The Splendiferously Bearded Writers Social Club: Herman Melville

  • Name: Herman Melville
  • D/O/B: 8/1/1819
  • Member Since: 1860
  • Status: Charter Member
  • Important Role: Chief teller of rousing sea-born tales, some of them even true
  • Hobbies: Whale-watching; dreaming of mystifying high-school students for generations to come; maintaining his luxurious head of model-worthy hair
Herman Melville, 1860

Herman Melville, 1860

Daily Diversion #224: Elvis is in the Building

When I’m not writing, I’m being serenaded by dead rock stars! Jealous much?

Elvis

Elvis came back from the dead/out of hiding (depending on your viewpoint) and dedicated “Suspicious Minds” to me.

The Splendiferously Bearded Writers Social Club: Henry David Thoreau

  • Name: Henry David Thoreau
  • D/O/B: 07/12/1817
  • Member Since: 1856
  • Status: Charter Member
  • Important Role: Chief lecturer and rabble-rouser at all meetings
  • Hobbies: Pondering; thinking; philosophizing; protesting; communing with nature; intensely staring at all and sundry
Henry David Thoreau, 1856

Henry David Thoreau, 1856

 

Oh, Spambots! You’re So Funny!

A Small Press Life is being hit hard by spambots this week (99% of which is caught by the spam filter, fortunately). These are my 3 faves from today, and my responses to them:

  1. Hello,My name is Job and I’m a professional fraenelce writer with 3 years of experience. ( (Nice to meet you, Job. Perhaps you could give me some tips on fraenelcing?)
  2. Boom shlakaaka boom boom, problem solved. (Boom boom, indeed.)
  3. I much prefer inrfamotive articles like this to that high brow literature. (I think you are on the wrong site, dude. 90% of what I write about is high brow literature, although I try to be as inrfamotive as possible).
Titta Ruffo

Is that you, Spambot? (It’s actually opera singer Titta Ruffo, dressed up as a clown. Circa 1913.)

The Splendiferously Bearded Writers Social Club: George MacDonald

  • Name: George MacDonald
  • D/O/B: 12/10/1824
  • Member Since: 1864
  • Status: Charter Member
  • Important Role: advice columnist for the club newsletter
  • Hobbies: Mentoring Lewis Carroll; befriending some literary giants and influencing others; getting his fantasy on

George MacDonald

George MacDonald

[Book Nerd Humour] Let’s Use Slate’s Travoltify Your Name Generator on Some Dead Writers

TRAVOLTIFY YOUR NAME

  • CHARLES DICKENS=CARYS DORNIELS
  • VIRGINIA WOOLF=VICTOR WHAYTE
  • JANE AUSTEN=JOE ALLORN
  • LEO TOLSTOY=LUKE TAYZLOR
  • KATHERINE MANSFIELD=KRISTOPHER MCEEZALD
  • JACK KEROUAC=JIA KEENEEDIA
  • F. SCOTT FITZGERALD=F. STUART FERZGUSON
  • ZELDA FITZGERALD=ZARA FERZGUSON
  • GEORGE ELIOT=GRACE EDJANS
  • ERNEST HEMINGWAY=ELLIOT HARGISION
  • ANNE BRONTË=AVA BORFES
  • CHARLOTTE BRONTË=COLE BORFES
  • EMILY BRONTË=ELIJAH BORFES

What does this alternate world look like?

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Thanks to Vickie Lester for letting me know about the Travoltify Your Name generator!