Last week Laughing Squid featured a new blog called Yelping with Cormac that writes Yelp reviews in the style of author Cormac McCarthy. I've only ever read The Road--which I dare to say falls on my Favorite Books Ever list--but even from that single novel, I am fairly certain in saying that his rhetoric is unique among contemporary writers. The weight of his diction counterbalances the brevity of text itself; he is a skilled curator of words.
And as the "What" page of the blog says, "The real Cormac McCarthy is out there somewhere pulling a novel out of a horse skull." Nicely put.
Anyway, Cormac-McCarthy-as-Yelp-Reviewer is quite entertaining for obvious reasons. All are written by EDW Lynch. Here's one of my favorites so far:
PAPALOTE MEXICAN GRILL
Mission - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | A dusty home at the end of a road, NM
Two stars
The young cowboy lies in the afternoon sun, gut shot. The bitter tang of cordite and blood mingles in his mouth. In his hand, a pearl handled revolver, still warm. He lies propped against the lone cottonwood. A mile distant, dust trails mark a coming reckoning. Three riders, maybe more.
His eyes shift upward to a circling vulture, a sentinel of inevitability. The blood is almost black. He has another hour at most. The pain comes in waves, lingering like the burn of bad whiskey. One bullet left in the Colt.
Something as yet unheralded has died when a quesadilla comes on a spinach tortilla.
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