Sunday Funnies

This post is apropos only of a good set of laughs to the quasi-literary minded. Or the quasi-minded. In either case, I had posted some of the "winners" of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest in another thread as a kind of humorous commentary.

I recently found this account of winning the contest written by a prior winner, which is itself hilarious, and thought readers here would enjoy it. http://pr.caltech.edu/periodicals/CaltechNews/articles/v39/paper-hack.html [1] Anyone who writes will especially enjoy this. David, fellow writer, I hope you get a good laugh from this one. By the way, it's titled "Paper-Hack Writer" which should already tell you something!

We often need to lighten up. Although that reminds me of a book review by the critic Dorothy Parker who said, "This book should not be taken lightly. It should be thrown with great force."

CAPi [2]i [2] for Cpni [3]i [3] 11/04. Dx: 25yrs CFSi [4]i [4] & FMSi [5]i [5]. Currently: 150mg BID Roxithromycin, Doxycycline 100mg BID, Tinii [6]i [6] 1000mg/day pulses; Vit D2000 units, T4 & T3

Excellent,

Submitted by D W on Sun, 2008-03-23 12:25.

Excellent, Jim-

Quasi-minded! That's funny. Ersatz intelligence. . .

Perhaps I qualify for consideration, with a collection of short stories (which can also be read as a novel), the first line of which runs:

There was no doubt that she is an intelligent woman, he thought, and her mind could have been so original.

Now, before I'm assaulted with rolling-pins etc, I must point out that this woman turns out very creditably in the story. If anyone wishes to check, a pdf can be obtained via this link: http://www.davidwheldon.co.uk/highrise-08.03.23.pdf

[9]Have a good Easter,

David

D W - [Myalgia and hypertensioni [10] (typically 155/95.) Began (2003) taking doxycycline and macrolide and later adding metronidazolei [11]. No medication now; just supplementsi [12] and IR sauna. Morning BP typically 110/75]

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D W - [Myalgia and hypertensioni [10] (typically 155/95.) Began (2003) taking doxycycline and macrolide and later adding metronidazolei [11]. No medication now; just supplementsi [12] and IR sauna. Morning BP typically 105/75]

Jim, that is a fine quote [13]

Submitted by Sarah on Sun, 2008-03-23 14:25.

Jim, that is a fine quote by Dorothy Parker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Parker [14] even if she wasn't talking about "Paper-Hack Writer," written by a man trying to emulate Nabokov and Tolstoy(??)

DW, less of the rolling pins, yours iss a jolly good short story!............Sarah

An Itinerary in Light and Shadow...........Completed Stratton/Wheldon regime for aggressive secondary progressive MSi [15] in June 2007, after four years, three of which intermittent. Still slowly improving and no exacerbation since starting. EDSSi [16] was 7, now 2, less on a good day.

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Completed Stratton/Wheldon regime for aggressive secondary progressive MSi [15] in June 2007, after nearly four years, three of which intermittent. Still slowly improving and no exacerbation since starting. EDSSi [16] was 7, now 2, less on a good day.

So says The Chatelaine from

Submitted by Minai on Sun, 2008-03-23 16:39.

So says The Chatelaine from her war desk...I will have to commence reading it

--Minai

RRMSi [17], diagnosed 2/04. NACi [18] 4/06. Started Wheldon/Stratton regime 8/30/06. Doxycycline, 8/06, Azith, 10/06. Switched to Roxithromycin 11/06. Psuedo relapse/die-off with hospitalization 1/07. Gad-enhanced MRI of brain and spine shows NO NEW DISEASE ACTIVITY Restarted CAPi [2] with NAC and Doxy 2/07. LDNi [19] 4/07. Stopped NAC, started Roxi, again 5/07. Now on full doses of Doxy and Roxi. NAC, again, 7/07. 1st Tinidazole Pulse, 8/11/07. USA