Friend of the Rumpus and all around cool guy Paul Collins has revived the Collins Almanac on the McSweeney’s iPhone app:
“After six years of slumber (I prefer to call it “deep cogitation”) the Almanac is back as an exclusive on the McSweeney’s iPhone App. It is, exactly as you’d imagine, basically me puttering about old and odd books, picking them up, and exclaiming: “What! Ho-ho! Listen to this!”
It all began back when I was living in Hay-on-Wye, and scribbling odd finds into a memo pad while I shoveled the book piles in Richard Booth’s antiquarian warehouse; and it started turning into a full-fledged manuscript while writing Sixpence House. In short, the Almanac is that book’s eccentric bespectacled uncle.”
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I recently got McSweeney’s. Figured I’d work on broadening the old horizons :). This almanac has a few entries that have me lost for thought. Some of it doesn’t make a lick of sense, and some is just written with unnecessarily complicated phrases. Is it just me? Am I missing something?? Thanks.
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