satire
May 24, 2009
- James M. Gaitis © 2009 Don’t get me wrong. I highly respect Edgar Allen Poe (even if I don’t like his football team) and I’ve always been a great fan of The Raven. Hell, I still can recite the first four or five verses of The Raven verbatim. And I once could recite the entire work from beginning to end without mistake and without a single stumble. But nevermore. That was a long time ago, ...
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May 20, 2009
- How do you feel about derision? I don’t mean what do you think about me coming round your place and being rude to you. We can do that, too, if you like, but I was thinking rather more of derision as a motor of conversation and writing. I ask because I am occasionally reproached for ridicule, an allegation that makes me a tad uneasy.I don’t mind being ridiculous, which is just as well, all ...
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May 18, 2009
May 15, 2009
- It may be that I might be the begetter of a new literary genre: http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/james_gaitis_the_nations_highest_honor/C39/L39/
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May 13, 2009
- INSUFFICIENT MATING MATERIALJust because the high handed hero of FORCED MATE decreed that his sharp-tongued, scandalous, fashionista sister (the one who made a film of herself having sex with an unsuitable stranger) should be married did not mean that the Royal shotgun wedding would go off without a hitch.Indeed, when the bride saw the condition that her groom was in as he was frogmarched up the ...
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April 27, 2009
- The book trailer for The Wonderful Demise of Benjamin Arnold Guppy is up for the award for most intriguing trailer at The New Covey Trailer Awards (it's entry number 3). I'd be much obliged if everyone in the world could vote for it, but I realise that I'll have to settle for only half that number, tee hee! In case you haven't seen it before, it can be viewed here. I'd offer to pay you, but ...
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April 26, 2009
April 24, 2009
- One of the books we publish where I work is the Bible, aka the Good Book, the Message, the Word, etc. I work for Rupert Murdoch, so there is no doubt about why we are publishing the Bible—to make money. The Bible also has something to do with religion, I know, but faith is not really what we are concerned with when we think about new editions.This morning we were looking at colors for some ...
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April 24, 2009
- Reading the headlines lately about President Obama releasing information about severe interrogation techniques, among which were the more insidious; such as waterboarding, apprarently approved by Ms Rice while in office and having just signed a petition I received from George Soros foundation, I find myself thematically back a decade when I was struggling to give voice to an incalculably ...
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April 5, 2009
- A while back, some nice folks posted questions for Ben and Pat Guppy here. An undercover agent was sent in, posing as a talent-spotter for a seaside variety show, and here's what she found out:Questions for Pat Guppy:Q: Pat, what was your favorite thing about Benjamin? A: Nobody could prune a bush quite like my Benjamin. He spent hours, nay days, tending to bushes all over the neighbourhood. ...
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