A collection of prose poems featuring BBQ sauce collage, kidnapped lyrics, detuned fiddles, coleslaw, horse teeth, police tape, Skoal, 49er kitten ...
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Aug 01, 2009
Mike
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i used to drink a lot of kool-aid and we took our laundry to the laundromat in black trash bags
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Jun 25, 2011
Remember answering machines? They used to come with cassette tapes. Remember those? I remember being obsessed with recording the quintessential answering machine message. I think Seinfeld had an episode about answering machines. Remember Seinfeld? I used to save every single message ever recorded on those tapes and kept them lined up like wounded toy soldiers in a box in my closet. Sometimes I would take them out and listen to the banal salutations and well-wishes of friends, relatives and sales
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Jan 09, 2010
Kevin
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I really liked the weird small town white trash weirdo hip hop vibe of this book. Part of the appeal is trying to figure out what the heck it is. Prose poems? Connected flash fictions? How about a pack of wildly killer sentences and sensory descriptions (the smell of burned rice, meth heads, cheap beer, Burger King sunglasses). It's like if Beck was hired to write the novelization of Gummo. Really cool shit. Seek it out.
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Aug 31, 2009
Erica
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I should mark this book as currently reading since I'm planning to start it again in a few days. I've been a fan of Mike's since 2006 or thereabouts and I love his style. He is the writer I want to be when I grow up. MC Oroville is to be absorbed, really, not simply read, as are most of Mike's stories.
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Sep 15, 2009
Ani
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I interviewed the author and shared what I adored about this piece of word candy: http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/09/08/m...
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