Okay.
Here's a game: pick an Australian cricketer who isn't punchable.
Yeah, like, when you see them on screen you don't think to yourself, "There's nothing wrong that a punch to the face wouldn't fix with you."
Even though.
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Ricky Ponting?
This is the problem with the Australian team. I mean, if you go out on the street, you have to struggle to find someone who likes this team. It's not like we're not talking a team of losers here, we're talking a team that dominates the world scene, and has done for years. They are the standard and no one meets the fuck up. But--but, y'know, you walk out this door, man, you find some people on the street, mate, and there's a good chance they don't like the team personally.
Maybe if we write them a letter.
"Dear Australian Cricket,
I have noticed that your team is tremendously punchable.
I believe this incredible dislike I feel for your team is based off their smug, uncharitable nature of the people in your team. For a tidy sum, I could help this. I could make them good, laid back men who don't date women that all look the same.
Yours,
Non-Cricket Fan in Front of TV."
Here's a game: pick an Australian cricketer who isn't punchable.
Punchable?
Yeah, like, when you see them on screen you don't think to yourself, "There's nothing wrong that a punch to the face wouldn't fix with you."
Even though they'd cane the shit out of you if you even got that close?
Even though.
Okay.
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Wow.
There's not, like, one of them, mate. I kinda hate them all. I never realised that.
You know who's the worse?
There's not, like, one of them, mate. I kinda hate them all. I never realised that.
You know who's the worse?
Ricky Ponting?
Ricky Ponting.
This is the problem with the Australian team. I mean, if you go out on the street, you have to struggle to find someone who likes this team. It's not like we're not talking a team of losers here, we're talking a team that dominates the world scene, and has done for years. They are the standard and no one meets the fuck up. But--but, y'know, you walk out this door, man, you find some people on the street, mate, and there's a good chance they don't like the team personally.
It's a PR thing. They should have someone come in and remake their image as drunk, slightly overweight cricket geeks, like in the eighties.
Maybe if we write them a letter.
It'd have to be polite.
"Dear Australian Cricket,
I have noticed that your team is tremendously punchable.
I believe this incredible dislike I feel for your team is based off their smug, uncharitable nature of the people in your team. For a tidy sum, I could help this. I could make them good, laid back men who don't date women that all look the same.
Yours,
Non-Cricket Fan in Front of TV."
That's fucking genius.
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- yeff
If something big happens then crowd cheers and you look up and they show you a rerun. Perfect.
- yeff
btw, man, i'm glad you liked theleeharveyoswaldband.
I'm reading Polyphony 6 because I want to submit something to Polyphony 7 for consideration. I'm finding that they like work that's less "grounded" than what I usually write, and that's starting to expand my brain in new directions as to what could constitute a story. So it's good, even if I'm a bit befuddled at times...
- yeff
the book is, i think, much more mainstream styled spec fic, i think.
anyhow, thanks for the words on the story. i do that split narrative shit all the time--it's a tic i have to watch out for, but i like it. i like the bounce between the two, and i find it allows you to get a lot more into the short word count. for what it's worth.
I'd agree, Polyphony and LCRW are both mainstream styled - one could easily see some of the stories appear in other more "mainstream"-esque places. Which I think speaks to how some of the genre/mainstream boundaries are breaking down. I mean, heck, Cormac McCarthy won the freaking Pulitzer for what was, in some sense, a post-zombie-apocalypse novel...
- yeff