Ticked-Off Titles

Along with The Hurt Locker, Up In the Air, and Julie & Julia I think you can add Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives to the list of movies I’ll probably never see. The film, even though ostensibly a comedy, concerns three deadly divas taking revenge on the dastards that treated them wrong and it will be shown as part of the Tribeca Film Festival next month.

Speaking of off-the-wall names I had occasion to drop into the Partners and Crime bookstore last week and, among other things, I picked up a free copy of The Bookseller magazine (just because I could). This issue included the list of winners of the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year--and here they are in the order in which they placed:

1. Crocheting Adventures With Hyperbolic Planes by Daina Taimina.
2. What Kind of Bean Is This Chihuahua? by Tara Jansen-Meyer
3. Collectible Spoons of the Third Reich by James A. Yannes
4. Afterthoughts of a Worm Hunter by David Crompton
5. The Changing World of Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Ellen Scherl
and Maria Dubinsky.

Come to think of it that Trannie movie doesn’t sound all that bad.