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Hong Kong Masterpiece Theater Presents:
Atlas Shrugged,
with Michelle Yeoh as Dagny Taggart, Chow Yun Fat as Hank Rearden, and Jet Li
as John Galt.
A
Separate Anthem by "Emily."
The Confessions of
Ayn Rand "is quite timely in view of her recent Beatification and
of the consequent revival of the Rand cult."
Truly heroic, The Abridged Atlas
Shrugged is about two pages long.
If ____ Had
Written Atlas Shrugged gives synopses where Atlas Shrugged is
written by other authors.
Oscar Shrugged,
a recounting of The First Galt's Gulch Film Festival.
The Floating Head
of Ayn Rand: One woman. One movement. One head. One destiny.
Closely related is the
Ayn Rand
Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval - Your sure sign of a rational product!
Objectivst
Pickup Lines: "Wanna let me come over and break your fireplace?"
Value
and Fact by Peter Leonard, originally published in the April 1, 1996 issue of The
Philosophical Activist.
Ayn
Rand's Cookbook Marginalia: "Ayn Rand did not take food as a
'metaphysical given.' She regarded food as man-made. Food, she realized, is
something that has to be produced."
The
"Benevolent Rape" Scene? is a re-working of the famous rape scene from
The Fountainhead
The
Semi and the Butcher answers the question which has plagued philosophers and the
general public for centuries: "Why did the chicken cross the road?"
The
25 Most Inappropriate Things An Objectivist Can Say During Sex
needs no explanation.
Thanks Kaustuv
Objectifism, an
enthusiastic site whose goal is "to make everyone in the world to be
Objectifists by the year 2005."
The One
with
the Fountainhead is a parody of (what else?) The
Fountainhead modelled around a two-part episode of Friends.
Forum 2000 frequently makes
fun of Objectivism and their Ayn Rand SOMAD. After a brief hiatus, Forum
2000 has been reborn as Forum
3000 under the rule of the Ayn Rand SOMAD. (Forum 2000
also redirects to Forum 3000 now)
Andrej Bauer shows us how to
become an Objectivist
in ten easy steps. Andrej is also the theoretical father of
SOMADs and the chief architect of Forum
2000.
Features
of the Objectivist Operating System is one of the Topbot Lists
from Scott
Davies's Goof-off Page.
An
Objectivist
Party Game. "[Current leader of the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI)]
Leonard Peikoff said that when he was first learning Objectivism, he was
helped by playing this game." The object is "draw a connection
between two concepts you pull randomly out of a hat."
A
parody of The
Fountainhead, starring Skull Force. "I'm going to work in a
quarry upstate. And you're lucky I don't take your spine with me as a
souvenir!"
Charles
Atlas Shrugged, a comic from Brunching Shuttlecocks, one of the
web's premier humor sites.
Leonard
Peikoff: Who Needs Him?, a collection of stories detailing the
foibles of the leader of ARI, from Chris Wolf's
What's REALLY
Wrong With Objectivism?
Atlas
Danced, a short CMU in-jokish parody of Atlas Shrugged.
Properly mocks Rand's tacky phrasing and stilted sense of rhetoric.
Atlas
Shr, a glimpse into alternate universes where Ayn Rand's books are
all 400 pages shorter.
Sewer, Gas &
Electric is a novel by Matt Ruff which is a rough parody of
Atlas Shrugged.
Thanks
mhock
An Open Letter To
Ayn Rand speaks for itself.
Thanks
mhock
The Phatmaster
(44 of 53) is Martin Hock's self-proclaimed "crappy comic parody"
of Atlas Shrugged. There are
other
references to Rand in his comics, none flattering.
Objectivism
and Everything(2)
Thanks
kaustuv
Libertarian
Man dates a Randian girl, on Attack Cartoons.
Objectivity
'N' Me: A True Confession A confession of an Objectivist's secret
sins, by Scott Ryan.
Scott Ryan has lots more Objectivist mockery, like
FACTISM,
The Joyous, Life-Affirming, Benevolent, Liberating, Rational Philosophy of
Novelist Arna de Ramm, and
The
Pumpkinhead. Also, he has a short review of
The Giant
Treasury of Objectivist Humor ("Q: Why won't Leonard Peikoff
wear a digital watch? A: Because he's a second-hander").
A Fairy
Tale is a subtle story about Ayn Rand which doesn't
make any references to her at all.
Thanks Bob Wallace
Bob The Angry
Flower, which I found posted on a CMU bboard.
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