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Crooked Timber » » Santa Clause — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 16:36:46 +0000

[...] (nb – I linked to this last year when it lived on its author, John Scalzi’s, blog). As a result of which people marketing movies like the The Happy Elf seem to have become convinced that I’m a valuable target for their marketing efforts). posted on Thursday, December 8th, 2005 at 11:36 am Post a comment [...]

By: Alan K. Henderson

Alan K. Henderson — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 09:13:15 +0000

Those transporters would make Santa’s job easier…

By: Jeremy Osner

Jeremy Osner — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 19:31:16 +0000

The benevolent rape scene is quite hilarious and I have not ever read the work of which it is making light; if I had it would probably be even funnier but I don’t think that is a favorable exchange for me.

By: Passing Fancy

Passing Fancy — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 08:42:18 +0000

OT: For more Ayn Rand mockery there's always Making Fun of Objectivism. Especially Bob the Angry Flower, who considers what happens twenty-four hours after the end of Atlas Shrugged. Tobias Wolff's novel Old School also has a section in which the semi-autobiographical narrator becomes obsessed with Ayn Rand. If I remember rightly it includes a very funny parody of Rand's stories written by an obsessive vegetarian and featuring space cows...

By: Jackmormon

Jackmormon — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 04:46:07 +0000

I think I like the Canadian-Content-Cronenberg story the best.

By: Kevin Carson

Kevin Carson — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 23:40:28 +0000

Well, this isn’t bad for Ayn Rand parody: The Benevolent Rape Scene

By: Silent E

Silent E — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 21:24:15 +0000

They can’t be as bad as this: “Star Wars Christmas Special”

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (Nov. 17, 1978), CBS broadcast a two-hour holiday event called “The Star Wars Holiday Special.” Never heard of it? That’s because after its ill-fated premiere, “Star Wars” creator George Lucas banished it forever from the realm of human existence. But something of this much weight has a way of reaching the masses. “Special” is certainly one word for that show. Other words one might choose to apply include “distressing,” “appalling” and “bad.”

By: Keith M Ellis

Keith M Ellis — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 19:34:37 +0000

If you’re in the market for more Rand satire… Who isn’t?

By: ogic

ogic — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 18:37:53 +0000

If you’re in the market for more Rand satire, you could do a lot worse than Mary Gaitskill’s novel Two Girls Fat and Thin, featuring Anna Granite.

By: Kevin Carson

Kevin Carson — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 18:34:19 +0000

lemuel, OK, that’s just going too far. BTW—after I read Walker’s The Ayn Rand Cult, I had a really bad dream where Rand was sitting in my living room, and I was trying to solicit her views on some opinion or other of Murray Rothbard’s without sending her into a frothing rage. During the whole exchange, I kept thinking to myself, “Please don’t let her find me sexually attractive. Please don’t let her find me sexually attractive…”

By: lemuel pitkin

lemuel pitkin — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 18:28:03 +0000

I don’t suppose anyone reading this lived in Chicago in the early-mid 90s and recalls “Ayn Rand Gives Me a Boner” at the Annoyance Theater? John Scalzi is fine but that was beyond brilliant.

By: roger

roger — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 18:08:03 +0000

I object. Ayn Rand’s Selfish Christmas is my family’s favorite Christmas show! We especially like the scene where the Grinch sells the who’s down in whoville back their presents at a fair market value. Slimy who welfare state worms!

By: Simstim

Simstim — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 17:40:57 +0000

It reads a bit like TV Go Home (which works best if you’ve watched some British TV and you’ve ever read the Radio Times).

By: Russell Arben Fox

Russell Arben Fox — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 17:31:07 +0000

This is, bar none, the funniest Christmas-related text of any form I have ever read. “In later letters, Rand sneeringly described these executives as ‘anti-life’”—for this alone, John Scalzi deserves a Nobel. Absolute genius.