As part of the promotion for What He's Poised to Do, Ben Greenman's forthcoming book of stories inspired by letters, Harper Perennial invites folks to submit a letter written to a fictional character.
HP is posting selected letters at a Letters With Character: the blog. My favorites so far are
the letter to Lowly Worm of Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go;
the letter to Malone of Samuel Beckett's Malone Dies;
the letter to Charlie of Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower;
and the letter to Olympia of Katherine Dunn's Geek Love.
2 comments:
I almost drove off the road the first time I heard that lyric. Mostly out of shame for even knowing what Tae-Bo was.
I've always had a soft spot (in terms of lyrical worstness) for the Paula Cole lyric "I will wash the dishes / while you go have a beer" from the wholly execrable Where Have All The Cowboys Gone.
But, yeah...I think Train wins.
:)
For me it's really the "checks out" that takes it over the edge. Like, "Hey, during my Tae-Bo workout, I think I'll check out the tunes of Mozart."
I have to admit, though, that if it'd been "Schoenberg" or "Stockhausen," I might've been giddy and thought that Train was awesome.
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