Books (Because Required Shopping Season)
Now that almost all the Halloween candy around the country has been devoured — its wrappers joining all the decorations and costumes stampeding towards the landfills — people's thoughts turn to the celebration of the year-end Triumph of Consumerism, a mere seven weeks away!
[Oh but wait . . . let's take a moment to acknowledge that other upcoming event, The Feast of the Holy Glutton, which is a big part of this "holiday season".
Y'know — that special day less than three weeks away, when an estimated 88% of Americans will consume Thanksgiving turkey; totaling 46 million fewer birds!]
While 46 million birds are cooking, Santa will arrive at the end of the multi-hour Macy's advertisement disguised as a parade, to proclaim the beginning of the reason for the season — Gifting! (Well Shopping.)
Anyway, dear readers. . .
Don't get them socks! Get them books!
Buy them, read them, give them to your friends.
"DEATH by search engine" — short story by AleXander Hirka — Ltd Ed. of 100 2017 | eBay
First Edition (Limited to 100) — 8 pages - self-published - © 2017 — numbered, signed. “Death by Search Engine” takes our fascination with and terror of death and playfully unknots and reknots the spiky, unmanageable threads of our one future universal experience.
"JUST RUNAWAYS" Fragments of Letters Home 1970/71 — AleXander Hirka — Ed. 200 | eBay
JUST RUNAWAYS. The story begins on 8 February 1970 when the runaways leave New York City - the author fleeing the Selective Service draft, his girlfriend Gail an abusive father - and ends, with a door open to an unknown future, in March 2017.
And for those of you who have advanced (devolved?) to reading ebooks, here is a really exciting new book by my life/art partner Tammy.
Click > HERE < to read about — or buy — via Barnes & Noble. 105 pages.
I'm old skool and all the e-something confuses me. You'll need a free Nook app on your phone or sign up at B&N for online digital reading to read it. (Great book — worth the effort!) but y'all are young and modern and will figure it all out.
The basket, now decorated in red, green, and turkey feathers for the holidays, remains by the door . . .
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