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...writing a story or novel with a character or a plotline in mind?AG: Usually I think of a character and then the plotline comes out of that. That was certainly true of Paradise Park. In this book, the character of Sharon Spiegelman started in a short story called "Onion Skin," which I wrote years ago. Not much of the language of the story survives in the novel, but that is where her voice came from. Sharon is a character that I certainly love. She is quite self-absorbed, particularly at the beginning of the novel. She's somebody...
Perhaps the HPT team should have had the foresight to add a large bear perched on an onion dome and holding a sign "THIS IS RUSSIA" to drive the point home to its less-enlightened viewers. Moreover, the link The Crimson draws between "middle-eastern" and "terrorists" is--in the absence of bombs, violence or anything other than innocent dancing--nothing short of racist...
...Professor Skip Gates" is "New and Hip, with teriyaki sauce, a slice of pineapple, cole slaw and onion rings...
Until he disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1996, the ibis, also known by his Latin name Ibis Threskiornis, was soldered to the onion-shaped dome of the Lampoon building. After the bird's reappearance in November, the fun-loving Lampoon dispatched its lawyer to retrieve the ibis from The Crimson, and the newspaper eventually agreed to return the mascot in time for the magazine's 125th anniversary celebration in early February...
...Coach can't take over the top job, next in line is the president pro tempore of the Senate, the venerable Strom Thurmond ("pro tempore," by the way, is fancy lingo for "oldest guy"). This of course has led to lots of ageist chuckling (the most outrageous: the Onion's assertion that a President Thurmond would appoint Orval Faubus as Secretary of Slaves...