The 2012 winners of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest have been announced. For those unfamiliar with this treasure of wit, the BLFC is an annual competition to write the worst possible opening sentence for a novel. How bad are the submissions? Pretty darn bad. Why should you be interested? Many of them are hilariously bad. What else? There’re actually some clever perception shift and bait-and-switch examples in there.
The competition is currently celebrating its 30th year.
Yahoo Travel (of all places) has an article on the best-looking college campuses in the US. It’s actually just a crib of the first ten slides from this Travel and Leisure feature – lazy Yahoo! My alma mater, the University of San Diego, is on the list – no surprise to anyone who has been there. It really is very inspiring to live and work in a beautiful space.
The complete list, in the order presented, includes:
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