Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Blog Entry
Dear Blog Reader,
Enclosed is a photograph showing the blog author and someone who appears to be Lemony Snicket within the same vicinity. The sea of young folk in the photograph is identified by The Daily Cornholyo as the Lowell High School Choir circa 1987. Mr. Snicket aka Daniel Handler was purportedly the student assistant director of the choir. The blog author, posing as a baritone but truly could not read musical notes, is shown sporting a mullet, a hairstyle fashionable among the clueless in the late 1980s.*
In order to make this name-dropping less pretentious, a word which here means “making a fool of one’s self for the sake of an interesting blog entry,” this blog author will feebly attempt to make a more substantial connection between himself and Mr. Snicket. Presented here are three pages from The Myriad, Lowell’s literary magazine for which Mr. Handler was an editor. Each page features an illustration by yours truly.
Hope that was worthwhile.
With all due respect,
DBD
*(man, what I’d do for a blog entry!)
Tags: 1980s, alumni, choir, daniel-handler, film, high-school, illustration, lemony-snicket, magazine, mullet, music, nostalgia
June 8th, 2004 at 6:34 pm
Dang, I can’t wait for that movie to come out.
June 14th, 2004 at 11:53 am
Not me. I think the movie is going to be *awful*, a word which here means “Jim Carrey should not have been let within 1000 feet of that script.” [sigh]. Also I think it does not do the series justice to throw three books into one. Why not a miniseries on Nickelodeon or something?
Wow, I’m now 3 degrees separation from Lemony Snicket!!! (me -> DBD -> Daniel Handler -> Lemony Snicket)
And TWO (2) (dos) Daniels in a choir?!?
June 14th, 2004 at 6:19 pm
i think it’s safe to say you’re two degrees separated from Handler/Snicket.
Yes, two Daniels. Handler was at the other end of the baton though. So there was no question who was singing out of tune.
As for the movie, I think I’ll have a wait-and-see attitude. Having Carrey in it sort of makes the movie franchise *his* vehicle though, doesn’t it?
June 14th, 2004 at 7:05 pm
3 degrees of Lemony Snicket
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June 15th, 2004 at 2:43 am
2 degrees?!? You mean you are both Daniel Handler and DBD? That’s a Veritably Fantastic Disguise to be in two places in the same photograph! And to which Daniel identity does Investigator Snicket send his packages?
June 15th, 2004 at 8:50 am
Uh, either I don’t understand what a “degree” means (is it the space bet. people or the person itself?) or I’ve just unwittingly declared myself one and the same as Snicket.
June 15th, 2004 at 1:05 pm
I stand corrected. I was mixing it up with _a_ definition of degrees of _freedom_ where you count the connections instead of counting nodes. Or something like that.