{"id":181,"date":"2006-02-26T12:41:24","date_gmt":"2006-02-26T17:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2006\/02\/26\/california-game-update\/"},"modified":"2006-02-26T12:41:24","modified_gmt":"2006-02-26T17:41:24","slug":"california-game-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2006\/02\/26\/california-game-update\/","title":{"rendered":"California game update"},"content":{"rendered":"

My uncle John<\/a> offers a rhyming take on Atlantis<\/a>, and my mom<\/a> gently reminds me that of course I didn’t invent the form: both “California” and the game were inspired by a picture book she read us when we were young, called Whose Mouse Are You<\/a>, by Robert Kraus.<\/p>\n

Also, saved from the LJ comment thread:<\/p>\n

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Will:<\/b><\/a>Where is Atlantis? Under the sea.<\/p>\n

What’s under the sea? Not you, and not me.<\/p>\n

Well then, where are we? The internet.<\/p>\n

How’d we get there? Zeroes and ones.<\/p>\n

What do those stand for? Video fun.<\/p>\n

What is flypaper?<\/p>\n

Me:<\/b><\/a> Sweetness that kills.<\/p>\n

David:<\/b><\/a> What can’t be killed?<\/p>\n

Scott:<\/b><\/a> Everything dies.<\/p>\n

Josh:<\/b><\/a> Why do they die?<\/p>\n

William:<\/b><\/a> They run out of time.<\/p>\n

Beth:<\/b><\/a> What is time?<\/p>\n

Kevan:<\/b><\/a> Memory. [Then, because of a crosspost:] Curse you, time!<\/i><\/p>\n

Ken:<\/b><\/a> What time is it?<\/p>\n

Stephen:<\/b><\/a> It’s hamburger time.<\/p>\n

David:<\/b> Do hamburgers rhyme?<\/p>\n

Scott:<\/b> Not on my dime.<\/p>\n

Me:<\/b> OKAY NEW ONE. What is a curse?<\/p>\n

Scott:<\/b> Bad karma, realized.<\/p>\n

William:<\/b> How is it realised?<\/p>\n

Ken:<\/b> Through the teachings of the Maharishi.<\/p>\n

Beth:<\/b> What is the Maharishi?<\/p>\n

Me:<\/b> A teacher of hunger.<\/p>\n

Scott:<\/b> Where is the hunger?<\/p>\n

David:<\/b> In the bowels of the cursed…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which seems like a neat place for a cutoff.<\/p>\n

How many is seven?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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