Happy Birthday!

[yendi]

To fornorald!

Today's busy. Why do folks schedule meetings on April 1? It's pointless.

But in honor of this great holiday, I suggest reading some literature.

Forget the McSweeny's genre issue. Haypenny #10 is 'Courageous Dolphin Stories," edited by Salmon Rushdie and Jonathan Franzen (with art by Lisa Frank). Tom Clancy's "Smack my Bitch Up," and Frank McCourt's "I Should Have Just Killed You When I had the Chance."

Truly the best stuff either of them has written.

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[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Tom Clancy wrote something called "Smack My Bitch Up"?

Insurance salesman, middle aged, Middle America, Noble Male, WHITE, Tom Clancy?

Oh, I must see this.

Un

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Boy that was good Clancy.

Nice to see that April started off well for him.

Heh.

Un

[fornorald.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the birthday wishes!

Happy being back, you!

[bheansidhe.livejournal.com]

I was listening to something today that you'd really enjoy, I think, because you too are a Moxy Fruvous fan :). There's a band called Davinci's Notebook (http://www.davincisnotebook.com/default.htm) - I'm ordering one of their CDs and you're welcome to borrow & copy it.

The funniest song on this album is a send-up of the typical N'Sync-style boy-band romantic ballad, called "The Title of the Song." The band listened to hundreds (or maybe it just seemed like hundreds) of boy-band hits, deconstructed their common elements, and reconstructed their parody song in beautiful four-part harmony that sounds like an actual Hit Song. Go here and listen to a clip. (http://www.davincisnotebook.com/sounds/Title.mp3)

Sorry I haven't seen you yet - I've been very busy. But HUGS anyway.