Justin Sirois's Blog, page 38

So Say the Waiters - "our only common enemy is the economy"

A Walt Whitman spouting, poet/genius who is a member of the 12 o'clock guyz just rode into this new series of books with his older girl cousin. They are about to tare shit apart. 
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Mike Young's blurb for The Heads of My Family, My Friends, My Colleagues

"When you realize the new Old Spice ads might be working on you, when you're trying to split the difference between desk jobs and shoulder licks, when you're old enough for raunch to go holy but still young enough for GIFs to go infinite—that's when you know you're in the LoS of Justin Sirois's barking and bounding poems. The Heads are singing to the super ugly animals that pace the medians. They are twitching to put back some magic. They are winking that the word "okay" is the most useful wo...

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Falcons on the Cat by Jean "Moebius" Giraud

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So Say the Waiters book 2 almost done

Okay, okay. I think I've entered this fever dream where a punk rock bartender girl pretty much bleeds whiskey. If you looked up "quarter life crisis" her bruised face would be in the dictionary. And then there's this white-collar working stiff who is in the worst financial and emotional predicament of his life. Pathetic would be a real understatement. And now they've both completely taken over my mind.   
Pretty soon they will meet under the weirdest circumstances I...

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So Say the Waiters title treatment 1

3:am Magazine review of Falcons on the Floor by Declan Tan

Amazing review in 3am Magazine.
"Sirois’ voice is so unremittingly steady and even, each line whispering into the next, that occasionally his attempts to ratchet tension trail through almost unnoticed...
Apart from its obvious value in and of itself as a frequently striking piece of prose, Sirois’ novel is also notable for its perspective. After an unrelenting slew of movies and books telling the invasion story from American or British or Western points of view, this is a narrative that does at...

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