Comments on: Scalzi’s unsuccessful holiday specials http://max256.bearstrong.net/2009/12/12/scalzis-unsuccessful-holiday-specials/ 256 words or less - or your money back! Sat, 04 May 2013 17:25:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: Sprudlum http://max256.bearstrong.net/2009/12/12/scalzis-unsuccessful-holiday-specials/#comment-497 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:50:12 +0000 http://max256.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/scalzis-unsuccessful-holiday-specials#comment-497 Rand Satire Sequel, (or RSS for the acronymically inclined.)

This short version of “Atlas Shrugged updated for the current finacial crisis” by Jeremiah Tucker is absolutely hilarious.

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2008/11/20tucker.html

Warning: the satire is of Atlas Shrugged, but the joke isn’t really on Rand I think, but then, I am not to be trusted in these matters.

]]> By: Sprudlum http://max256.bearstrong.net/2009/12/12/scalzis-unsuccessful-holiday-specials/#comment-498 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:07:26 +0000 http://max256.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/scalzis-unsuccessful-holiday-specials#comment-498 Really funny !

I’ll have to admit that initially I took this to be an authentic Rand story, and that I was almost halfway into it before joke dawned on me.

In my defense I will note that Rand wrote a few short stories and plays in addition to her novels. Also, I was mislead by the fact that ‘Atlas Shrugged’ was published
in 1957, not in 1951. Or is there supposed to be an additional humourous point with the mix-up of the years ?

(Obviously, with humour, I need all the help I can get.)

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