Joey Comeau





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Joey Comeau is a Canadian writer. He is best known for his novels Lockpick Pornography and Overqualified, and as co-creator of the webcomic A Softer World (with Emily Horne).

Comeau currently resides in Toronto, Ontario. He has a degree in linguistics. His fourth book, a novel based on Overqualified, was published in 2009.


I made an ebook called "ill touch you with a rifle: youTubers reflect on homosexuality" that you can download here.

But if you don't have an ereader, here's the text:


gays hav nothing to do with football so need for such and ad. football is a mans game!

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all soccer players fans are gay.. hes the fag in this clip.

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Omg I wish that he wasnt gay, heeeeeeeeeeeees soo sexy !!!!!!!!

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Published on January 13, 2012 14:01 • 54 views
Average rating: 4.04 · 2,016 ratings · 317 reviews · 13 distinct works
Overqualified
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 496 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
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Lockpick Pornography
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 380 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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One Bloody Thing After Another
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
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Bible Camp Bloodbath
3.37 of 5 stars 3.37 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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It's Too Late to Say I'm Sorry
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The Girl Who Couldn't Come
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We all got it coming
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Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt
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This is a brilliant and incredibly sharp satire - all wrapped up in the main character's childishly simplistic sexual fantasies. Again and again, while reading this book, you will shake your head in disbelief. But you'll do so with a smile on your fa...more
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The Disciple Of Las Vegas by Ian  Hamilton
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The further adventures of the forensic panty accountant. The author still can't seem to restrain himself from mentioning "panties" every ten or fifteen pages, though he of course spices things up with a bra now and then. I'm pretty sure - though I am...more
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The Water Rat of Wanchai by Ian  Hamilton
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So, here's the thing. This book is fun, but you have to be willing to ignore a couple annoying quirks. The first, which others have mentioned, is the fact that every single time the main character drinks any coffee, it is STARBUCKS VIA brand instant...more
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How to Sharpen Pencils by David Rees
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"Religion... has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever... If someone votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like; everybody will have an argument but nobody feels aggrieved by it. If somebody thinks taxes should go up or down you are free to have an argument about it. But on the other hand if somebody says 'I must [not] move a light switch on a Saturday', you say, 'I respect that'... Yet when you look at it rationally there is no reason why those ideas shouldn't be as open to debate as any other, except that we have agreed somehow between us that they shouldn't be."Douglas Adams
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Animal Man, Vol. 1 by Jeff Lemire
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I enjoyed the Grant Morrison Animal Man books, but they were very clearly "Grant Morrison" books. This series feels more fitting to the character. Here we have an Animal Man book that is strange and horrific and that is completely its own thing. The...more
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“Dear Nintendo, We need a new Mario game, where you rescue the princess in the first ten minutes, and for the rest of the game you try and push down that sick feeling in your stomach that she’s ‘damaged goods’, a concept detailed again and again in the profoundly sex negative instruction booklet, and when Luigi makes a crack about her and Bowser, you break his nose and immediately regret it. When Peach asks you, in the quiet of her mushroom castle bedroom ‘do you still love me?’ you pretend to be asleep. You press the A button rhythmically, to control your breath, keep it even.”
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“I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.”
Joey Comeau, Lockpick Pornography

“I think the best life would be one that's lived off the grid. No bills, your name in no government databases. No real proof you're even who you say you are, aside from, you know, being who you say you are. I don't mean living in a mountain hut with solar power and drinking well water. I think nature's beautiful and all, but I don't have any desire to live in it. I need to live in a city. I need pay as you go cell phones in fake names, wireless access stolen or borrowed from coffee shops and people using old or no encryption on their home networks. Taking knife fighting classes on the weekend! Learning Cantonese and Hindi and how to pick locks. Getting all sorts of skills so that when your mind starts going, and you're a crazy raving bum, at least you're picking their pockets while raving in a foreign language at smug college kids on the street. At least you're always gonna be able to eat. ”
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“All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.”
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”
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“Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.”
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“The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.”
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“I am so wily and feminine that I could live by your side for a lifetime and deceive you afresh each day.”
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Joey Comeau Pooyan wrote: "Hi joey . tnx for accepting friendship. I consider myself your fist fan from Iran!"

Thank you! It's nice to meet you.

Joey


Pooyan Ra Hi joey . tnx for accepting friendship. I consider myself your fist fan from Iran!


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