The Norm Macdonald Twitter Anthology

A warm welcome to the new followers that found the anthology through a twitter thread! Only one but quite relevant update this month contributed by a kind internet norm enthusiast: On Based On A True Story - a very insightful read!

As always, please feel free to reach out through the email in the About section if you’ve managed to catch any of Norm’s work that isn’t on the website yet. Happy that we can all celebrate Norm’s literary genius together!

What? An update from Norm Twitter Anthology? Surely you’re hallucinating! Perhaps you’ve ascended into the afterlife and this is all some post-mortem vision. Anyways.

In the wake of recent events, the addition of the following:

• To Notable Quotes: On OJ Simpson, On Literature
• To Short Stories and Essays: The Great Depression

Working on:

• creating a Wayback Machine backup for all pages in the anthology
• doing a second chronological runthrough through tweet archive
• some finnicky CSS formatting

In an aside, its hard to believe it’s been more than a year.

The following additions were made:

• Major Jokes section reformatting, and following sections added: 2013 Short-Form Jokes, 2016 Jokes, 2016 Democratic National Convention
• To poetry: No. 4 & No. 9 (thanks to Ryan for contributing!), Untitled No. 1
• To short stories and essays: On #LateLateNormNorm

The following additions were made:

To Short Stories & Essays:

• The Pacific
• Oakalla Is Gone

The following additions were made:

• To Notable Quotes: On Compassion, On Fullness
• To Stories: The Voices
• To Poetry: Second Death

The following additions were made:

• To Short Stories & Essays: So-Slow and Swinemeat: Parts 1-4
• To Poetry: Randy Howard

The following additions were made to Short Stories & Essays:

• On Trump and Comedy
• At A Crossroads

Working on:

• Formatting more short stories
• An archival spreadsheet with dates, secondary sources, and content

Hello friends. Unfortunately, grad school has been too much, and I’ll have to take somewhat of a hiatus for now. I’ll be continuing work behind the scenes at a snail’s pace and will also be checking the twitter anthology email on a daily basis, so feel free to reach out! I’m always looking for collaborators so if you’d like to have a hand in putting the anthology together, that would be immensely appreciated and your work would be rightfully credited.

In lieu of my foreseen absence, I’d like to post some of Dylan Macdonald’s (Norm’s son’s) writing! From what I understand, Dylan has a PhD in Rhetoric and has a lot of published work online! Please check out some of his stuff below:

What Will Happen to Flowers When You Die

Poetry By Dylan Macdonald

She Has Brown Eyes, Brown Hair, and Freckles

I’m sure his deep passion for literature and poetry has made his father proud.

I’ll keep posting here as updates continue to roll in!

Best,

Norm Twitter Anthology

The following was added:

• To Short Stories: The Life and Death of Gertrude Dash, Ben At The River

To do:

• The long-avoided Jokes section reformat

The following changes were made:

• Added to Short Stories: Steve Shuster, Garry Shandling, The Grocery Store
• Added to Poetry: Proverbs
• Added to Notable Quotes: On Bombing
• On an unrelated note, still struggling to find a good way to reformat the Jokes section

To work on this week:

• Major reformatting and additions to Jokes section
• Possibly add Billie Jean King story
• Steve Shuster tribute

The following changes were made:

• Added to short stories: The Hard Man, Arrow Flight 1285, The My Lai Massacre, The Holy Man, Danny
• Added the Remember section in short stories to categorize war-related and tragedy-related stories posted within a close timeframe in December 2012

Will be working on compiling and putting up the following:

• bar fight story from Feb 2018
• additional war stories sent in by NosferatusDemeanor
• additional 2011-2013 jokes sent in by anonymous user

Kind of apprehensive for the big day, hopefully we can reach a wide audience. The rate of uploads will probably slow down a little from here out.

In good news, we’re officially on the Norm Macdonald subreddit menu (under Norm Content)! In the meantime, please enjoy cheese Norm.

The following changes were made:

• Added to notable quotes: On Bob Einstein, On Humility
• Added to short stories: The Great War, Corporal Leo Major, Big Bill, The PGA Championship
• Moved to poetry: Swings, Forgetting
• Added to poetry: I Come From A Place, He Drowned In Mud, Forest Fire, Untitled
• Added to jokes: Miscellaneous Jokes, Things I Am Thankful For, Day-vorces
• Added an update log section
• CSSed links into a vertical table format, moved update posts from the home page into the update log section
• Corrected irritating font problem - should be all Times New Roman now

Added the following:

• To short stories and essays: The Knocker, Swings
• To jokes: Six Long-Form Jokes From Two Days In 2013: Voice Throwin’; The Hunters; An Englishman, an Irishman, And a Scotsman; Phil, Jim, And Bob; The Gravy Ladle; Gramps On The 405
• Added a poetry section

Added the following to the anthology:

• Jokes section: Oscars 2011 and 2014 live tweets, April Fools
• The following short stories: Picture of a Troubled Man, Meeting Harold Ramis, Pray for Moncton, Two of the Funniest People in the World, A Week I Will Not Forget, Accumulations, Samuel or Sam, Big Pete’s Totem Pole, Billy Larouche, The Farm, Lenny, But The Man Was Too Trusting, Transcript of a Conversation With a Psychiatrist, The Three Wisemen, A Great Guy, Roseanne, Forgetting
• The following notable quotes: On Dreams, On Insomnia, On Faith, On The Enlightenment, On Miracles, On Loss
• Added an About page