It's Eggers' world, we're just bidding on the right to live in it
Via Gawker: In a new stunt charity drive, various authors are auctioning off naming rights to characters in their new novels. Dave Eggers clarifies, "The winner will be featured in a strange illustrated story I’m working on called The Journey of the Fishes Overland. The winner, or someone of her/his choosing, will be encountered by the traveling fish in question, as they travel over land... That name/s have to be tasteful and undisruptive to the narrative. I reserve the right to refuse using a name I find offensive."
NAMES DAVE EGGERS FINDS OFFENSIVE
Jewy Fagboy
Nigger McNiggerstein
Chief Wahoo
I.P. Freely
Paul Maliszewski
Karl Wenclas
P.J. Bardot
Sean Hannity
Neal Pollack
Voldemort
Dave "Stupidhead" Eggers
Comments
ahaha, i laffed and laffed. (i am five.)
Posted by: marjorie | September 20, 2005 3:24 PM
Comments should take on the appropriate Eggerstian tone, and finish with the obvious and ineffective.
Hi.
Posted by: The MR | September 20, 2005 11:43 PM
P.J. Bardot! HA!
Posted by: Tom | September 21, 2005 5:12 PM
Karl Muckenhaupt
Posted by: The Confidence Man | September 21, 2005 9:55 PM
Oh, surely Dave will be OK with "Neal Pollack." After all, according to Michael Wolff, my freshman-year roommate Neal is a figment of Dave's imagination.
Posted by: John | September 27, 2005 5:46 PM