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Dave Eggers' The Wild Things is available for preorder, in regular hardcover and
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M c S W E E N E Y ' S B R A I N   E X P L O D E R : H O W   Y O U   G E L L I N ' ? EDITED BY CARLTON DOBY - - - - INSTRUCTIONS: Match the description of each individual with the specific manner in which they might be gellin'. 1. Urbane reader of droll food column. 2. Pittsburgh-area high schooler who scored a 1390 on the SAT: 3. Knighted performer who, in the twilight of his career, is delighted to discover his sexual orientation is no longer an issue. 4. Fact checker at Entertainment Weekly who has compiled the index for her boss's unauthorized biography of Debra Messing. 5. Woman who is frequently told of her resemblance to the actress Susan St. James.   A. "Gellin' like Carnegie Mellon." B. "Gellin' like the television wife of McMillan." C. "Gellin' like 'Grace (comma) Will and'." D. "Gellin' like Sir Ian McKellen." E. "Gellin' like Calvin Trillin."   Now you tell us how Liberian President Charles Taylor might be gellin', and send your answers to our McSweeney's Brain Exploders editor, Carlton Doby, at carltondoby@hotmail.com. Best answers will appear here next week. - - - - Want to contribute to the McSweeney's Weekly Brain Exploder? Just send your quizzes, puzzles, or other brain exploders to carltondoby@hotmail.com.     OTHER McSWEENEY'S STORIES: - - - - My Favorite Quarters By B.R. Cohen An Open Letter to the New York Times Style Section Photo Retoucher By Michelle Arenas My Hidden Agenda By Ben Greenman Making Ketchup is Too Hard By Justin Dullum Excerpts From My Third-Grade Journal By Ed Page

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