Texas Pages Blog | Guidelive.com

February 2008

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
					1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29

Previous entries

Britney Spears, Roger Clemens: There's a Texas/literature connection in here somewhere

1:58 PM Mon, Feb 18, 2008 | Permalink
Michael Merschel

E-mail

News tips

Although it's admittedly a stretch.

Still, Galleycat notes that New Yorker editor Ben Greenman has made a hobby of doing musical treatments of current events. (His "Death Comes for Britney Spears," via YouTube, is posted below. It's marginally naughty -- and the acting is, um, no threat to any of the Oscar nominees.)

Anyhow, his latest work is about Texas' own Roger Clemens, and is posted at McSweeney's. Sample dialogue, which I suppose is vaguely Shakespearean, which makes it literary:

BRIAN MCNAMEE

Roger, I swear,
I'm in such despair.
I never meant to cause you any pain,
But, Roger, see,
They ordered me
To tell them what your shots really contained.

ROGER CLEMENS

If I had a baseball right here in my hand,
I'd hurl it hard at the spot where you stand.
Maybe I'd miss but maybe I'd hit.
Maybe, you numskull, your dumb skull would split.

It goes on like that.

Anyhow -- here's Britney.

Leave comment

Comments limited to 30 words or less are preferred. All comments may be edited for language and/or grammar.

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)

Comments:
Name:	Email:
Captcha: Type the characters you see in the picture above.

E-mail entry:

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://dev.beloblog.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-t.cgi/74682

Advertisement

Books on the Web Spotlight

Texas Pages

News about Texas writers, events, book reviews and more.

Britney Spears, Roger Clemens: There's a Texas/literature connection in here somewhere

Leave comment

E-mail entry:

TrackBack