Books Jul 27, 2009 at 11:30 am

This Is Really Weird

Paul Constant
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1
The writer for Sally Forth has also referenced Grey Gardens before, so you know this is one hip man.
au_gout on July 27, 2009 at 11:56 AM Report this
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She'd better be careful or the Schwartz Kommando will be after her...
treacle on July 27, 2009 at 11:59 AM Report this
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I'm not one of those crazy Pynchon theorists who wonders if Janet Evanovich is writing his books or seeks images of the man's face in tea leaves. HOWEVER, isn't it weird that that the guy published nothing between 1970 and 1990, and now seems to release 1000-page tomes every couple years? Might it not be possible that some new writer, or team of writers, has taken on the pseudonym of "Thomas Pynchon?" Carry on.
Gurldoggie on July 27, 2009 at 12:05 PM Report this
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Blondie? Proust? What did I miss?
on July 27, 2009 at 12:05 PM Report this
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I'm sure it's just me, but I never really got into Gravity's Rainbow. Now Proust . . . ah. Best cure for insomnia known to man.
Fifty-Two-Eighty on July 27, 2009 at 12:07 PM Report this
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@3: He still releases 1,000-page books every ten years. His last one, Against the Day, was three years ago. Inherent Vice is less than four hundred pages and feels much lighter than anything he's produced in a while. It's not completely inconceivable that he could produce it in that amount of time.
Paul Constant on July 27, 2009 at 12:09 PM Report this
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Sally Forth has also referenced "All Your Base Are Belong to Us," which is still the dang weirdest thing I've ever seen in print on the funnies page.
Mattini on July 27, 2009 at 12:10 PM Report this
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The guy who writes Sally Forth these days, Francesco Marciuliano, keeps a frequently-brilliant, generally-hilarious, almost-never-family-friendly blog. It lives here:
http://francescoexplainsitall.blogspot.c…
Christin on July 27, 2009 at 12:16 PM Report this
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I saw this strip make a reference to indie band And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead once.
on July 27, 2009 at 12:22 PM Report this
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Quite looking forward to the new Pynchon novel. It would be great if it contained a "Sally Forth" reference...
on July 27, 2009 at 12:22 PM Report this
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Got my sleeping bag, got my pad, hoping for dry weather the night of Monday Aug. 3rd, 'cause I'll be first in line when Boulder Bookstore opens. I aim to buy the first one of 'em 'suckers sold in Boulder County.
Just kidding. Mostly. But amongst the 5000 wonderful things about Pynchon is that he includes the apostrophe in front of the word 'sucker.
Eric from Boulder on July 27, 2009 at 12:23 PM Report this
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Have you read the new Pynchon, Constant?
slaggy on July 27, 2009 at 12:46 PM Report this
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@12: Yes. My review comes out on Wednesday. I think @11 will not be disappointed.
Paul Constant on July 27, 2009 at 1:32 PM Report this
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I've worked with Francesco once, he is a great guy and I can totally bet that this was on purpose.

@1 he is definitely a hip man.
TheFang on July 27, 2009 at 1:33 PM Report this
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@8: That's a great blog. Thanks for the link.
Paul Constant on July 27, 2009 at 1:34 PM Report this
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I'm seconding #4 - Proust and Blondie? What?!? More, please.
chorizo on July 27, 2009 at 3:40 PM Report this
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Reading Marciuliano's blog (and thanks for the tip, @8) it all makes more sense. But if you had asked me week ago, sure I would have said a Pynchon reference in Sally Forth was about as likely as finding Proust in Blondie. Or Nabokov in the Garfield. Which is to say, it would never ever happen (and I think that is all Constant was getting at, @16).
Eric from Boulder on July 27, 2009 at 5:30 PM Report this
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Awesome, awesome, awesome.
Lincolnish on July 27, 2009 at 9:22 PM Report this
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"The guy who writes Sally Forth these days, Francesco Marciuliano, keeps a frequently-brilliant, generally-hilarious, almost-never-family-friendly blog."

IIRC he also has another one that does nothing but parody all the other terrible strips out there. Seems like he's a bright guy that earns a paycheck and knows exactly how dull the funnies are.
undead ayn rand on July 28, 2009 at 1:03 AM Report this

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