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Exquisite Corpse, Fantasy Junkyard Sports, and The After Hours Shopping Mall

It's an idea I've been playing with long enough. I was hoping maybe I could play it with you.

The idea: Fantasy Junkyard Sports.

My interpretation: you know those fantasy sports and leagues and deals where you pick your ideal team based out of all the players in all the teams currently playing the sport you're fantasizing about...? So, I figure, maybe Fantasy Junkyard Sports doesn't have to be anything like that at all. Maybe they should be more like games of Exquisite Corpse where an image (graphic or verbal or both) is built, one part at a time - the idea being that when part B is added, you don't necessarily know what part A actually looks like. I wrote about a related game called "Redondo." The web abounds with links to exquisitely corpse-like games - all being somehow wonderfully junkyardly in their essence.

So how about this for the start of a Fantasy Junkyard Sports fantasy:

Let's call it: The After Hours Shopping Mall Golf Club.

OK. So. I'll start.

"It was 3 a.m. at the Lasthope Mall. Eighty people, ranging in age from 17-62, carrying PVC pipe and tennis balls, have assembled inside the mall, mingling meanderingly in front of the shuttered GAP store."

Your turn.

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Blogger Bernie said...

Funspotter Noise E. Piranha pointed out that the "The After Hours Shopping Mall" idea may be exquisite, but insufficiently corpse-like. Why? Do you really want me to tell you? If you do, see my next comment.

 
Blogger Bernie said...

See, to be classically corpse-like, the next player should only see the last part of what the previous player wrote or drew. Not the entire thing. Then it becomes more like one of those story-making games where people sit in a circle, the first person starts a story, the next continues, and on and on.

 

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