Thursday, March 20, 2014

UPDATE: Sisyphus Transcription Project

Great news, all. The day is finally here! With your help (and you do it all for free!) I have completed the entire transcription of the audiobook of John Paul Sartre's [ETA: whoops that other white existentialist dude's] Myth of Sisyphus.

I can't tell you how excited I am that this transcript will soon be listed on Amazon in both kindle and print version! I could not have done it without your help.

And you do it all for free.

All I need to do now is print and paste all of your transcript blocks onto a piece of cardboard so that I see them clearly when I retype the text into Word 95. After saving the file to floppy disk I will take it to a GENIUS I found on craigslist (who, thankfully, does accept payment in the form of cash donated by Shakestownies) and who said that he is pretty sure he can transfer the file to a hard disk and then have his cousin put it onto a CD and then a flash drive. At that point it will be edited for errors by a carrier pigeon who will then drop it into the middle of the ocean where it will be caught by a team of dolphins that will swim it over to the publisher, who *fingers crossed* does not know how to search for already existing books on Amazon.

And all of this just in time for the boulder to roll back down the hill.

Trust me, this is how publishing works. So (this can only be where all of this is headed right?) start saving your cash now so that you can prove you are a social justice warrior by supporting Shakestown by performing the radical act of purchasing already existing books produced by your own labor and the labor of your fellow cult members.

12 comments:

  1. Judith, you are A-MAAAAAA-ZING!! (I apologize if my emphatic spelling of amazing causing problems for anyone with visual processing disorders).

    I don't know HOW this important feminist work could have gotten out there to everyone without your tireless, thankless supervision of your army of volunteers. You totally deserve to copyright and royalty rights on this material from now until INFINITY [CN: abstract math concept].

    And you are such a computers GENIUS. I had no idea how complicated it was to write down words that someone said — I'm in awe.

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  2. I'm going to start petitioning Amazon to let me pre-order and pre-pay for this work. I am glubbing at the thought of what we all--ESPECIALLY YOU--have done here! Cocktail forks are powerful!

    Love,
    yahoo_yak

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    1. (CN: death, water, Golden Girls, sponges, bathing, expressing gratitutde)
      I thought "glub" was what you say when you're underwater? Like The Golden Girls where Blanche says "Thank you baby, glub glub glub." after explaining how she died receiving a spongebath?

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  3. P.S. I have a paperback copy of The Myth of Sisyphus by my bed (barely read), and I plan to go home tonight and burn it in anticipation of the arrival of my transcribed audiobook copy by Judith Shakestown! I'm sure your version is much better.

    love,
    yahoo_yak

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    1. Fret not, the Shakestown Edition comes with a free set of Shakestown sanctioned matches, along with your very own boulder and a cocktail fork inscribed with the phrase "And she does it all for free."

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    2. There must have been a mistake in the Shipping department, all I got was a vulture that ate my liver and a mysterious box covered with Content Notes that I'm never supposed to open.

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    3. Hint: The last one is inside the box, and it says, "[CN: Hope]"


      yahoo_yak

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    4. A gold mockingjay pin?

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  4. I have updated the original post, entirely of my own accord, in response to a dear emailer who points out that Sartre did not actually write Myth of Sisyphus. So is THAT why I couldn't find it on Amazon!?!?! Son of a Judith, what a waste of fucking time...I mean, still buy this book because it is your feminist duty, as supporting the shakestown edition is a radical act.

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    1. No, no, Judith, it's not a waste of time! You yourself have explained above why this edition was necessary. Stupid old Monsieur Camus---a CISHET MAN, I might add!---never gave his readers matches or a fork or anything. I don't know if your writing has ever inspired a Cure song, but other than that, I think you are miles above Le Camus in stature.

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    2. btw, that was me, yahoo_yak.

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  5. I desktop publish all my own stuff, in that I can't afford paper so I just write on my desk with a crayon.

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