One swing voter
Fascinating stuff: inside the mind of a swing voter.
Parody? Not parody?
“The result is a cornucopia, and a fuller look at the radiant candor that is her oeuvre.”
With apologies to Malvina Reynolds
ittle boxes from the White House, Little boxes gone to Florida.
“Steel Slats”
“Black Slacks”: The lyrics are so easily repurposed.
Imitation and parody
Eudora Welty and Dick Cavett talk about imitation and parody.
Impromptu in D
“Oh, Jake,” Peggy said, “we could have had such a damned good time together.”
Erle Dre
“Psst, Erle,” she whispered. “Got an Oreo?”
Bully for Woolly
I thought I was reading a spoof, but no, Woolly, a magazine, is real.
Nanski
A Nancy parody, found in a sampler of MAD imitators.
The Post New York Post
A parody from 1984: the Post New York Post.
“Word Crimes”
A teaching and learning resource for the twenty-first century!
“Make My Jotter Quit!”
“How does one tell the difference between the so-called refill and the cartridge whose place the refill takes, the ‘original’ cartridge, the pen’s ‘point,’ as it were, imperial, serene, solitary, or so it would seem, yet always to be displaced by a New-man, an identical impostor, one in a series of impostors, each claiming the work of inscription as its own?”
Strunk and White parody
The Elements of Press Release Style
A Depression psalm
The 1932nd Psalm
"Stories from This American Life"
A fine parody
The iPan
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Paper products and The Onion
There must be a stationery addict working at The Onion.
After William Carlos
Bernard Madoff's "This Is Just to Say"