An Oldie, But a Goodie

"I try to make the magazine as untimely and irrelevant as possible." - Dave Eggers


I recently picked up Dave Eggers' "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" -- a hilarious and painful memoir that not only reinforced how much I like Eggers' writing, but also reminded me of one of my favorite online literary journals, McSweeney's, of which Eggers' is the editor and a contributor.

A while back, a friend shared a hilarious McSweeney's post, written by Ryan Dilbert titled, "An Extremely Patient Producer Works With an Aspiring Pornography Scriptwriter." It's entirely too funny -- the way it's set up is that you only see the letters written back from the Producer to the Scriptwriter. We never see the actual script -- which is what makes this so comical and brilliant (because you can only imagine what this mystery person could be writing about.)

I highly suggest you take a few minutes to laugh today -- let Ryan Dilbert help you out.