Tuesday, August 01, 2006
CROSS-PROMOTION, or SMQ HAS NO SHAME
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Off the presses and on the market in a matter of days, it's Here Come The Irish, a wonky contribution to the towering typhoon of Notre Dame hype set to crescendo over the coming month in anticipation of ND's inevitably underwhelming, eke-it-out victory at Georgia Tech on Sept. 2, to which SMQ his own self contributed a selection of short previews of the Domers' dozen '06 opponents. These wound up significantly less categorical than the increasingly wordy forecasts that have largely consumed the past four months on this space, and with fewer typos thanks to actual spellchecking and the editorial eye of Maple Street Press boss and ND grad James/Jim Walsh. They may also be read safely by children (though not understood).
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Gaze upon the awesome power eminating from my mere index finger, young Quinn. Absorb it. Allow yourself to be consumed by it, to become one with it, and it with you. Give yourself over to it. Feel the force. Listen to its commands. Heed its call: Destroy, my son. Destroy.
How, one may ask, did a Southern protestant whose Irish affiliations extend no further than that werid kid with a Notre Dame sharktooth cap whose house he went over to on a single harrowing occasion in 1993 wind up in a magazine spearheaded by Irish-type folks from the Midwest and major metro death sprawl areas of the Northeast who have probably grew up speaking in sharp, barking accents and at least in part gripping rosary beads? Well, they asked, mainly, and also asked Irish blogging luminaries Michael Kurinsky, Jay Barry and Pat Mitsch of The Blue-Gray Sky and Brian Stouffer from House That Rock Built, along with less-qualified contributors including a PhD in economics, the guy who introduced "on-base percentage" as an official major league statistic, actual professional and award-winning writers for actual publications you have actually read, a fourth-year medical student published in for-real scholarly journals and a guy who "works for a woman who manages some actors." And SMQ! OMG WTF!!! =-P
Anyway, SMQ's meager profit in this matter is secured, but enthusiastic readers are nevertheless encouraged to consider ordering their very own glossy, super high-quality, groundbreaking, utterly indispensible and possibly talismanic copy of Here Come The Irish today!
And donate to Orson, too, while the credit card is out. He's workin' it over there.
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