Tuesday, October 28, 2008

a case of the tuesdays

The coolest thing I learned about this month was a challenge posed to Ernest Hemmingway to write his biography in just six words.

His went something like this: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn..."

I came across a lot of fantastic ones from people both famous and not-so-famous. My favorites were:
"Catholic school backfired. Sin is in!"
"Longed for him. Got him. Shit."
"Will this do (lazy writer asked)?"
"Finally, he had no more words."
"Steve ignores editor's word limit and"
"Dorothy: 'Fuck it. I'll stay here.'"

and as my good friend used to say, the "story of my life" is:

Doing nothing is too a hobby!

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