By The Beachwood Literary Affairs Desk
Beachwood contributor Drew Adamek writes:
From my wife’s Contemporary Culture 101 Syllabus:
1. Busting Rhymes and Fighting Crimes: The Tao of Barney Fife
2. Fuck It, I’ll Pay For It: The Tom DeLay Story
3. I Don’t Know You, I Don’t Know Your Life: Intro to Mass Communication
4. You Think I’m Going to Eat All This Chicken By Myself?
5. Deadbeat Life: How to (Barely) Survive by Not Doing Shit
6. “Dang”: The Seven Redneck Wonders
7. Infected, A Love Story
8. Eat, Love, Pray
9. The Constitution Don’t Mean Shit: Clarence Thomas in his Own Words
10. Your Momma Ain’t Here Now: The Clarence Thomas Story
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Beachwood editor Steve Rhodes: “Is this for real? If it is, I’d love to use it in Booklist. I don’t have to mention her name, though we would mention the course and school.”
Adamek: “Naw, I made it up. I wish it was real. [She] was bitching about how dumb some of her textbooks were and we started brainstorming.”
Rhodes: “I just think it’s funny, would like to find a way to use.”
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Just did.
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Comments welcome.
Posted on January 26, 2010