Good Source of Existential Despair

July 7, 2015 7:13 PM

Authors as breakfast cereal mascots by Kate Gavino, creator of last night's reading, which is a collection of drawings and quotes from readings she attends in New York.
posted by betweenthebars (9 comments total)

This is missing Joorge Loois Boorges's Froot Loops
Ingredients: Sugar, corn flour blend, Suckling pigs, wheat flour, whole grain oat flour, Stray dogs, oat fiber, Mermaids (or Sirens), soluble corn fiber, Those drawn with a very fine camel hair brush, contains 2% or less of Fabulous ones, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, salt, red 40, Those that belong to the emperor, natural flavor, blue 2, turmeric color, yellow 6, Those that tremble as if they were mad, annatto color, blue 1, Embalmed ones, BHT for freshness, and Those that, at a distance, resemble flies.
posted by oulipian at 7:44 PM on July 7, 2015 [8 favorites]

DeLill-Os: A convergence of grains. Dense anatomies of crystalline fructose. The cereal that justifies itself.
posted by Lorin at 8:06 PM on July 7, 2015 [2 favorites]

Hunter S. Thompson's Cocaine Frosted Peyote-os, with 8 Essential Vitamins Plus Mescaline. Kids: Free Nixon-shaped Roach Clip Inside!
posted by mosk at 8:16 PM on July 7, 2015

I love this.
posted by not that girl at 8:33 PM on July 7, 2015

Carodos-O's! A full day's serving of Metafilter in each bite!
posted by Pope Guilty at 8:41 PM on July 7, 2015

DFW one hits a false note for me.
posted by Segundus at 8:56 PM on July 7, 2015

Pynchon Puff Pieces.
posted by Splunge at 5:34 AM on July 8, 2015 [1 favorite]

Pynchon Puff Pieces.
posted by Splunge at 8:34 AM on July 8 [+] [!]

No one really knows or understands what they actually taste like, and require the companion berries and milk to make sense of the flavor.
posted by Thistledown at 6:40 AM on July 8, 2015 [2 favorites]

Rice Kafkas: Snap, Crackle, Pest
posted by GrapeApiary at 8:06 AM on July 8, 2015