Comments on: TBT #94: Nineteenth Century Russian Novelists Discuss Life’s Little Things

By: graphicmatt » Your Official Guide to The Best Things

graphicmatt » Your Official Guide to The Best Things — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 20:07:58 +0000

[...] TBT #94: Nineteenth Century Russian Novelists Discuss Life’s Little Things - “Then he pretends his lengthy beard is actually the underside of a cow, grabbing two fistfuls of hair and ‘milking’ them like udders, inexplicably.” - June 07, 2006 (fiction) [...]

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By: graphicmatt » TBT #95: Countdown to Infinite Crisis

graphicmatt » TBT #95: Countdown to Infinite Crisis — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 02:42:17 +0000

[...] I really don’t like to use this site to brag, and I really hope this update doesn’t come off that way, but I think it important to illustrate just where I am in my life right now and all that brings with it. Only then will you understand the mindset of this man who has written, over the past month, stories about Russian novelists, a made-up religion, a girl with (probably) a clotting disorder, and a timeless superhero who beats a homeless man to death. I actually wanted to use this update to write about Sir Charles Tupper, but found myself distracted by thoughts on my current lot in life and also my various accolades. So instead of a story that was to include some sort of metaphor about the shortest-reigning prime minister, you get to read about me. And accolades. My accolades. The ones given to me. [...]

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:36:15 +0000

This is probably the most important short story written so far this decade, from a historic and philosophical point of view.

Incidentally, though, it is strangely reminiscent of Allen Ginsberg’s “A Supermarket in California,” in which a bunch of homosecksual American authors are inexplicably walking around a supermarket together and eyeing sausages and stock boys and whatnot.

I recommend your story over Ginsberg’s poem.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:16:38 +0000

I often make references to/steal mercilessly from Myst, which I suppose is higher-brow than Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? allusions.

FInnegans Wake is pretty crappy. Once a year for the last few years or so I’ve picked it up and was all, “This will be the year I will read Finnegans Wake” but I always just give up because in the same library visit I get a Tom Clancy book or something and boy, those are entertaining.

I’ll read YOUR story later. I have to go to work and make enough money to pay for my air conditioning. And for the money I impulsively spent on a Nintendo DS Lite and like a million games.

By: Rebecca the Frustraneous

Rebecca the Frustraneous — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:13:39 +0000

Hooray!

I am writing a novel about logical positivists at Cambridge in the 1950s. They are also spies, and it is a romance novel. It is being written for reasons similar to those that you outlined above.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:47:34 +0000

Pfft, History. I made most of that stuff up! Except for Joseph Conrad’s love of rings. I am sure that one is true.

I would cast Richard Schiff as everybody.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:12:46 +0000

History degree much?

I felt proud of myself just knowing vaguely who all of these men were. That has to be embarassing on some level— though I want this to be a film, and I want to cast it. I fucking love a good ensemble cast.