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http://www.goodreads.com/bizarrojones

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July 17, 1981 in The United States

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http://www.bizarrojones.com

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Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror

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November 2010

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Kirk Jones was born and raised in New York, about a stone's throw from the Canadian border. Due to his close proximity to our neighbors to the north, he grew up listening to Kim Mitchell, David Wilcox, Tom Cochrane, The Northern Pikes, Pursuit of Happiness and Rush. Most people look at him like a confused beagle when he mentions these performers, except Rush. Usually they just throw stones at him when he mentions Rush, or tell him he's effeminate (they usually aren't so subtle or delicate when saying so) because he likes their synth rock from the 80s better than 2112 and Fly By Night.

He currently serves as an instructor of humanities, teaching various 100-level courses, Creative Writing, and most recently Comic Books as Literature. He talk...more

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Kirk Jones's Blog

It’s that Special Time of Year

. . . where I don’t get much done in terms of blogging. But there’s some cool stuff coming out this summer from friends of mine, and I’ll be posting when possible about their endeavors and how much ass they kick. Now back to my cave so I can engage in computational linguistics studies involving concordance lines featuring words like “fuck,” “shit,” and “piss.”

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Books by Kirk Jones

Average rating: 4.03 · 78 ratings · 39 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Uncle Sam’s Carnival of Copulating Inanimals 3.73 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Long Live The New Flesh: Year Two by William Pauley III (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Garrett Calcaterra (Goodreads Author), David Massengill (Goodreads Author) 4.63 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	A Hacked-Up Holiday Massacre by Bentley Little, Shane McKenzie (Editor), Jack Ketchum 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Summer Thrills by Dorothy Davies (Editor), Eric J. Guignard (Goodreads Author), Kenneth C. Goldman (Goodreads Author) 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Told You So by Jessy Marie Roberts (Editor), Adam Knight, Kirk Jones (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Grundish and Askew

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Wilderness and the American Mind

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Kirk Jones wrote a new blog post: It’s that Special Time of Year It’s that Special Time of Year . . . where I don’t get much done in terms of blogging. But there’s some cool stuff coming out this summer from friends of mine, and I’ll be postin... read more »
May 31, 2012 11:31am · like
Kirk made a comment on his review of Bridge to Terabithia "Thanks, Michael! I had a few pairs of hammer pants and looked at NKOTB cards with my cousins. Pumps! A colleague of mine was just talking about those...more "
May 28, 2012 04:02pm · see review
Kirk liked karen's review of Rode Hard, Put Up Wet: " i am probably going to spoil huge chunks of plot in this review. and i am okay with that. there is no way anyone is reading this book for the articles. this is just about the frequent and inexplicable intercourse between some bipolar couples and t... " Read more of this review »
May 18, 2012 07:20pm · see review
Kirk liked Manny's review of The Language of God: " Francis Collins comes across as such a nice guy! He's clearly a very good molecular biologist - he led the Human Genome Project to a successful conclusion, no mean feat - and he has strong Christian ideals that he's thought about a lot and tried h... " Read more of this review »
May 18, 2012 07:17pm · see review
Kirk made a comment on Liz's review of Neverwhere "I love Gaiman, just like all of my dice-throwing, Magic-playing pals. You should read Sandman next . . . while you listen to the extensive collection...more "
May 17, 2012 08:35pm · see review
Kirk liked Dustin Reade's review of Night Of The Crabs: " MAn was this ever a stupid book! I mean, sure, I knew it wasn't going to be great based on the title, plot line, cover-art and all, but boy howdy did it turn out to be stupid! I mean, at one point, the author refers to the main characters genital... " Read more of this review »
May 15, 2012 04:45pm · see review
Kirk gave to: The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein recommended to Kirk by: Only Jesus can suggest books worthy of my scorn recommended for: Anti-environmentalists, republicans, loggers, assholes read in April, 2012	My rating:
What happens when a male slut with commitment issues hooks up with an insecure lover who can’t move on, or can’t move at all, for that matter? You get Shel Silverstein’s petrified piece of shit (that must be what folks mean when they call this book “...more
May 12, 2012 06:34pm · see review
Kirk gave to: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak recommended to Kirk by: An evil librarian who used to ply us with candy bars to make us read recommended for: Satanists and Hippies read in May, 1985	My rating:
Where the Wild Things Are What's the moral of this story? Some might say Sendack's work is a testament to the unbridled powers of a child's imagination. Others would posit that the true virtue of Where the Wild Things Are stems from the reversal of a...more
May 08, 2012 08:25am · see review
Kirk made a comment on his review of Where the Wild Things Are "Sendak passed away today. He was a good author, in all honesty. "
May 08, 2012 08:24am · see review
Kirk gave to: Beyond the Valley of the Apocalypse Donkeys by Jordan Krall (Goodreads Author) recommended to Kirk by: Friends on Facebook recommended for: fans of bizarro, weird fiction, collectors of the weird read in April, 2012	My rating:
Stick with me here. There's some long-winded exposition, but it all relates directly to this book: I remember my senior year in high school, rummaging through anything I could online to find weird materials to share with my friends. One of the things...more
May 02, 2012 04:37pm · see review

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“The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.”
― Mark Twain

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