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Everybody Should Read Overqualified

Posted on June 9th, 2009 - 2:19 pm - no comments

Thanks to Randall Munroe’s mentioning (in his blag), I’ve become addicted to Overqualified. For instance, check this:

Dear Nintendo,

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We need a new Mario game, where you rescue the princess in the first ten minutes, and for the rest of the game you try and push down that sick feeling in your stomach that she’s “damaged goods”, a concept detailed again and again in the profoundly sex negative instruction booklet, and when Luigi makes a crack about her and Bowser, you break his nose and immediately regret it.

When Peach asks you, in the quiet of her mushroom castle bedroom “do you still love me?” you pretend to be asleep. You press the A button rhythmically, to control your breath, keep it even.

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You can read Overqualified for free here »

Me? I bought the book and enjoyed it alot. Then again the archives are getting fresh letters…

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