NED: I refuse to write poetry about pigs’ knees.
ED: Why’s that?
NED: It’s against my religion. I don’t do pigs’ knees. Is that controversial?
ED: Well, you sure have a hardline stanza on a boar shin!
literature
My dog wrote a novel. Unfortunately, it was terrible. The plot was so arf-fetched.
True story: Oedipus‘ mom was diagnosed with Porkin’ sons.
Alternate title for Homer’s Iliad?
Of Mycenaean Men.
Rowan Atkinson refuses to do nude scenes, due to insecurity over his pale complexion. He wrote about it, in fact: The Unbareable Whiteness of Bean.
My dyslexic child wants to read War and Peace, after hearing about the famous Russian novelist Leo Toystore.
Indian raitas pen a lot of naan-fiction. They unfold at a curried paste. I like to sit down in Mahal and read them. I got so engrossed the last time when my mom was leaving the house I didn’t even wish her ‘Mum, bai.’ Lucky she left me a deli sandwich. I Vishnu could read them all, but in India, of these books, they ban galore.
This week’s hot lit pick: Maybe Dick by Her/Man Melville, with famous opening line “Call me shemale.”
Why was Detective Twain encouraged after visiting the forensics lab in the case of The Bubblegum Murders?
Because he had the prints – and he’d soon have the popper.
Is Salman Rushdie against sheep?
Perhaps. Some say he is lambophobic.