0 for 2! Zing! Swing and a miss! Ah well.Good response time, though. Rejections from Eyeshot and McSweeney's in four days. This presents an opportunity for churn. Speaking of which (or not, but it's a transition innit) check out Darby Larson's Mel on Eyeshot, which has stuck with me for the past several days.
I don't have anything else for Eyeshot at the moment. I was rather hoping for one of Lee Klein's more legendary rejections ("Hi - thanks for sending this. I'm a big fan of breasts, of course -- who isn't? For the first part of this I was into it. I really liked the bit about raw cabbage...") but the brief and apologetic "readable, visual, and good-natured" will do. I did have a forehead-smacking I coulda submitted my Chinese poetry bit! moment about McSweeney's, so I'll go ahead and send that off to them. It's got that real world off-kilter veneer they're fond of: a fake thing pretending to be a real thing, like Dave Frye's From My Unfinished Dissertation on Breakfast Cereals.
It's heartening to realize that I've got a small stock of pieces that are actually worth buffing on my sleeve and sending off. So, in the absence of new words, I'll press-gang the old ones into service.
I don't have anything else for Eyeshot at the moment. I was rather hoping for one of Lee Klein's more legendary rejections ("Hi - thanks for sending this. I'm a big fan of breasts, of course -- who isn't? For the first part of this I was into it. I really liked the bit about raw cabbage...") but the brief and apologetic "readable, visual, and good-natured" will do. I did have a forehead-smacking I coulda submitted my Chinese poetry bit! moment about McSweeney's, so I'll go ahead and send that off to them. It's got that real world off-kilter veneer they're fond of: a fake thing pretending to be a real thing, like Dave Frye's From My Unfinished Dissertation on Breakfast Cereals.
It's heartening to realize that I've got a small stock of pieces that are actually worth buffing on my sleeve and sending off. So, in the absence of new words, I'll press-gang the old ones into service.
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