For an explanation of the 30 Stories in 30 Days, start at Day 1.
Today’s “story” is not a story. It’s a list of titles for other stories that I made up, based on a very famous boy detective and his well-worn book titling convention. If you want an actual story, you’ll have to settle for this anecdote: one time I read the word “titling” and in my head I pronounced it “TIT ling” and I spent 5 minutes trying to figure out what the hell a “TIT ling” was and then I finally moved on and after reading the rest of the sentence realized that the word was “TY tul ling” and it meant “to give something a title” and I was an idiot. The year was 2009.
Okay! Without any further ado, I give you:
Six Encyclopedia Brown Books for 2011
- Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Groupon Massage
- Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Twitter Trend
- Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Dubious Divorce
- Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Movie Renter’s Mess-Up
- Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Stupid Scorpion Jacket that We Are All Going to Have to Deal With Being a Thing for a While
- Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Dr. Pepper Dipshits
Six Encyclopedia Brown Books That Describe My Weekend
- Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Thundersnow
- Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Law and Order Marathon
- Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Missed Birthday Party
- Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Accidental Nap
- Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Grown Woman Watching the Movie Spooky Buddies All By Herself for Some Reason
- Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Macaroni and Cheese Binge
Six Encyclopedia Brown Rip-Offs
- Thesaurus Bronze and the Claim of the Comparable Cousin
- Dictionary Dave and the Case of the Voluminous Vocabulary
- Wikipedia Brown and the Case of Anything Goes
- Detecting for Dummies and That Time What We Got Into Trouble
- Clancy Brown and the Case of the Shawshank Redemption
- A. Whitney Brown and the Big Picture
