12.27.2002

i've got porno

as noted in the sidebar, i'm reading "porno" by irvine welsh and it's got the same slang and vocal thickness of welsh's seminal "trainspotting". my brother really picked a good one when he decided to get me a book for christmas. i don't read as much as i used to and when i do it's mostly online documentation or o'reilly books.

i finished palahniuk's "lullaby" [warning: horrible flash based site ahoy.] a month back and i think after this i'm going to pick up the new dave eggers book "you shall know our velocity" even if it has had mixed reviews.

i think perhaps the best part of "porno" is still the cover - which looks like a blow up doll peering out from behind celophane. rubber nipples poking out of the bottom of the circle, mouth agape waiting to be violated by a lonley soul on too cold a night. that cover gets all kinds of stares on the bus. a toothless and disheveled homeless man stared at it for a solid twenty minutes, prodding and imploring the people around him to look at it. a wild grin across his old perverted face. on the flip side of the coin a jehovah's witness turned away in disgust and stopped trying to peddle a copy of the watchtower to me. so that was a bonus...
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