Making great first lines with the crap that falls around you.

Atomic Nerds, if you haven't gone to see, is an irreverent couple of science geeks (Labrat and Stingray) out west. They've got take on things worth checking out, including my favorite yearly contest, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. The goal of the contest is to produce the best first line for the worst book never written. They break it up into categories. For the reader with a sense of humor, it's deliciously terrible. And even if you have a short attention span, it's worth the trip. Seriously-- they're literally one-liner jokes.

Well, our friend Stingray has found that this is the best way to make sense of really stupid search strings that refer people to their site.

Why do I picture...

...some guy just outside of Newport News, frustrated in his efforts to present himself to the Real Deal, and join up? No one he asks will help him in his quest. But as another closed door, I too represent to him a part of the Conspiracy Of Silence.