How to make Hayjax laugh
I’m currently working on a project that involves some research on “how-to” ebooks, and the titles currently on offer at Lulu, a self-publishing site, are giving me giggle-fits. A sampling:
- How to summon demons
- How to speak southern
- How to succeed in murder
- How to breathe
- How to be Irish
- How to get your husband to listen to you
- How to argue with an economist
- How to pass a polygraph guaranteed
- How to make a snake hook
- How to cheat on your wife
- How to keep chickens at home
- How to woo a spinster
- How to work with a dragon
- How to appreciate a Vietnam vet
- How to seduce a Texan
I just want to retreat with all of these titles for a deluxe makeover weekend and emerge on Monday a southern-speaking, chicken-keeping, snake-hooking, demon-summoning murderer. Now that’s the kind of superhero this crazy, messed-up world needs more of.
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