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How this blog got its name
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There was an old picture of Evel Knievel shaking hands with Richard Nixon. I zoomed in on Evel’s left eye a 100x and enhanced it. It was an address. I went to the address. It was a modest, 1970’s style, split level ranch home in the suburbs.
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Inside I found a dead parrot lying on a waterbed. I revived the parrot with some saltines and adrenaline. We became good friends. The parrots name was Randy. One night a few years later while Randy and me played Gin Rummy, he sang me a song about a fire. The title of this blog was never mentioned but I sensed it, and Randy confirmed it by giving me ‘THE LOOK’.
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30 years ago today Philip K. Dick was found unconscious in his apartment in Santa Ana, California as the result of a stroke. He never regained consciousness and died on March 2cnd 1982.
I’m selling some postcards I designed on ebay over the next couple of weeks to celebrate his life, work, and vision. All proceeds go to a great little charity called Read A Story which reads books to kids and them gives them a copy of the book to share with their family and friends.
Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer. So it goes.
I just wanted to gather all the Kilgore Trout books/stories that Kurt Vonnegut wrote, in one place. Might be kinda fun to make fake book covers too.
Pretty cool. Though I am having second thoughts on my 1 star review promotion, that was where I encouraged people to give me a 1 star reviews on Amazon. It did get me 250,000 page views on stumbleupon and got me on Ellen.com which in turn paid for my airplane glue habit… so, que sera sera.
I opened my mail to find Hookers or Cake Vol. II and all of these goodies (although my favorite may be the vampire teeth sealed with a My Pretty Pony sticker—Jade, you’re a sick fuck).
If you aren’t reading Jade Bos, you’re a total loser. Seriously, check it out here and by as many copies as you can. These books are awesome for completely freaking out your friends and family.
Ahhh thanks Scott! I’ve just received your book, Trash and Vaudeville, from Amazon! And I can’t wait to read it to all the neighborhood kids! I’m sure it will be quite an education.
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