So, yeah, they’re everywhere.

And then there’s the book mentioned in a New York Times article about conspicuous consumerism “Spent: Sex, Evolution and Consumer Behavior.”

You know, like how if time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. And “Kids Make Nutritious Snacks”! But sadly these headlines are, according to snopes.com, not real.

Also once there was a reason someone gave, on the Wallace list, for always using the Oxford comma, claiming that he’d actually seen this book dedication: “To my parents, God and Ayn Rand.”

Then I dug up another from days of yore, which actually had me laughing into my spinach ravioli because I thought it was so funny, but guess what? I ALREADY FORGOT IT. Depleted estrogen is making it really hard to play this game. Oh well—we’ll always have “British Left Waffles on Falkland Islands.”

thus also,
Finding Faults
Redeeming Virtues
Calculated Abandon
Turning Point

none of which has the elegance of Miss America or Enduring Freedom/Enduring Love

Feminist Issue
Trying Fiction

I think “Garret Retreats” is my new favorite.