The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
My greatest fear has come true: Richard Dawkins has stolen the title to my first book, The Greatest Show on Earth. He has stolen it and mangled it at the same time, adding the subtitle: The Evidence for Evolution. Anyone familiar with my agenda knows that I now believe chimps evolved from the human race. Before that, I was a staunch advocate for the theory of Devolution. But my theory had a few problems. I could not explain the superior abstract reasoning, language, introspection, and problem solving skills of chimpanzees, and why they are cuter than the rest of us.
It appears that Mr. Dawkins has beat me to the punch. This is my fault. I was slow to get the 2nd Edition of my book into circulation, where I planned to include pictures (ex-girlfriends, former bosses) and additional documents (illiterate emails and drunken text messages from a real-life alcoholic/Wellbutrin-addict psychotherapist) to support my thesis. I suspect this material will be cleverly presented in Mr. Dawkins’ book. If I see one picture of an ape I’m calling the police. And I should note here that the evolutionary chart I made of certain celebrities, journalists, politicians, and former-coworkers is copyrighted material.
[posted by daniel scott buck]
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PORTLAND AGGRESSIVE! May 28th @ the Ella Street Social Club (Reading Event 7PM)
May 28th
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place
PORTLAND AGGRESSIVE!
An evening of tough love with readings by:
Daniel Scott Buck
Kimberly Warner-Cohen
Jeff Burk
Nora Robertson
Cameron Pierce
Rachel Tatum
Mike Daily
Jennifer Robin
Edward Morris
PLO Report
Kristopher Young (author of Click) is interviewed over at Reading Local. Kimberly Warner-Cohen has a story in the Portland Noir anthology. Carlton Mellick’s new children’s book, The Faggiest Vampire, is out and about. Jeff Burk’s debut novel, Shatnerquake, looks to top Star Trek as this week’s box office hit. And Jaret Ferratusco has a four part series up on his blog, Corpse on Pumpkin. And Mike Daily has a new Gagaku Meat video up on YouTube.
Coming soon: David Agranoff’s Screams from a Dying World.
[posted by Daniel Scott Buck]
GUAPO COMICS PARTY: April 17th from 7PM to 11PM
For more information, visit GuapoComicsAndBooks.com.
Gagaku Meat: The Steve Richmond Story
Gagaku Meat: The Steve Richmond Story is a 32-page, 19,000-word journalism piece written about poet Steve Richmond. The feature article was produced for buk scene 1, a new Charles Bukowski-influenced magazine from Holland.
Gagaku Meat is now available as an 8-1/2″ x 11″ format small press zine. Santa Monica abstract artist and close friend of Richmond, David Garcia, was interviewed for Gagaku Meat, as well as 20 poets, writers and publishers: Gerald Locklin, FrancEyE (Frances Smith, mother of Bukowski’s daughter, Marina), Al Berlinski, John Martin, A.D. Winans, Kurt Nimmo, Linda King, Nila NorthSun, Richard Peabody, Mat Gleason, Ron Androla, S.A. Griffin, Alan Kaufman, Jeffrey Weinberg, Don Wentworth, Ed Smith, Alan Catlin, Billy Childish, Pat deTurk, Ben Pleasants.
Three poets contributed exclusive sidebar poems about Richmond: Jim Chandler, Todd Moore and Neeli Cherkovski (Cherkovski’s is titled, “You Were Angry”). Two weeks ago, Steve Richmond told David Garcia he is “enthralled” about Gagaku Meat. Available for $6 postage-paid direct from Mike Daily on the multi-media Steve Richmond tribute site, Mr. Viced Honest:
Available now from Powell’s Books
Preview video of Gagaku Meat on YouTube