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Lighter note
http://simplisticart.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 09/ lighter-note.htmlThe Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2008 Results here. The prize is given to the person who creates the worst opening sentence to an imaginary novel. I prize: Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies
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NYC: City of Whitman and Mailer Inspires a Line of Pure Piffle
http://www.auto.raxos.net/ nyc-city-of-whitman-and-mailer-inspires-a-line-of-pur…The annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which is given to the person who fashions the most wretched opening sentence to an imaginary novel, was won this year by a New Yorker.
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It was a Dark and Stormy Night...
http://hiberniaskids.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 08/ it-was-dark-and-stormy-night.html" Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole covers stamped "Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J."-- Garrison SpikWashington, D.C.Mr.
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It was a dark and stormy night…
http://pessimisticidealist.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 08/ 18/ it-was-a-dark-and-stormy…It was a dark and stormy night… Since so many of my readers write as well, I am pleased to reveal this year’s (recently announced) winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction contest. For those of you who don’t know, it is a contest (founded in 1982 by Scott Rice), to honour, and I quote, “the most
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'"Die, commie pigs!" grunted Sergeant "Rocky" Steele through his cigar stub as he machine-gunned the North Korean farm animals.'
http://wheresmynoose.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 08/ die-commie-pigs-grunted-sergeant-ro…The 2008 Bulwer-Lytton winners are up.
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Texas T. and Me
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/ blogs/ rperks/ texas_t_and_me.htmlHe came on like a Texas tornado, after fist approaching as quietly as a ninja wearing those soft-soled shoes, to take center stage as boldly as a tophat-and-tails circus ringmaster, letting his ideas gush forth like a newly tapped oil well and blowing people away with his vision for wind farms as far as the eye could see.
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The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2008
http://ncowie.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 08/ 18/ the-bulwer-lytton-fiction-contest-200…The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is an international literary parody contest, the competition honours the memory (if not the reputation) of Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873). The goal of the contest is childishly simple: entrants are challenged to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels.
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Toads of glory, slugs of joy
http://fantasycafe.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 08/ toads-of-glory-slugs-of-joy.htmlThe results from this year's Bulwer-Lytton contest are in, and the future of western literature has never looked, um, brighter. Bulwer-Lytton challenges entrants to write the worst opening sentence possible for imaginary novels in a variety of genres, and they generally succeed horribly.
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A cuppa-frappa-mocha morning with GoozNews
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/ blogs/ jsass/ a_gooznews_morning.htmlIt's one of those late Saturday mornings where all the morning chores are done, and it isn't time yet for the afternoon ones. The sun is sending a hot beam through my window like a surgical laser burning through a liver. The smell of a humid Washington summer is rising from the concrete like steam off a blood-sticky slaughterhouse floor.
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Good questions from Senator Boxer on Biofuels
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/ blogs/ ngreene/ good_questions_from_senator_bo.htmlAs you, my loyal readers, sweating away your August with hopefully better things to do than read my dribblings, will almost certainly not recall through the haze of July's global warming induced thunderstorms, back on July 10th, I testified before the Energy and Public Works, subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety.
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