The Gothic Archies

The Tragic Treasury (2006) A

1. Freakshow
2. We Are the Gothic Archies
3. Crows

The Tragic Treasury, Stephin Merritt's funniest project since 69 Love Songs, collects his work from the Lemony Snicket audio books. "Freakshow" is a series of unfortunate insults: "Real people question how/Someone took a lobster's face and put it on a cow". The nonstandard grammar in "We Are the Gothic Archies" is just as freaky. Deadpan with a capital "dead".