Author's unfortunate life sentence: Poor Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The 19th century author coined such enduring gems of wisdom as "The pen is mighter than the sword," but just let him write the worst opening sentence in English literature, and they never let him forget it. This year's Bulwer-Lytton competition, in which contestants write the very best worst sentence possible using his style, has a winner:
"Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to reveal a woman whose body said you’ve had your last burrito for a while, whose face said angels did exist, and whose eyes said she could make you dig your own grave and lick the shovel clean."
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
