Year / 2006

by Edward Champion

K00L DUDEZ!

The Bat Segundo Show, a new weekly podcast, will premiere several times this year at 9 PM. And sometimes at 9:01 PM too!

Seeking new or established fiction novelists, real-life memoirists, comic strip graphic novelists, epidermal skin flick directors, cash-concerned money men, love-centric romance novelists, and other interview subjects that encourage such redundant use of language.

Send me logline summations and visit my kool site at:

http://www.edrants.com/segundo

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Bat
Mr. Segundo

(via TEV)

by Edward Champion

Jonathan Ames Alert

Several years ago, I made a deal at a rustic crossroads. A man, clad only in a red velveteen suit, told me that good things would happen under the following proviso: Mention anything Jonathan Ames is involved in and I might — just might — learn how to play decent bluegrass guitar. To this day, my bluegrass skills are shaky at best, although I can play a mean pentatonic riff if you ply me with enough liquor. But I am a man of my word and I still retain some dim hope that I’ll wake up from a scandalous dream involving a few topless librarians with the abilities to outplay Jerry Reed, only to cast aside my Taylor unexpectedly to play second banana to Burt Reynolds in a series of marginal cinematic comedies.

While things have been quiet on the Ames front of late, I’m pleased to report that they haven’t been flatline. A new outlet called The L Magazine has seen fit to publish a Jonathan Ames story called “A Walk Home,” and it involves, of all things, the Gowanus Canal.

by Edward Champion

There’s Also an Raging Middle-Aged Borderline Alcoholic Who Can’t Accept the Fact That He’s No Longer Thirty and Seems to Believe That He’s God’s Gift to Women

Publisher’s Lunch: “David Hasselhoff’s autobiography, MAKING WAKES. written with Peter Thompson, showing “there’s more to The Hoff than great hair and legs that look good while running down a beach,” to Erin Brown at Thomas Dunne Books, for publication in spring 2007, by Kate Hibbert of Hodder & Stoughton UK (NA).”

by Edward Champion

Banging the Tin Drum Harshly

Christopher Hitchens tears Gunter Grass a new one: “‘Let those who want to judge, pass judgment,’ Grass said last week in a typically sententious utterance. Very well, then, mein lieber Herr. The first judgment is that you kept quiet about your past until you could win the Nobel Prize for literature. The second judgment is that you are not as important to German or to literary history as you think you are. The third judgment is that you will be remembered neither as a war criminal nor as an anti-Nazi hero, but more as a bit of a bloody fool.”