"Now, Maizy was a good secretary--a fine secretary."

[larryhammer]

Those of you who who missed reading "Paul Bunyan and the Photocopier" because you couldn't snag a copy of Say ... have you heard this one? can now listen it as podcast (7.5MB download, 10:45 run time) on Escape Pod. Of course, if you have read it, you're still welcome to listen.

Well, the time came Paul Bunyan had a pretty successful thing going with his lumber business. Fact is, the first year his company went public, the stock price doubled, and it went up fifty percent each of the three years after that. Mind you, this made Paul a target for corporate raiders. Why, the battle he had with Bluebeard is a yarn and a half—but that’s another tale. This is the story of what happened when Paul Bunyan’s secretary went on vacation.

A tall tale of corporate America and recalcitrant floor-cameras -- and, of course, a Big Blue Ox.

ETA: A larger excerpt is given by Cory Doctorow in his praises on Boing-Boing.

---L.