It’s a competition – enter it! I’m not going to because Matt Nippert and Andrew Geddis already have and are much funnier than I could ever be, but do have a look – many of the entries are outstanding.
UPDATE
Danyl writes:
I’ve closed off comments on the Shelley writes the classics thread, because Keri Hulme has agreed to judge the entries and declare a winner. Winning criteria, date and time of the announcement and prize for best entry will all be subject to the merciless whims of Keri Hulme.
I dissent. I think Bridgeman is our best satirist since AK Grant.
ReplyDeletePossibly, BK - but AK meant it. Can we be sure that SB does?
ReplyDeleteI've had a soft spot for Bridgeman ever since she managed to smuggle a column about transphobia into the Herald — http://j.mp/tSuN9n — an achievement so noble I'm able to forgive occasional bursts of (apparent) idiocy, cookie-cutter op-eds, and awkward writing.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back, BK, as I should have said before - and yes, SB was probably the first Herald columnist to fully engage with transphobia. I don't recall Garth George or his predecessor Gordon McLauchlan even touching on this.
ReplyDeleteI do sympathise with people who feel that they have been born into the wrong body, as one commenter on that column put it. I feel I should have been born into Dan Carter's body, but I've got used to it by now.
Thanks! Although - full disclosure - I outsource most of my satire writing to a conglomerate in Laos.
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