http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/neal_pollack_fact_of_the_day_for_short_s Among other professional distinctions, many dubious, Neal Pollack had the very first piece in the very first issue of McSweeney's, which included a parody of NPR-style strife-in-the-Third-World reporting. Representative sentence: "We had dirt for lunch today. All 23 of us. Jumanji, the patriarch of the family, is a short, bald, armless man who looks older than his 87 years..." OK, that's three sentences. Once you start it's hard to stop. Other then-basically-unknown writers in the first issue of McSweeney's, published in 1998, include Sarah Vowell and John Hodgman. [This has been a Neal Pollack Fact of the Day. A new... Copyright 2008 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:30:27 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss