Re: New Book Alert!: Veni Vidi Venti (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

NPR's All Things Considered and Henry Rollins?  Wow, he really gets
around.

What an asshole.

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:01:17 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > I, an asshole
 > 
 >  > Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:08:11 -0400 (EDT)
 >  > From: PM Press <http://www.pmpress.org/~newsletter>
 >  > 
 >  >  Veni Vidi Venti
 >  > 
 >  >  Ian Shoales
 >  > 
 >  >  $15.00 $12.00
 >  >  Buy the PAPERBACK 
 >  >  
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 >  > 
 >  >  $9.95 $7.96
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 >  >  Ian Shoales's acerbic commentary cuts to the core of issues of the day and 
 >  >  to the philosophical puzzles that have intrigued and annoyed us since we 
 >  >  first fell out of the trees. His lyrics, light verse, comical vignettes, 
 >  >  and short fiction delight and occasionally enrage. His mind works at sixty 
 >  >  miles a second, and it is up to us to keep up.' Veni Vidi Venti' includes 
 >  >  many short pieces: lyrics, riddles, minute-long' Philosophy Talk ^
 >  >  @commentaries about everything from AI to the human soul, and scripts for 
 >  >  cartoons that luminous beings and Men in Black that must never be made. 
 >  >  Highlights include:
 >  > 
 >  >  'Spiff Bannister, International Correspondent: 'Sideshow Cassandra'': a 
 >  >  novelette in the form of a radio play'a carnie grifter looking to improve 
 >  >  the old 'Girl to Gorilla' sideshow gimmick may just have encountered a 
 >  >  form of legitimate time travel.
 >  > 
 >  >  'Bed & Breakfast & Testosterone': A brief trip to the manliest, and least 
 >  >  comfortable, bed & breakfast of all time.
 >  > 
 >  >  'Hammacher Schlemmer's Glory in the West (Our Cover Item Can Be Found on 
 >  >  Page 13)': A prose poem about the very last jet plane trip one might ever 
 >  >  take in the age of worldwide pandemics.
 >  > 
 >  >  'Pain is Pleasure?' An Ian Shoales commentary from' Philosophy Talk : in 
 >  >  a world of relative plenty, why do people embrace suffering? It's 
 >  >  pleasurable!
 >  > 
 >  >  'A Cowboy Needs a Horse': a short story about Western heroes, regional 
 >  >  theater, and when you just might need to shoot someone.
 >  > 
 >  >  'The Real Ian Shoales': From 1993, Ian Shoales (an anagram of 'I, an 
 >  >  asshole' by the way) looks back on all the sleazy biographies that 
 >  >  probably should have been written about him.
 >  > 
 >  >  'Kap'n Kitty's Korner: A Skit': the script of an episode of the 
 >  >  federally mandated kids' TV program for at-risk preteens. (It's illegal 
 >  >  for them to watch anything else!)