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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2006-05-31 01:15 pm

Love is a garden of thorns

To all you surreal botanists out there:

As many of you already know, the prestigious academic division of Two Cranes Press has recently announced its forthcoming publication of the first Field Guide to Surreal Botany. Do not miss out on this unique opportunity to have your discoveries—however discredited by popular science rags or disbelieved by laymen—recorded and illustrated for all the world to know, cherish, and occasionally extirpate. Payment may enable you to move those terraria out of your bedroom and somewhere less liable to lawsuit.

Best of luck!

[identity profile] jlundberg.livejournal.com 2006-05-31 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for spreading the word, Sonya!

And Maxx Raabe did a cover of "Tainted Love"? Where oh where did you find it? I've looked on iTunes, but it's only the more serious stuff, not the cover songs. You already pointed me toward "Oops, I Did It Again," "Around the World," "We Will Rock You" and "Blue", but I'd love to hear more.

[identity profile] jlundberg.livejournal.com 2006-05-31 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, thanks for the link.

And I just looked them up on Amazon, and both Super Hits and Super Hits 2 seem to be available, even though iTunes has no clue. I may just have to order both albums now.

I am going to hold you fully responsible for the fact that I am currently researching both the botanical terminology of mandrakes and the Battle of Crete.

Awesome. I expect a thoroughly groovy submission now.

[identity profile] jlundberg.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Yep. The 500-word limit is a suggestion, but we'll certainly look at longer entries, though they need to be exceptional for us to do so. I don't think that will be a problem with you.

[identity profile] jlundberg.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll comfortably look at 1,000 words, but if it starts edging into 2,000 territory, you might want to query me first.

[identity profile] jlundberg.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, so fast! Looking forward to it.