Watch out, Yahoo! Prinsiana had a fantastic 16 unique visitors yesterday, beating our old record of 15 from a week ago Tuesday. What is it with Tuesdays? Are you expecting a visit from Morrie?
Watch out, television! Today is day one of The Month (And A Couple Weeks) With Very Little Television. Kim believes that Madden 2000 should count against my television hours. Perhaps I will throw some Olympic figure skating footage her way if she allows me some Nintendo. [Editor's note: This goes strictly against the idea of giving up something for Lent; remember that Matthew Prins does not speak for all of Prinsiana.] [Matthew's note: Oh yes he does, newly fired editor dude.]
Watch out, those waiting for the next quarter-chapter in my novel! My novel is on hiatus until further notice. Instead, I am starting a book of short stories and flash fiction tentatively titled, The Best Liechtensteinian Short Stories 2002. If I write one 2000-word short story a week (or half a 4000-word story, or five 400-word stories), I could have this sucker ready for (non-)publication by the beginning of 2003. Won't happen, of course.
Two ideas for an introduction:
1) Synopsis: "In a search for the best Liechtensteinian short stories of 2002, I read copies of every major and minor literary journal in Liechtenstein, along with scouring the pages of European journals for Leichtensteinian authors. Every short story I read was crap. Thus, due to publisher obligation to come up with a 300-page book, I have instead filled these pages with my own short stories, which are also crap, but I don't have to pay royalties on them."
2) Synopsis: "Fifteen years ago, even the most ardent Western cinemaphiles had almost certainly never seen an Iranian film. Thanks to the raves of film critic Godfrey Cheshire and others, the films of Abbas Kiarostami and other Iranian filmmakers are ubiquitous in arthouses today. In my travels across Europe, I found a similarly undiscovered subculture: the short stories of Liechtenstein writers. Mainly studying under famed novelist Pieter Fitzpatrick at the University of Southern Liechtenstein, these authors create simplistic, post-modern works -- like those of Kiarostami -- that are both entrenched in their culture and oblivious to it.” (I have no idea what that last clause means.)
Those who are on the Never Underestimate a Polar Bear With a 1911 Colt list will receive these short stories instead. Those who aren't, uh, why not?
oh so lovingly written by
Matthew |
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
