Evil Editor's Blog, page 322

Therapy Session 1

Dr. Rosenberg sat in her camel Gio Ponti armchair, legs crossed, pencil skirt showing her svelte calves. "Thank you for coming. I see… referred here due to a conflict of interest?" The patient stared her down, tapped his foot. He must have been itching to start the session. "So, tell me about your mother."

The patient's brow furrowed. "That is a flat start. Like beginning a novel with, 'once upon a time.' How trite."

"Interesting…" She pressed her lips together and scribbled in her notebook. Av...

Caption Match

Sometimes a cartoon doesn't inspire any captions that measure up to the high standards that have been set here. I used to just delete them, but as an experiment I've saved the most recent ones. Your job is to match each cartoon with the captions that were submitted for it. Note that there are more captions than cartoons. Some cartoons have more than one caption.

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a. Not quite what I had in mind when Grisham invited me to his premiere party.



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b. The difference between us? I can afford to do th...

Book Chat 27

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Face-Lift 779

Guess the plot

God's Play

1. Hermes wants a new theater production in his honor--there hasn't been one for over 1,000 years. He bribes a muse to inspire rap artist Suu-Yuu with Greek fantasies and hires on as a roadie. Odin, Thor, and Zeus want in on the action. Storms ensue.

2. God's greatest desire was to write a play. He's created his perfect cast of characters coupled with enough strife to last a few millennia. Dress rehearsal was a disaster, but opening night ends with nary a hitch. The rea...

Cartoon 657

Caption: Anon.

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New Beginning 756

What was I, Danielle Crupp, doing on a flight to Tokyo? Especially with a name like Crupp?

My name had always been unremarkable until Japanese I class my freshman year at Rock Creek U. Taking roll, Murata-sensei got to me and stopped. "Uh, Crupp is not a good name in Japanese," she announced. "We don't have the u sound like in up, so we say your name with an 'a' like in 'Cr-Ap.'" She shook her head. "You cannot be 'Ms. Crap.'"

No kidding.

But then Murata-sensei gave me a real Japanese name, Kuro...

Cartoon 656

Caption: EE, inspired by Marissa Doyle

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Writing Exercise

Evil Editor's 3rd Annual Therapy Session

It's June, and that means it's time for Evil Editor's annual visit to his psychiatrist, Dr. Cherry Rosenberg. You'll find his earlier sessions described on June 14, 2009 and June 22, 2008.

Max words: 300

Deadline: Sunday, 10 AM eastern