Frenzied Theatre

Every so often I stop by Amazon’s Mechanical Turk just to see what’s going on, how people are using the software, and maybe complete a task and earn a few cents.  I just found this gem available, paying ten dollars if you can complete it in the next eight hours.

You will write an entry for my personal weblog, as me, about events between March 8 and March 15. The entry will be 750 – 1000 words long. In this entry I will wonder what it means to be “a real writer of the American west.” I will travel to Missoula, Montana and drink a lot with famous writers there. One of them will take me back to his house and be very loving and tender, even though he is heterosexual, and he will immerse me in a vat of sweet liquid, maybe honey. He will talk to me about drum circles and hunting and confess some terrible thing he once did to Louise Erdrich. While I am in Montana, I will sound really gruff and intellectual. I will drive drunk and reveal a secret relationship I had with a famous dead poet there. I will pledge to change the way I write and I’ll walk naked through the Missoula airport, for some really admirable idealistic reason, in support of oppressed people, for example. The entry will be 750 – 1000 words long.