More Reviews and Self-Promo
With each post, this thing smacks more and more of the self-serving reasons I ignore your blog.
Stop if you think you’ve heard this one before…no, not the greatest Smiths song, but the little bit of knowledge that I’ve got a rather large project in my life, and this rather large project is in the home stretch. If you like to read words without opening extra browsers, I’m referring to my Husker Du biography. If you like to follow links to Amazon.com pre-order pages for books with working cover-art, shoot on over here. Whoops, I hate it when someone gives me the same gift two birthdays in a row, too. If I remember correctly, it happened with Sorry (the board game) five times between grades 2 and 6. I must confess, this book has taken on several, if not numerous, “identities” in my life over the past twenty-five, twenty-six…wait a second, what am I doing writing this go-nowhere post? I need to start writing this book!! So Metal Circus is the first point on the “Husker Du Timeline”, right? When did that come out? 1988? Shit, I guess I should try to get these dudes on the horn. Ok, I’ll start with the keyboard player. “Directory Assistance, I need the number for [LOUD BEEPING NOISE], please. Thank you, ma’am, and I can’t wait to visit your beautiful lakes when I break from some rigorous on-location research several years from now! I’m not sure when I’ll be ready for that manner of….what? Oh, of course, some outsourcing in action! Not sure I’ll ever be writing about a band from India…I can’t hear myself think when that racket is playing. Kudos on the good eats, though! Hello?” Ok, let’s try that key-tickler…Shiite Militia! That guy did not like me at all! Maybe I’m not cut out for this book-writin’ beeswax!”
Could it be that this type of GONZO NON-PARTICIPATORY JOURNALISM can be considered my strong point?
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