The list for October 14, 1997
The Top 15 ways to celebrate
e.e. cummings’ birthday
e.e. cummings’ birthday
- Rowdy English lit students have a shift-key smashing party.
- When you tell Sajak you want to “buy a vowel,” demand the “lower case only” discount.
- spongiform yeastyblob
(glowing).
edible; festive. (eating.
wanting) cake
- As you have done to commemorate other close friends, write new version of “Candle In the Wind,” but call it, “candleinthewind.”
- i
don’t know
you
got any
ide
as??
- Convince drunken poetry students to hold their lighters in the air screaming: “FREE VERSE!”
- Keep pestering local library for “e.e. cummings’ big book of filthy limericks.”
- up from
jump) naked flower
cake springs, if you
know what I mean
- TP Maya Angelou’s house again.
- Drink a (lower) case of Bud.
- Like every October 14th, join the crowds for that big ol’ e.e. cummings parade down 5th Avenue.
- Invite AA Milne, BB King, CeCe Wayans, DeeDee Ramone, JJ Walker and LL Cool J over to watch some XX-rated movies.
- Try to score with k.d. lang.
- Buy Ted Turner’s new book: “The E.E. Cummings *Capitalized* Collection.”
And the Number 1 way to celebrate e.e. cummings’ birthday…
- throw
alanis
morisette
off
a
build
ing.
(splat)
.
CREDITS
Selected from 91 submissions from 37 contributors.
Today’s list authors were:
- Jeff Scherer, Brooklyn, NY — 1 (1st #1!)
- Larry Baum, Hong Kong — 2
- Jason Anderson, Birmingham, AL — 3
- Craig Stacey, Lisle, IL — 3
- Troy Roberson, Birmingham, AL — 4
- Beth Kohl, Chicago, IL — 4, 5, 12 (hat trick!)
- Bill Muse, Seattle, WA — 6
- Jim Rosenberg, Greensboro, NC — 6
- Alexander Clemens, San Francisco, CA — 7
- Don Swain, Pontiac, MI — 8
- Jennifer Hart, Arlington, VA — 9
- David Kass, Brooklyn, NY — 10, 11
- Hank Weilevy, Fairless Hills, PA — 13
- Steve Hurd, San Ramon, CA — 14
- Dave Henry, Slidell, LA — 15
- Greg Sadosuk, Fairfax, VA — 15
- Paul Schindler, Orinda, CA — 15
- Tisha Stacey, Lisle, IL — Topic
- Alan Smithee, Sugar Land, TX — Banner Tag
- Wade Kwon, Birmingham, AL — Punctuation Monitor
- Chris White, New York, NY — List owner/editor
- The Beatles, Liverpool, England — Ambience
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