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[geekchick]

Y'know, I have (er, had -- it expired with the current one and I'm not renewing) a subscription to McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, but for me the best things about McSweeney's by far are the off-the-wall packaging of each issue (not that I ever quite get around to reading them, as you'll note from the fact that three of the last four are still tagged unread in my LibraryThing profile) and the various lists on the website. Like this one:

Unpublished Sequels to Famous Science-Fiction Novels. ("Celsius 232.7778")

I'm not entirely convinced that Dune novel hasn't actually been published yet though.

A few others for entertainment and procrastination purposes:

• Natural Rock Features Named by an Overwrought Mother Hired by the National Park Service. ("Wait Till Your Father Hears About This Rock")


• Secret Canadian Superweapons in Development. ("120 mm maple-syrup mortar")


• Geometric Relationships More Realistic Than the Love Triangle. ("The where-did-you-get-this-number rhombus")


• Leonard Cohen's Seven Immutable Laws of Business ("Three: There's nothing you can do behind your desk that can't be more effectively accomplished with a beautiful, long-haired, chain-smoking woman lying naked next to you in bed.")


• Ways in Which the Disinterred Corpse of Silent-Film Actor Lon Chaney Would Be a Better Vice President Than Dick Cheney. ("Grinning skull face a more convincing sign of goodwill.")

Comments

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson are working on the next Dune - perhaps that's it. :-)

[college-buddha.livejournal.com]

I loved Slaughterhouse 5, but I can't find the first four anywhere!

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

that can't be more effectively accomplished with a beautiful, long-haired, chain-smoking woman lying naked next to you in bed...

Sounds great, but I'd rather you not take up smoking... ;)

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

If I recall correctly, Gerald Bull, who was working on Saddam's supergun before the first Gulf War, was Canadian...