Travis McGee Lives!

A pal who watches Readerville closely just sent me the following, hilarious posting by "tpc" to the site's Bibliolounge forum:

"One of my resolutions for 2009 is to start a new blog -—yeah, yeah, starting a blog is so 2004. I’ve started two of them and got bored with myself after a month both times.

My problem of course is that me and my thoughts, on their own, aren’t interesting enough for anyone to bookmark. so, I needed a sure-fire hook to get people to bookmark and visit.

So, the name of my blog will be 'Sex Scenes from the Life of Travis McGee.'

Each day, I will post an excerpt from a John D. MacDonald Travis McGee book—just one of the sex scenes. These scenes are, to my mind, the most inadvertantly funny pieces of writing in American literature. MacDonald never quite escaped his post-WWII carefulness and prudity in writing sex scenes, but he still went into great detail about what was happening. But his scenes generally never mentioned any part of the human body, so you were never quite sure if McGee and his partner were having sex or discussing possible ways to diagram a sentence.

Having set the scene with the McGee excerpt, then I can post anything I want in my blog."

Daymn, that's funny!

PS - Woefully, I had to join Readerville just to access the quote. Another login to remember. Sigh. Oh, and "Sticky Chemical" by Bobby Bare, Jr. just kills me; now playing on iTunes.