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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Full Disclosure, Confessions from the Bottom Shelf.
I cannot believe the unmitigated shit I’ve read during the month of July. I lay blame on: weakness of an addled mind that needs diversions from reality, and the ability to download salacious shit instantly onto my ipad in bed late … Continue reading
Posted in The Bottom Shelf
Tagged a predator priest, chalked up, mummy knew, rob lowe memoirs
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Books-A-Million Minus 30.
The last-ditch deal that would have had Books-A-Million buy 30 Borders‘ stores –saving nearly 1000 jobs – fell to shit today, signaling a final and certain end for all Borders stores from sea to shining sea. Those 30 stores would have … Continue reading
Posted in Bookstore Apocalypse, Uncategorized
Tagged books a million, books amillion borders, borders closing, borders out of business
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least … Continue reading
The Brat Pack Can’t Possibly be This Boring.
A mullet-topped Lowe and idiot Tom Cruise, on top of the world. FULL DISCLOSURE: I read a piece in VANTY FAIR about Rob Lowe that included the first chapter of his newly published memoir. Immediately upon finishing said chapter, I … Continue reading
Posted in Bios and Memoirs
Tagged rob lowe douchbag.rob lowe auotobiography review, rob lowe greedy, rob lowe melisa gilbert, rob lowe sucks
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Bad Dreams.
I read The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner 2 weeks ago and it has infected 70% my dreams since. The odious anti hero is a young man living in scary, pre-Enlightenment Scotland, in the early 18th century. … Continue reading
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Tagged evil doppelganger, james hogg, justified sinner, robert wringhim, the private memoirs of a justified sinner
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A pulp novel I love. Tomboy “The Famous Novel of Juvenile Delinquency”, by Hal Ellison, 1950. buy at alibris
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Tagged hal ellison, tomboy girl gang, tomboy hal ellison, tomboy pulp
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