David S. Atkinson posted a truly wonderful review of Shenanigans! on Goodreads.com. I am humbled by his kind words!
I’ve heard that by the time Bukowski was really into the swing of things as a writer he had stopped reading much of anything because he did not feel that most of what he came across had life. It felt dead and, as such, was worthless. I can’t really say for sure because I didn’t know old Buk’, but I believe he would have felt very differently about the writing in Shenanigans! If there was ever writing with life, Shenanigans! is it.
In some cases, I mean this quite literally. The writing in “Contemptibly, A Hair” blasts out of the page with more energy than a hyperactive toddler on meth, though with much more pleasurable results. It dances, it spins, it screams. In short, it is the language equivalent of class ten rapids.
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Today it happened. I received an otherwise wholly unassuming little black book in the mail today: my advance review copy (ARC) of my upcoming ‘collectio[novella]’ Shenanigans! Of course, after opening the envelope, I felt compelled to snap a few quick iPhone photos to share with friends and a seemingly infinite number of Internet denizens! For whatever number of likely capricious and inconsequential reasons, I feel a great deal more–I dunno–authorial today than, say, for instance, yesterday, or really any day that came before that. Anyway, the pictures suck but you get the point.
1) Cracking the cover, 2) The cover itself, 3) First page of the TOC, 4) Officially official writerly–type-stuff like ISBN and Library of Congress #s
Bulls on Parade
“…just feed the war cannibal animal I /
walk tha corner to tha rubble that used to be a library line /
up to the mind cemetery now…
What we don’t know keeps tha contracts alive an movin’ /
They don’t gotta burn tha books they just remove ’em!!”
We’ve addressed this before, but SOPA is some serious bullshit you should NOT be OK with.
Read on (via Mashable):
This is one aspect of SOPA This means that YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, Gmail, Dropbox and millions of other sites would be “Internet sites…dedicated to theft of U.S. property,” under SOPA’s definition. Simply providing a feature that would make it possible for someone to commit copyright infringement or circumvention (see: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0) is enough to get your entire site branded as an infringing site.