link
Ok - I'm cheating. That's every John Grisham novel.
― BabyBuddha (BabyBuddha), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago) link
― SRH (Skrik), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Cupie (Cupie), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Cupie (Cupie), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link
― chillythekid, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 17:33 (twenty years ago) link
Boy loves girl. "I'm too original for you," sniffs girl. Girl proves originality by marrying gold-digging asshole. First boy stalks girl.
― Phil Christman, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago) link
"You're an idiot," says Rogozhin. "Yes," smiles Myshkin. "I'm going to mistreat a woman now," says Rogozhin. "Unhand her, you beast!" says Myshkin. His brain fries.
I also had a prof in college who liked to summarize all of Soviet Social Realism this way:Boy meets tractor. Boy and tractor fall in love. Boy and tractor live happily ever after.
― Phil Christman, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago) link
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs
WHOOP! Benzedrine's great Romilar's cheaper! NGK ZRRRRZSSST Noise is primal actfact of funky/tragic pullulation (cf. Velvets, 1965) ZAP! OK, what was I talking about?
― Phil Christman, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Cali, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Art Linkletter, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:23 (twenty years ago) link
I think therefore I am...but that's it, baby.
― Not That Chuck, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago) link
A frenzy of drugs and sex, somewhat like a frat house, only in the near future.
― loveisreal, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:34 (twenty years ago) link
She's a man, baby! Or is s/he?
― tl (tom), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:42 (twenty years ago) link
Being young is better than being old. Marriage sucks. Men are assholes.
― Chris Jay, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:45 (twenty years ago) link
Dostoyevsky "Notes From Underground"
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago) link
The Magus by John Fowles (9/10ths of this, Foreigner)
― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 21:49 (twenty years ago) link
Batleby the Scrivener
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 22:30 (twenty years ago) link
Get there before the hair.
― el kabong, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:05 (twenty years ago) link
If there's grass on the field, then play ball.
― el kabong, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:06 (twenty years ago) link
What an asshole. No, seriously, what an asshole!
― el kabong, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:07 (twenty years ago) link
-Life of Pi
― Robomonkey (patronus), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:10 (twenty years ago) link
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
― DanielTheHead, Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Kathryn L., Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:34 (twenty years ago) link
If you're having girl problems I feel bad for you son; I got ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain't one.
― B. Michael Payne (This Isnt That), Thursday, 26 February 2004 04:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Sym (shmuel), Thursday, 26 February 2004 11:03 (twenty years ago) link
visit grey tuesday to download the grey album before emi blocks it for good. jay-z's black album mixed with the beatle's white album. v good.
back to the books...
― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Thursday, 26 February 2004 13:00 (twenty years ago) link
conchis shoots 85 greeks. it drives him insane. he kidnaps nicholas and fucks with his head using greek culture. nazis and penises.
― Jackson Mississippi, Thursday, 26 February 2004 17:40 (twenty years ago) link
whitey sucks. DESTRUCTION!
CATCH-22by Joseph Heller
war totally sucks. i don't want to die. i want sex. sex is good. everyone is crazy. crazy is funny. funny is tragic. JUMP!
― Jackson Mississippi, Thursday, 26 February 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago) link
If only they had a hearse.
― gir1 detective, Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago) link
― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:14 (twenty years ago) link
Huge guy is bad, then becomes really good. Rescues a bunch of people. They all abandon him, but he saves more people anyway, then dies.
― Lara Murphy (MissLara), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:42 (twenty years ago) link