News You Can Bruise for 2002 April 29

Sumana (whom--now it can be told--I am dating) and I have gradually amassed a list of disturbing slash concepts. It's a common enough trope that I'm starting up a new occasional feature, augmenting Disturbing Search Requests with Disturbing Slash Concepts (note that there is overlap between the two). Sumana sent me a partial list of such DSC we've accumulated:

• News From Lake Wobegon slash
• Amir Chitra Katha slash
• National monument slash, eg. the statue of Lincoln from the Lincoln Memorial gettin' it on with the Statue of Liberty
• Axis of Evil slash
• Sumana actually saw this mentioned (as a concept, not as a story) somewhere: slash involving Oprah Winfrey, Tom Selleck, and Julia Roberts
• Finally, in a Modern Humorist-esque move, Sumana proposes "random slash that isn't fanfic at all! 'That guy who runs the taco stand and the girl at the coffee cart.'"

I hope you sleep well tonight.