Bart King's Blog, page 117
January 27, 2014
Multiple Choice!
This photo was taken...
a. Because I was practicing being a supervillain as research for The Big Book of Superheroes , or...
b. To post by my "Classroom Rules" list, or...
c. I was on my morning walk when a group of villagers armed with pitchforks and iPhones confronted me, or…
d. I was doing my Mad Max impersonation, or…
e. I have a WWE audition to go to, or… ?
Answer under the break!The correct answer is b.!
a. Because I was practicing being a supervillain as research for The Big Book of Superheroes , or...
b. To post by my "Classroom Rules" list, or...
c. I was on my morning walk when a group of villagers armed with pitchforks and iPhones confronted me, or…
d. I was doing my Mad Max impersonation, or…
e. I have a WWE audition to go to, or… ?
Answer under the break!The correct answer is b.!
January 26, 2014
One, two, three, four, let's have a Twitter war!
The authors Mat Johnson and Adam Mansbach just had a Twitter war with “Yo novel” jokes. Behold!
—MJ: Your books so long, they make Donna Tartt's “The Goldfinch” look like a haiku.
—AM: That novel you wrote in second person is still waiting for a second person to read it.
—MJ: Your Amazon ranking is featherweight.
—AM: The good news about your novel is, you can add any number of vampires without decreasing the book's literary merits at all.
—MJ: Your book got a bad review on Reading Rainbow.
—AM: The middle-aged professor having an affair with his student is by the far the most original part of your novel.
—MJ: Your audio book is 12 hours long but the last four are the narrator snoring.
—AM: The Library of Congress filing info in the front of your book reads "1. Pretentious BS–Fiction 2. Dillettantes–Fiction."
—MJ: Your book killed Borders.
January 24, 2014
I like to eat buffalo wings when I take notes
This picture of a student casually eating corn-on-the-cob in class was posted online. Then comments like these followed!
— "Be careful taking photos, you could get charged with stalking."—"There's not a kernel of truth to that statement."—"Shucks, you may have a point."
...and my friends added:—"I wonder what she is whispering in that ear." (Donna M.)—"She's a seasoned pro." (Mike L.)
