Re: The automatic president of me

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Cap'n Crunch's first name is Jedediah?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 09-10-07 10:56 PM
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See also:

http://lisarea.wordpress.com/2007/01/26/marketing-idea/

I like her better than McSweeneys. I always had a weird background suspicion that articles there were just written to curry favor with the Dave Eggers media juggernaut.


Posted by: marcus | Link to this comment | 09-10-07 10:58 PM
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So it would seem, teo.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-10-07 10:59 PM
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The anti-ridiculous names law in the link clearly needs stricter enforcement, as there exits a football player by the name of Credence Clearwater Couto.


Posted by: foolishmortal | Link to this comment | 09-10-07 11:01 PM
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Interesting.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 09-10-07 11:01 PM
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I always had a weird background suspicion that articles there were just written to curry favor with the Dave Eggers media juggernaut.

I have a hard time imagining this not being true.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 09-10-07 11:02 PM
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Is Eggers the one who wrote Heart-Working Stag of Brokering Genius or the one who wrote Girl with the Curious Hair (and the other one, with Frequent & Vigorous)?


Posted by: foolishmortal | Link to this comment | 09-10-07 11:06 PM
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The former.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-10-07 11:07 PM
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I like her better than McSweeneys. I always had a weird background suspicion that articles there were just written to curry favor with the Dave Eggers media juggernaut.

People write "articles," rather than short stories, in McSweeney's now?


Posted by: strasmangelo jones | Link to this comment | 09-11-07 4:54 AM
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Somehow, this one doesn't seem to be in the archive. Which is sad.


Posted by: Tom Scudder | Link to this comment | 09-11-07 7:38 AM
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w-lfs-n, would you happen to know a good online "here are those stupid copyediting symbols" resource?


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 09-11-07 9:11 AM
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Nope! Whenever I want to learn them, I just google "copyediting symbols" or the like.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-11-07 10:21 AM
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Never hurts to ask.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 09-11-07 10:34 AM
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No, it doesn't. And I'm glad that you trust me enough to come to me with these questions.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-11-07 10:39 AM
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