It's Not Cricket (hee hee)
Due to the frustrating nature of the McSweeneys website, I can't directly link you to the article I'd like you to see. In any case go here and scroll down to the following:
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR OF BABYBUG, A MAGAZINE FOR READERS AGE 6 MONTHS TO 2 YEARS.
It probably says something about me that this letter was my favorite:
Dear Editor:Thanks to Adam Rex for the link.
Maybe it's just these postmodern times, but I finished your April story on gardens with a painful sense of reader's whiplash. Was it fiction or nonfiction? Your table of contents and editor's note did little to resolve this question, and the story itself was frustratingly self-obfuscating. One moment the reader is getting helpful advice on seed planting and the next a young boy is speaking with a bunny that's wearing an ascot. Please don't throw us so violently down the rabbit hole (pun intended!) again.
Kevin Oberlin
Age 11 months
Missoula, Montana
Labels: Babybug, Cricket Magazine, McSweeney's Schtoof
posted by fusenumber8 @ 12:05 AM
5 Comments
5 Comments:
Ah, that's good! And here's the direct link:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2007/6/6depp.html
Awesome. Sheer awesome.
Considering that the articles in Baby Bug are 2 to 4 pages long, that's a humongous critique. from the 11 month old's mom/ caretaker/ nanny/ whathaveyou.
That cracks me up. Thanks.
This selection was my favorite part of the letters:
My only complaint—and it's a small one—is with your staple-free design, which I feel implies a certain lack of faith in your readers.
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