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...stakes were middling when, in February of last year, Penguin Books and De Montfort University kicked off their “A Million Penguins?? project. It was a collaborative online novel—given a year to gestate in wiki form, without restrictions—a mirror walking down a series of tubes. Now the project is over, the novel published, and the verdict in: It’s terrible...
...subversive “lens for the analysis of culture, language and narrative.” Whether or not this allusion was worked in to apologize for the project’s flawed final product, it’s not off the mark: “A Million Penguins?? has much to say about the Internet’s still-shrouded dynamics...
...There is of course a limit to even the theoretical merit of “A Million Penguins??—it may only prove the adage that too many cooks spoil the broth—but we today are too slow to consider the tools and mechanics that proverbial broth-making implies. The collaborative novel, if nothing else, gives us an opportunity to reflect on our technological situation. After all, isn’t laughter “the panacea for the pain of the human experience…like apathy is the icing on the tractor?...
...hopes the film will appeal to a wide audience. However, he knows his target demographic: “If you’re a 17-year-old boy and you laugh at poop jokes, I’m your man.” “Farce of the Penguins?? adds to a long list of recent raunchy career moves he’s made. “The irony of my life is that one second, I’m saying nasty stuff and the next, I turn into father mode,” he says. Just...
...Obviously he was a very high draft choice, and we’re very happy to have him in the organization,” said the late Herb Brooks, former Pittsburgh Penguins?? Director of Player Development and coach of the 1980 Gold-Medal winning ‘Miracle on Ice’ team. “He has the size, the skating ability, the decision making...
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