The F Plus - 227: Self Publish And Perish
Episode Date: September 13, 2016Our modern internet affords lots of opportunities for self-expression. However, these things remain ephemeral, and some authors long for the physicality of the written word. Fortunately for them,... there's America Star Books (formerly PublishAmerica), a self-publishing book company that's innovated the publishing world by removing all those annoying standards of quality. We're looking at a number of descriptions of these books, in the authors' own words (when those words aren't "description coming soon"). This week, you can have a free consultation with a werewolf, but I don't imagine it'll be helpful.
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A law firm of werewolves.
Toast kids, I'm laughing at a law firm.
A law firm of werewolves.
I'm going to steal the mic.
I just want to emphasize, a law firm of werewolves. This is the F Plus Podcast
A very literate place for terrible things
Right with enthusiasm
In the room tonight we have Boots Reingear
This is a story about a little dog named Hoover.
Kumquats up!
In the post-evolutionary, atheist-dominated world,
everybody evolves, or dis-evolves, to triumph.
Jack Chick!
I am a son of the soil who was rendered orphaned
by the untimely demise of his biological parents
found favor with the princess who elected him
as the one to wear the crown.
Bortex!
And Lemon.
Good people are dying in the city of Chicago
and a recovering alcoholic detective and a new
female partner have to find the monster and stop
the dying. The victims are random
people. Or are they?
They're so bad!
They're so bad!
They're so great. You're amazing.
There we are. There we are.
Hey, F+.
Hello.
Hey, Lemon.
Hi, Lemon.
Hey, everyone.
Are you feeling spiritually and productionally fulfilled?
Productionally?
I meant to say artistically, but then I couldn't find that word for some reason.
Oh, in that case, maybe.
No, I'm not feeling artistically fulfilled, but I am feeling productionally fulfilled.
I have fulfilled my quota today.
And what was your quota today, Kamhwaza?
17 red trucks.
Anyway, I would like to tell you of a way
that you could get your art out there
and have other people experience
all of the delightful, delicious
thoughts that you've been
holding up inside of you.
Without getting arrested?
I mean, well,
it depends on how the press junket goes.
So there
is a company
called America Star Books.
It used to be known as Publish America.
And it is an online bookstore that I suppose people who are less understanding of the mission of America Star would call a vanity press.
And that's only because it says on the front page, we promote books!
Indie authors, welcome!
So a lot of people
have
gone to
America Star Books and they've published
their own
works and then
later on, a
first time submitter by the name of
it's a good name, Shambambamina Sh by the name of Shambambamina
Shambambamina
Shambambamina
Shambambamina
Shambambamina
compiled some of these books.
What we're going to be looking at today
is specifically the blurbs
from these books.
Oh, great.
Alright, have I explained the concepts?
Bad books, descriptions of
we make words, laugh, make funny noises.
I don't know why you're assuming they're bad
books. They might be fine
books. We don't know. For example,
this book right here,
Nebula 6558,
special Christmas edition.
Wasn't that that Stephen Colbert?
I like when I hover over the book, I get like a 10 times zoom in.
So if I wanted to see the S and the P from Special Christmas Edition in really, really close in, I can do that.
Yeah, so we're going to be looking at Nebula 6558. It's a special Christmas edition.
It's by an anonymous writer who says,
I have been a writer now for a number of years,
but it only took it real serious like in the last five years or so,
starting with my newest piece, Nebula.
He wrote that verbatim, by the way.
Yes.
Also, Lemon, I'm going to suggest that perhaps the writer is named Dennis Bergstrom.
Why do you say that?
Oh, because it says Dennis Bergstrom really big on the cover.
It sure does.
Anyway, so Jack Chick, will you read the description of this book here?
Actually, can you tell us the category for this book first?
Yes.
This category is special book first? Yes. This category is
Special Editions and
Special Christmas.
Special Editions, Subsection,
Special Christmas.
Special Christmas section of
Special Editions.
Also has books such as
When God Acts,
Fire Team 4, and
Mint and Julep, Day One.
And a Tree Frog's Confession from a Psych Ward. God Axe, Fire Team 4, and Mitten Julep, Day 1. And, and, and,
a tree frog's confession
from a psych ward. Special Christmas
edition.
Anyway, what do you
got there? Alright, so
this is the description of the book.
Okay. I have been a writer
now for a number of years, but only took it
real serious, like, in the last
five years or so, starting with my newest piece,
Nebula 6, of which I
have now published with
xlibris.com out of Indiana
just this past year, in March
2010, of which may still
only be purchased online at this time.
That was the first
sentence.
I imagine it's getting into print any minute, though.
Yeah.
His fiction prose is way better.
But then other than Nebula 6 itself,
I've also written poetry for a long
time, too, and I was recognized for that
as well back in 1986
with honors and considered the Poet of the Year
for two years running and was published in a
book called The Poetry of
Anthology Almost Immediately. But then, of course, year for two years running and was published in a book called the poetry of anthology almost
immediately but then of course there was so it's poetry about anthologies yes the poetry of
anthology almost immediately there once was an anthology from nantucket whose bibliography was
so long it could suck it we're all writing already writing better than this guy.
Great. But then, of course,
there was the very first piece that I ever wrote in my life, and it was back in the 60s
when I was still in
grade school in the 6th grade, and we were
asked to write something about ourselves or our wishes,
and it was good enough.
We were told it could be published in a
local magazine there at the time, and
with my luck, I wrote some small
little poem of wishes I called
Space If Only I Had
a Nickel, quote, quote.
And to my surprise,
I was the one chosen. To my surprise
as well, actually. No, no,
I can't believe that you somehow got
picked up by another Vanity Press
scam. Lucky you.
I won the comma of the year prize for 2012.
Well, other than what I've already mentioned at this point,
I now also have several news stories written up and waiting for that right moment
that it takes to be published.
I still don't know what the book is about.
Terrific. No, I described it to you. Yeah, that's everything you get to know about the book is about. Yeah. Terrific. No, I described
it to you. Yeah, that's everything you get to know about
the book. How much does it cost?
$14.99.
How many pages?
412.
Okay, good.
Great.
412 pages in 6x9.
I mean, judging from the
way this guy talks
when he saw page count he might be like
how many pages did I count over the course of my life
I've seen 412 pages
might not be the actual page number
we're gonna be leaving the Christmas
section and
looking at a book here by
I believe it's Bill Sicotti
Bill Sicotti and Bill Sicotti.
And it's called Key West Redemption.
Yeah! Yeah, hi!
Hi! I'm Bill Sicotti!
Hey there.
That is what he sounds like.
Hi!
Key West Redemption!
Yep.
Key West Redemption
is a fictional account
of some truly
crazy adventures
here in paradise
that have gone just a touch
wild for this
cast of bizarre characters
such as
I don't know
uh
car chases.
Square groupers.
Wait, is that fish?
Fish.
Yeah.
Key West bars.
Grand Theft Auto.
Which one?
Boat shows.
That's pretty wild.
Those sound pretty fucking wild. Wise guys.
Bringing presents to Jesus. Gotcha.
Zombies.
What?
Cuba.
What?
Cuba in Key West.
Bad guys.
The old man in the sea
and zombies.
Pirates.
Bikers.
Barfights.
Boats.
And sport fishing are just a few of the tales inside these pages.
You close with sport fishing out of that list?
Close with boats and sport fishing.
I forgot something.
Oh yeah, and a
touch of drinking.
Good.
Great.
If you've ever
been to Key West,
then you'll love this
book. If you don't know what Key West is, you will love this book! Makes sense.
If you don't know what Key West is,
you're gonna find out.
Key West is a place with zombies,
Cuba, and bikers.
And pirates.
And a touch of drinking.
Not only are there boat shows,
but there's boats at the boat shows.
I would like if they
introduced the boat show in
chapter 5 and then the actual boats don't come in
until chapter 8.
This
site architecture here has already proven its worth
because Boots, you were mentioning that
if you zoom in or if you hover
over the picture, it zooms in.
I'm in the process of uploading that image to
Imgur.
Exactly what you're talking about.
Yeah, so Bill Shikati
there posed for his
own cover and
being self-published
gave him a massive boner.
He is
happy to have published a book.
It's like the airport scene
in Spinal Tap.
No, that's where he's keeping all the zombies,
you idiot.
He's smuggling them in his dog area.
That's what I call my square
grouper!
Alright.
So I'm looking for, Boots, I'm looking for a Vietnam War era
story. Oh, aren't we all,
brother? Yeah, I guess I'd like a Vietnam War
era story set against today's
political twist,
written as an adventure fiction,
except to those
knowing its veracity.
Yep.
Yeah, I'm Daryl S.
Mud. Thank you for ticking my
box. I'm Daryl's Mud,
and I've got a Vietnam
War era story set against
today's political twist
written as adventure fiction except to those knowing its veracity,
which is written on the fucking cover of the book.
Sure is.
Yeah.
In copper plate, if you want to know what font.
I'm pretty sure Cold War Burning Daryl S. Mudd is actually the name of the author,
and then that's the actual title.
Vietnam War era story.
I think maybe the name of the author is a Vietnam's the actual title vietnam war era story i think maybe the name
of the author is a vietnam war era story this book is 29.95 thomas t.j morgan was pushing on
the doorstep to retirement when an old buddy jesse holstrom startles him off his fading page
into an adventure journey with this comment.
Have you heard what bleeding-heart liberal revisionist historians are teaching our college students these days?
White people aren't perfect, and that's just weird to me. disgusted to hear scholarly professors teaching students that America equals protest movement
has nothing to do with igniting the
will of its communist enemies.
Yeah, he would have been fine if it was
like anti-intellectual professors.
Yeah. Right.
And it was all
lies about the Soviet Union supplying
massive amounts of money to these same
protest groups amongst
other altercated accusations.
That would explain why the protesters
were all doing that dance while they were holding up the signs.
TJ knows otherwise
after reading what high
ranking defectors from the
Soviet Union and Communist Vietnam
have to say and learns more
when visiting Vietnam and seeing
a country yet divided in ideology.
What?
Read Cold War
Burning and Bond with TJ and
Jesse and others as they set
the record straight.
Is Frank West
reading this?
This is a lot of
question marks.
By disclosing what you will not read anywhere about what is happening today in Vietnam,
back home in our classrooms.
Because it's not true.
Good.
Or my name isn't mud.
So this document, once again, put together by Sham Bam Bamina, and very good, and we're going to be getting to that in just a second, but, uh, first is something that Gumquassup found.
And it says on the cover of the book, so the book cover is a, uh, I believe it's a woman, uh, unbuttoning her pants.
Uh, and then it says on the cover, Florida Best Seller.
Hey, Lemon, what category is that in?
Oh, what category
is it in? It's in
Home Special Editions
Florida Best Seller.
Good.
Yep.
There's a bunch of them, actually.
Anyway, so this is a Florida Best Seller, and it's called Yep There's a bunch of them actually Anyway
So this is a Florida bestseller
And it's called Diary of a Norwegian Cougar
It's by Helen North
It's available now
I hope this is about a literal cougar
It's not
How do you know?
This is the diary of a woman
Turning 50
Who is going through a minor midlife crisis and by accident stumbles upon the exciting world of cougars.
She's a cougar.
She fights actual cougars.
She sees them in the wild.
No, I think she found the theme park.
Visit the exciting world of cougars.
Okay. Visit the exciting world of cougars! Okay, so she is energetic,
impatient, intense,
witty, sarcastic, and has
tons of built-up sexual tension, just
screaming to get out.
Is that your
screaming to get out? Is that your tension?
Yeah! Let me ease your tension
in Florida. Okay.
We follow her
through a year of ups and downs,
laughter and panic,
self-examination and
growing self-confidence,
sexy adventure,
and delicious orgasms.
So she eats the orgasms?
Yeah.
31 flavors of delicious orgasms.
TCBO. The country's best orgasms? 31 flavors of delicious orgasms. TCBO.
The country's best orgasms.
I prefer Cold Stone orgasms.
You would. Her different
lovers introduce her to
the sensual pleasures in life.
And she slowly discovers what she
has been missing all those
years of self-inflicted abstinence.
There's also an author bio and a book trailer.
You know, a trailer for the book.
The things I'm going to see when I read the book.
Yeah, yeah.
Right.
I wouldn't leave it up to your mind to figure that out.
Okay, so this
is a book
I think, Portex, I think you're gonna
like it a lot. Okay.
I tend to like things.
You're gonna like this. I mean, I know
you like some things, you don't like other things,
but I'm pretty sure you're gonna like
Girls Night Out Chronicles
colon Sugar Daddy colon
Mad Justice colon Cool Cats.
With one K and one C.
You know me so well.
That is a weird JavaScript object.
He's really into namespacing.
So it's a steal at a mere $24.95, by the way.
Wow. I think you're paying by.95, by the way. Wow.
I think you're paying by the title, by the words on the title.
All right, so this is Girls' Night Out Chronicles, Sugar Daddy, Mad Justice, Cool Cats.
My name is Tracy Ann Young.
And my book is about Sugar Daddy, quote unquote, in Providence, Rhode Island.
Egypt Monroe is a corporate paralegal.
Egypt Monroe is the name of the character, I guess.
Great.
Good job.
Already winning it.
Gucci Prada and Louis Vuitton con her meager salary.
That is Louis Vuitton con. Yeah, Louis Vuitton con. I go salary. As is Louis Vuitton con.
Yeah, Louis Vuitton con.
I go there every year.
It's so great.
Tickets are very expensive.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
They're made out of actual mink face.
Her meager salary at purchasing these leave her without money for rent.
Anthony Ricci, owner of Bella Mains, tells her wicked ways to make money.
So she's a paralegal.
She spends all of her money on purses.
But she describes it as Gucci, Prada, and Louis Vuitton con her meager salary.
Yes.
They trick her.
Yes.
I mean, you know.
It's not fair.
An idiot wouldn't buy those.
Mad Justice Tiffany Collins, that is, I guess, another name or something? No, a Mad Justice Tiffany.
Mad Justice Tiffany Collins is a young woman with a bright future,
planning for a large wedding.
Maybe not necessarily her own,
it's not sure.
Being at the wrong place at the wrong time,
I guess her own wedding,
she is kidnapped
and trained to be an assassin.
Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know how it is.
You're at the wrong place
at the wrong time
and then you're kidnapped.
Fuck it, we need an assassin.
I guess, mm, you'll do.
She is brainwashed by Jeremy.
Oh, that fucking asshole.
Oh, Jeremy.
I hated him last year.
Jeremy, yeah.
Fuck that guy.
He's the leader of a worldwide assassination ring.
She escapes and is on a mission to avenge women wronged by men.
Cool Cats Janet and Matthew Miller lived a quiet life.
She's a stockbroker and he is an attorney.
They bought the perfect home.
The tenant, Dr. Thomas Hutton, paid three months in advance.
He invented a revolutionary breakthrough changing the lives of both men and women.
What?
Just one.
They bought the perfect home and rented it out?
Is that what's happening?
This is too good for me.
I don't... Are all these stories
related?
Are these the names of chapters?
Or the names of characters?
Is this like a collection of stories?
I need to get that title
one more time. Can you give me that title again?
Sorry. Girls Night Out Chronicles.
Sugar Daddy. Mad Justice.
Cool Cats.
Alright.
So I've noticed here
As we've all been looking around on the site
There is the to be seen on TV category
There sure is
Yes
Which is a very good promissory note
And Jack Chick, what did you just find in that category?
I found Resurrection Day by Thomas G. Wyckoff.
I see some of the papyrus font for your TV.
The first one so far.
Fresh from a successful raid into ancient Babylon to steal the treasures of the Chaldean Empire,
Tom Anderson's team of recovery force commandos is tasked
by the President of the United States
to return to the first
century A.D. to steal the body
of Christ from the tomb.
Success will mean the collapse
of the conservative parties opposing
the President's political agenda.
Oh, because they can't invoke Jesus?
Nothing reasons anymore?
Huh.
That President and his agenda.
Someone's sending these tornadoes to punish the gays, but now we don't know who it is.
Someone damn it.
Failure is not possible because the outcome of the mission is known in advance.
Yet something goes wrong.
Anderson is chosen by Jesus as the Apostle Thomas.
Carried along by the force of unchangeable historical events,
the Passion of Christ unfolds as the Commando team becomes entangled with Jesus' equal sign supporters and enemies.
Determined to fulfill their task,
the team raids the tomb only to be swept forward to the future
with a mission that will signal the final days of mankind.
So this takes place in the past?
You said it's historical events?
Yeah.
Or it's the wrestler mankind?
The final days of mankind.
I think so, yeah.
Alright, it is time for some fantasy books Yay!
Thank you, Dory
Genre fiction, great
Absolutely
So, Boots
You're Stephanie
Alice Brodeur
And I want you to tell me about your book
Young Valor, please
Yeah, I'm Steph Alice Broder They call you Stuffelbro And I want you to tell me about your book, Young Valor, please.
Yeah, I'm Steph Alice Broder.
They call you Stuffelbro.
It's a good fantasy book, length of 156 pages.
Wow.
Fair enough.
Here's the description.
Alicius must cure his mother before she meets her demise. But an omen befalls
Anglaju.
And the
land is destroyed.
No! That's why it's
so short. No, not
Anglaju.
Alesias and Amalfira
are taken into captivity.
Escaping from
captivity,
escaping from captivity,
they hear of a man named
Strauch, the wise,
and seek him out.
Who is Strauch?
I'm pretty sure I'm pronouncing that right.
I'm almost positive that's gotta be right.
The three of them go on a mission to seek the stolen
life force of Aramalis,
an arrogant who has stolen it
from the god himself.
Alicius becomes a Darion,
which helps him in the future.
While on the mission,
while on the mission, they meet
a boy named Corvin
from Virulidium.
I have all these names. What can I do with them?
I'll write a book.
What the hell? This is important to know.
I went to fantasynamegenerator.com and then wrote a book. What the hell? This is important to know. I went to fantasynamegenerator.com and then wrote a book.
And truth bank began.
Oh, I can just hit generate a hundred times?
Okay.
The four of them seek out the evil gods to raid their life forces for Arrogant in order
to take back the stolen life force of Aramalus before Arrogant instigates the battle.
The dark age of Aramalus will then be instigates the battle. The Dark Age of Arimalis will then be
brought back to the Days of Light.
When the Days of Light are returned
and the Dark Age of Arimalis
is at its end, they must go
on a mission to rid the evil that lurks
from within all the lands.
But that is before the evil
rids them.
What?
Well, it's a good
thing we have a Darien
fixing this problem for us.
I don't know what we do.
It's nice that they met
a boy named Corvin from
Verodium, not Corvin from
some other fucking place.
Hey,
Stephanie
Allais Brodeur, can you tell me a little bit
about yourself? Oh, sure
Stephanie Brodeur lives in
Murrieta with her family and has been
trying to write Young Valor since she was
15. For seven
years she has been
waiting for the book to be written
how she wanted it
When will this fucking book be done?
She has been through enough
struggles. She now awaits
a better future.
And the book cover
is a sword stuck in something.
Sure is. It's stuck in Strolch.
Oh, yes.
That's true.
Portex, time for you to make a choice.
Yay. I have two different
fantasy novels
with some punctuation.
Alright, here we go.
Option number one is The History
of Valensoul, Ampersand,
The Rise of the True King, colon,
book one, colon, Rise of Decay.
That's your first
option. I mean, I've heard of that one.
Okay, yeah, yeah. The other one
is Eras, colon, Corey Robinson, comma, the owner, colon, all caps, book four, in the Eras series, comma.
Oh, Jesus.
I like uppercase, but I also like ampersands.
Right, yeah, yeah.
I think the second one, the Tommy Ice Cream Explosion fans.
I don't know why you can't remember the title.
I just gave it to you.
The title is Eras, Corey Robinson, the owner, all caps, book four in the Eras series.
Oh, that one.
Yeah.
So the page count is 130.
I'm assuming 100 of those are listing the rest of the title.
I preferred book three, personally.
Get the fuck out, Jack.
So I'm Christine Ann Rivest.
Yep.
And this is Eris Corey Robinson, the owner, book four in the Ares series.
The description, the realm of magic is in danger.
The owner of all magic is the one who is destined to battle the destroyer to save magic.
However, he will not be alone.
Five other magi will help.
Three of these magical beings need to be trained before
the event, because they are
the owner's younger siblings.
What? Will they be trained in time?
I don't know. Will Corey succeed
in saving the Realm of Magic?
Let us join him in Eris,
Corey Robinson, the owner, to see what
happens. Wait, is Corey
the owner?
The description is shorter than the title. Wait, is Corey the owner? The description is shorter than the title.
Wait, so are the
are the, wait, okay, so the magical
beings are Corey the owner's
younger siblings.
The owner of all magic
had all the magic
until the event happened, and then
they have to feed him a perfect sandwich
so that way he destroys all magic and reconstitutes
it in the brain of Corey Robinson,
who then shoots at our ears in all directions, and then magic comes back into the land.
Sorry I spoiled it for you.
That makes sense.
We need to skip to the gay and lesbian section.
Okay.
And some, like, frolic over there, because I'm down.
So this is a book by Victoria Yousefi.
And come, come, stop. What is a book by Victoria Yousefi. And come quads up, what is this book called?
Hi, I'm Victoria Yousefi.
Hi.
You sound like the guy from earlier.
I am related to him.
Yeah, this is centipedes lovers.
As in the lovers that one centipede owns!
Of course.
Of course.
Fans of the arcade game.
Yes!
Yes!
Yes!
Yes, yes, hello!
Nogley and Avley are two centipede gay friends what yes yes yes they're
born in a middle-class family in jerusalem what yes yeah okay yes uh why not uh secretly when
nobody was home they danced hip-hop and what like they put on a video of Darren's dance grooves and just fucking...
Yes.
I mean, if you have that many legs,
you might as well use them for that.
They put makeup on their faces
wearing Nogli sisters' high-heeled pink shoes.
They always wish to live in New York City.
A related fact.
Okay.
What the fuck?
What is the actual fuck?
And they're centipedes, right?
Yes.
They don't look like centipedes.
No, they're lovers of centipedes.
I hope later in the description we'll find out why one centipede has a nose and the other one doesn't.
That's not a nose!
Oh, dear.
Miraculously, they found
the way to reach their goal.
Which goal? Nobody knows.
And moved to the city. New York City.
Yes. Yes.
Yes. Nogley has a dynamic
voice, and Avley is a
talented cardiographer.
The first night walking in the city.
Keep in mind, they're centipedes.
They got very excited by the activity
around them.
There's a centipede activity in New York City.
Yes.
It's a well-known destination
for centipede travelers worldwide.
Yes.
It's sometimes, I mean, it's a big place.
It's hard to kind of get your bearings.
So what you got to do is you got to jump in a cab
and say, take me to the centipede bar.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yes.
Yes.
Nogli immediately started dancing hip hop.
They were already dancing hip hop with Avli and singing,
New York, New York, we are here.
It's got a real-hop flavor there.
Yes! Suddenly, they
met a very handsome
gay millipede
named Aldo.
God damn it.
That just pisses me off. I hate it.
I hate it when I'm reading a decent
centipede story and they fucking throw millipedes
in my hand.
I already know centipede is the much better name.
His name was Aldo.
He has many, many, many shoes.
Great.
Yeah.
He was a record producer.
Life for these lovers amazingly
will make a very exciting story.
It's not amazing and exciting yet, but it will be.
Trust me.
Yeah,
not the text here, but just the general
story is pretty exciting. Yes, yes,
yes, yes! For the first time
they're enjoying Centipede's
Gay Crowd Parade!
Gay Crowd Parade?
I too would have enjoyed that.
No, the well-known centipedes gay crowd parade.
Gay crowd parade.
Yes.
They will make you laugh.
I agree.
Can we read this at F Plus Live?
Yeah, I think so.
It's probably a really good idea, actually.
How much would it cost?
$16.95.
How many pages?
40.
40.
40.5 and a half by 8.5.
It's a weird
looking book.
So that was the
gay section.
We're going to
talk a little bit about
the horror section. I've only got one horror book
I want to talk to you about.
And that book is The Den, A Law Firm of Werewolves.
It's by Marcus Guy Seagley, maybe?
Guy Seagley?
Guy Seagley.
I'm pretty sure, you guys laughed, but I'm pretty sure A law firm is like the proper name of a group of werewolves.
Oh, it's Marcus Gies, you general.
In the small, secluded town of Forest Haven, New York,
an evil force has been living amongst the people of society for over six years in the rich-gated community of Redstone Estates.
in the rich-gated community of Redstone Estates.
That same evil force has also been running a successful law firm founded by a wealthy plutocrat named Craig Warnock,
who is actually a mysterious demon that has unknowingly brought in creatures
from the deep to forest to pose as regular human beings.
Well, they already said lawyers, so...
The very creatures that have been living among other people of society
are actually a band of werewolves.
Oh, my God.
That's a twist that I spoiled like four sentences ago.
But they're in a band.
That's awesome.
They are out there just like everybody else.
The mysterious demon and werewolves
that have been posting as regular human
beings all gather their supernatural
powers from an underground
dwelling known amongst themselves
as the Den, a place of unspeakable
horrors that has been around for over
a hundred years.
Okay. Just as
one of the members of the law
firm suddenly, viciously
kills an innocent man,
he is found
arrested and tried as a human
being. Like, literally as it
happens,
just as it happens, he kills the person
and they find him. I'm hoping
that they find him, but he's still in the suit,
but he's got a giant wolf head.
Yeah, I don't see why not.
Also, they tried him as a human being as opposed to trying him as a werewolf?
Yeah, yeah, it's different laws entirely, and at that point you need a werewolf jury.
Nearly two years later, he is found not guilty and warns his defense attorney, Steve Holland.
That's important.
Yeah.
And that's Steve Holland, not Savage Steve Holland, the director of...
Shit.
The Val Kilmer movie, right?
No, wait.
No, no.
No, no.
Better Off Dead.
There it is.
Yeah, that's the one.
That a secret society of creatures does not exist.
It is at this time that Steve mistakenly uncovers
the fact that there is a law firm operated solely by werewolves
and the founder is some sort of demon
that wants Steve to work at his place of business.
Steve must now fight to
save his life, as well as his former
fiancés, and find a way to escape
or defeat the vicious werewolves and mysterious
demon posing as a human being.
Steve now knows that he can
either become another werewolf
at the law firm,
or meet a
grisly death in the underground dwelling
known as the den.
Wait, wait, what?
So Steve is the main character of the book
and he's not introduced in the blurb
until almost the end.
Yeah.
Why can't the whole book just be about
just the fact that there's a law firm
of werewolves and this, like, den stuff?
You just go, like, so, uh, yeah,
my wife left me and she's wanting
to take all my stuff and...
Yeah, exactly. She's just wanting...
She said that she gets to have full custody
of the kids and that I'm an unfit parent.
Look, alright, I guess we'll talk about that. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha He likes...
London likes werewolf sound.
Alright, we need to do a YouTube series.
Me and the werewolf lawyer.
How much money does crack.com have?
Not any left by the time they're done paying us.
Fair enough.
Can we have a special guest emoji on frankwest.xyz?
Of me doing werewolf emoji?
All right.
So who wants to do some juvenile books?
Boots does.
All right.
This is books for juveniles, not books written by the rapper Juvenile.
I'll be the judge of that.
Never mind then.
Hi, I'm Peter C. Graspy.
Oh, hi Peter.
Yeah, and this is The Adventures of Trump Tickle Mouse.
It's available now.
I'm sorry, it's not just called Trump Tickle Mouse.
Oh, sorry.
The Adventures of Trump Tickle Mouse. Oh, sorry. The Adventures of Trump Tickle Mouse.
Mad Dogs and Mad Man Things.
Good.
I was like, the comic character?
You watch it on Spike TV!
The Adventures of Trump Tickle Mouse.
And here's the description of the book.
As in his two previous books,
Trump has more adventures,
but he confronts different problems this time.
His troubles stem from the greed of people
and his want for perfect happiness.
He encounters dogs, trucks, and men,
all bent on destroying the little town in the dunes.
However, that was not in Trump's plan.
He must overcome several enormous challenges which
he even then felt was no hope of success failing at times
okay failing at times he comes back with new ideas and sticks to his original plan
oh my god with sword in hand he does not give in until the target
is finally secure.
Where will he go from here?
Only fate can say.
It hasn't gone anywhere. Your book hasn't
started yet.
No, here, just like the place he's standing
right there on the cover.
Yeah, where will they go from here? Only fate can say.
But I am sure Trump will be ready to face it
bravely and willingly.
I, however, am a bit skeptical.
Yep.
So the truck is, it says dogs, trucks, and
men all bent on destroying the little town.
So the trucks are also wanting to destroy it.
Alright, so quantity 95
at the cart.
$1,895
is no bulk discount. Weird.
This poetry has been published in England, Australia, and the USA.
We're moving on now to the mystery section.
It is very, very spellbinding and terrifying.
Jack Chick.
This is a book by Cindy Didis Lewis.
And what's this
book called?
Get them out of there.
A nightmare
like no other
nightmare.
Is it real or really a dream?
This fictional work is about
a glass house with my two kids,
Susie and Clay, on the
seventh floor. Get them out
of there! Weird-looking alien
guards with very strange powers are holding them
hostage. Get them out of there!
Victor, Dom, Robbie, Justin,
Jeff, Mike, Berta, Jim, Johnny,
Andrew, James,
Randy, Cynthia, Trisha,
Shelly, and... Get them out of there!
All of them! Get
them out of there! And over them. Get them out of there.
And over 1,540 family members and friends are in my nightmare trying to help me get them out of there.
What?
What?
A truck accident, four wheelers, a broken back, a birthday party, a bear, a very large fish, funny stories, dramatic stories, a canoe blown up with a dynamite, and two men in the water.
Why get them out of there? Oh. Why get them out of there?
Oh, there's so many things that need to be out of there.
Why get them out of there?
That's a mystery
about
what the hell the book is about.
Getting them out of there!
However, there is a continuation of the genre
of things getting out of things.
I'm sorry, what?
And I'm Cindy Didis Lewis, and I need to get out of here!
What?
What?
Yeah.
I need to get out of here.
And the nightmare continues!
Sitting on the edge of my bed, I was wringing with sweat, and I felt like I was going to pass out.
I started to put one foot down onto the rug when the shooting pain went right down my right leg and I stopped.
I knew if I put my foot on the floor and then the pain would shoot right back up my leg and it would be severe.
So I sat for a couple of minutes thinking, just thinking, these dreams.
Oh, these dreams.
Or were they really dreams?
I know some of this stuff is real, but all of it?
This fictional book contains murder, kidnapping, a plane ride, car chase, an accident in Indiana, and more!
What's next?
What is next?
What's next?
Is there things that we can get out of there?
I mean, I presume things are getting out of there.
Also, I just now realized that Cindy Ditas Lewis, her name is spelled Cindy, open parentheses, Ditas, close parentheses, Lewis.
Ditas.
You know, just, you know,
you whisper that. Didis.
Author of such books
as The Sugar
Spigot, Because
of a Woman, colon, Life Stories
of, quote, Lee,
Leon Arthur Didis.
And Time to Head south with Cindy.
Like your publishing company?
Because I agree.
So real quick, Boots just linked
a book that has absolutely no
description to it, and I think that it's
very worth the title of
Pianist Without a Brain.
There's a picture of a lovely lady on it.
Yep, there sure is.
You got it.
Why would you need a description?
It's right there.
Anyway, it's now finally time for us to move into the romance section.
Yay!
Hot.
Super hot.
into the romance section.
Yay!
Hot.
Super hot.
I'm Annette Dosser,
and this is the worldly princess meets the billionaires.
All of them?
Yeah, absolutely.
She is worldly.
She can take it.
Meets the billionaires, colon, book one, colon.
Meets the billionaires, colon?
Princess Ariana.
Is Princess Ariana a princess and a billionaire?
No, she's a princess And she's meeting the billionaires
She's worldly
Ariana Sarkozy
Is princess
Of Venice
Right?
Okay
You ready for some romance?
Venice, well known for its monarchy.
Yeah, okay, so are you ready for some
nice, lovely romance?
Okay, so this is going to be really touching,
really sweet and sincere.
The worldly princess meets the billionaire.
So here we go.
She has been brutally raped and beaten by human
trafficking madmen, one of the lucky ones
to escape him.
Great.
Oh dear.
Is this one of those people who made those muck descriptions?
She was supposed to marry
Bretton Merrington, but she did not love
this man. When Ariana
marries, she will marry for love
and nothing else. When she is taken
to the hospital to be checked out, she meets
the love of her life, which also
happens to be
friends with the woman who rescued her and the sister of her life, which also happens to be friends with the woman who rescued her
and the sister of her best friend
and the other
woman! The other women.
Oh, the other women, all of them!
The other women just ever!
Good, that can follow who that is.
He's got a lot of friends. Greg Van
Hoolen is an
egomaniac CEO
and major playboy.
He wants to find another plaything again.
He meets Sandy McNair, but she is not what he needs.
He helps his friend.
Ironically, she has lots of hair.
Anyway, that's a whole chapter.
Yeah.
He meets somebody.
It doesn't matter.
Irrelevant things!
Exclamation point.
He helps his friend Breton out
with rescuing women from a madman.
He sees the most beautiful woman
he has laid his eyes on
at the hospital.
Have the doctor shove those back in.
That's not where those go.
Sandy comes in and tells him
that Ariana has been brutally raped
and beaten to give her some time.
He talks to Ariana
and thinks that it's the old
I've been brutally raped and beaten play.
Yeah.
Like in that Three's Company episode.
The next sentence.
Look, he talks to Ariana
and thinks that she might
be his next plaything and so much more!
No! No! Go to jail!
Go to jail right now! That's bad
idea!
No! No! This is not
good! This is bad time!
Can Ariana get over
what happened to her to be with
the man of her dreams? Can Greg
fall in love with Ariana
and get over the Playboy image
he has?
They both have things to get past.
Both of them
have obstacles.
She's a right-wing
and he doesn't care.
It's kind of mean.
What the fuck?
What the fuck what
the fuck yeah and that
does or yeah this was
written by him can greg
finally get over anita
sarkeesian and move on
i just need to make one
more youtube video and i'm
over it okay
can greg find the emotional strength
to care that someone else was raped?
Read the book
and find out.
Jesus.
Can I read the description to French
vampire teens?
You probably should. Who is it by?
It's by Victoria Yousefi.
That is the same person that did the
gay centipede romance.
Oh, good.
Yeah.
Okay.
Oh, good.
Okay.
This book's called French Vampire Teens.
Classy font that time.
I don't want to French them, and you can't make me.
Alphonse and Kane recently were reincarnated by the powers of love and have become master vampires again.
Ooh, I'm so happy for them.
Again.
Yeah.
After more than 300 years, the evil witch Sarah vindictively transferred them to the distant future to destroy their strong powers.
As a loyal friend...
Sorry.
As a loyal friend, the vampire Marceau magically initiated them by Vampire's Kiss to reestablish their powers.
The goal
is to collapse the dictator vampire
Alexander's kingdom and free
the innocent slaves from his nasty slave
camps. You will enjoy
and laugh with the funny and colorful
characters, including the one referred to
as Zombie Boobs.
Zombie Boobs.
There's a bunch of slaves.
Hilarious.
Are the people zombies?
Like, do they eat brains?
Yes.
Cool.
I'm down.
Travel into the whimsical romance
while enjoying the many different zombies,
witches, bloody scenes,
and of course, vampires, possessive,
battling in town of Toulon and the island vampires, possessive, battling in town
of Toulon and the
island of Marseille, France.
And of course
an island now? That's a terrible book.
I don't like it at all.
I think I've learned everything I need to know about
French vampire teens and I hate it.
I would rather read that than the other one.
Well, okay, that's true.
But that just comes with the zombie boobs, right?
Well, I mean, yeah, you got me.
And poor Tex hates hip-hop dancing.
So we're going to be moving into the science fiction category now.
Okay.
This is the last of the fiction categories.
And this one is called Earth's Adventures.
Sounds very dramatic and interesting.
Come, Quasop.
Yes?
Tell me about Earth's Adventures by S.L. Clements.
Yes, hello, my name is S.L. Clements.
Okay.
The Earth is such a glorious place to visit.
The Earth is such a glorious place to visit.
From it is many waterfalls, caves, oceanic views, etc.
You know.
All that shit on Earth. You've seen it.
There are so many sights to see that I simply can't name them all.
But I sure did try in the text of this book.
And done.
Yet when one thinks of adventures on Earth,
none would dare
think of the adventures laying
in wait just outside
of its atmosphere.
Because I called this fucking
book Earth's Adventures,
I naturally wouldn't fucking think of the adventures
outside of this Earth.
No, Earth is having the adventure.
Earth's Adventures,
it's like
the year that Earth took off college
and backpacked around.
Oh, yeah.
It went itself.
It's just burning itself.
Did a bunch of mushrooms.
Just loafing around in hostels in Germany.
In space Germany.
They think differently, you know?
Let alone in seeking
an entirely new Earth.
The tales
that await within will fill
you with wonder as you follow
Gerard through a maze
of survival as he
competes in a new form of the Olympics.
Hey, what's a maze
of survival?
I don't...
Uh, my spelling of
it's.
You'll even have
chills tingle
your spine while reading
about Shannon, another character, dealing with his ship.
Now hang on, hang on, let me explain Shannon for a second.
Okay, she's a character.
Yeah.
Oh, I thought you were talking about your ex-wife in the description.
With his ship self-destructing in the middle of space
during Earth's first
expedition to a new Earth.
What?
What in the goddamn
fuck is even happening here?
Earth went to Earth, idiot.
How would you handle such a thing
when nobody can hear you scream?
A tagline I just said.
So come along
for the ride of your life in Earth's
Adventures. I promise
you will never be the same when you're
done. You're right, I'll be
quite a bit angrier.
And a little bit poorer.
Well, $30 poor, god damn.
Um.
So that is the
fiction section.
But there is a non-fiction category
with books such as
Computeritis and
How to Survive the Technological
Age and
Obsessions, Digressions, and Shocking Confessions!
But there's also
this book, poor Tex.
Will you tell us about
the book
entitled Dreamweight?
Dreamweight?
What? Yes.
This is Dreamweight
amongst the distorted
clouds. Is there an ellipsis
in that title? Those clouds don't look that
distorted.
My name is Jane
Skidmore Bennett.
Skidmore?
My friends call me
Skidmark. Yeah, my, and Skids,
don't worry.
This is an inside look
at one person's inner struggle
with the image syndrome.
Dot dot, and all the craziness
that is actually attached to it dot dot dot from continuous images that are flaunted daily in our
society semicolon speaking volumes without speaking at all dot dot dot kind of like this description
wow this book was written to bring attention to so much nonsense that most don't even realize that goes on behind the scenes.
The interwar began in the 60s and continues still today.
From Ohio.
I bring you my inside story.
In hopes that it helps myself as well as others.
My dream is that there's less focus on images and more on the people that do good deeds around the world.
Dot, dot, dot.
Thank you.
Dot, dot, dot.
This is a real story.
Dot, dot, dot.
Through scenes that it may not be.
Dot, dot, motherfucking dot.
Fuck.
Fuck.
Oh, Skidmore, you're so eloquent.
Hey, Lemon.
Yeah, what?
If I remember correctly, you are a big fan of the sitcom Friends.
You are.
That's the one thing, my one takeaway.
Really?
Yeah.
How's your memory?
Yeah.
Okay.
But I know that
You were up on your trivia of Friends
Because did you know that it's based on a book?
No, I didn't know that Friends
The sitcom was based on a book
Yeah
So this is Friends
It's by Jan Mitchell Caraxo
And it was illustrated by Jim Mitchell
Okay, so here's the description This book is about two friends Jan Mitchell Caroxo and it was illustrated by Jim Mitchell.
Okay, so here's the description.
This book is about two friends that liked hats, dresses, and most of all
they liked boxes.
This is a story of what they did with the big box.
That sounds gripping and compelling.
That is the perfect description of the show, though.
Yeah.
Okay.
Boots, I'm gonna
have you make a choice. Okay.
Both of these. I love choices.
Because they're so easy.
They are. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Here we go.
Would you like
to read the recalcitrant
namer nation
colon cold warfare seven Roman numeral? to read The Recalcitrant Namer Nation colon Cold Warfare
7 Roman Numeral
by Jalex Owens.
Or American Gestapo
by Penny Fletcher. Oh, shit.
I'm going to take the first one.
Alright. Why did you say
the first one rather than
the recalcitrant Namor Nation
colon Cold Warfare
Roman numeral 7
by Dr. Patrick
Pacallo comma
CP? What does that mean?
It's because you didn't communicate that
there was an apostrophe before Namor
so, I mean, Oh, sure.
We could actually keep track of that.
Certified P-countant?
Yes.
Oh, yes, Dr. Patrick Pacalosipi.
Cock perfect.
No, that stands for child pornographer.
Castillary pirate.
Oh, that's just, they just add that to your name at that point.
Right.
He's just very proud of himself.
It's called a dishonorific.
Just add that to your name at that point.
Right.
He's just very proud of himself.
It's called a dishonorific.
Oh, yes.
So this is my book, The Recalcitrant Namer Nation, Cold Warfare V7.
Yeah.
The brain of Dr. Patrick Pacal, OCP, has been on roast bake for 35 years.
He is cooked.
All the wires are fried.
He is unglued and raw in this story of national security history.
What?
Read about the 28th Infantry Keystone Division.
History's blackest of black sheep.
Indulge in the rhyme of Cluxing the Rusties.
The Namers Namer.
Nazis as Nazis.
The F-35.
The Mother.
And the Lost Generation of Warriors.
Chemical Warfare and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Wow.
All of this will leave you wanting more But there is nowhere else to go
Because when you read this you will have reached
Certifiable insanity
I mean clearly
Hey Jack Chick
Hi
You know what I want to hear about
Is it libertarianism
Oh my god I want to hear about libertarianism
Excellent
Well you've come to the right place
This is the young libertarianism. Excellent. Well, you've come to the right place. This is
The Young Libertarian, colon,
A Guide to Economic, comma,
Intellectual and Personal Freedom.
Oh, boy.
Personal freedom.
My name is Tanner Hall.
The Young Libertarian boldly
shows the hypocrisy of our country's
current two-party system.
Whether you are struggling to find your
place on the political spectrum or have questions that demand answers from both big government and
big church, the Young Libertarian will help guide you in your journey to personal freedom.
See politicians for who they really are. Learn both parties' viewpoints on every social and
economic subject that plagues this country. I'm sure they're all presented
fairly and elegantly.
Right. So one's like
Texas!
And the other one's like
Iraq!
That's an actual quote from the book. That's amazing.
Lemons. Lemon.
What? I'm really glad
that the cover presents presumably
a picture of the author.
Would you be surprised to know that it's a white male?
Oh, my God.
Not only would I be surprised to learn that, I would be super surprised if he had a goatee.
That would fucking shock me.
He's wearing black, too.
That's weird.
Become the free thinker you were always meant to be.
Oh, God. And agree with me on everything Kumquats Hop
Hi
Yeah, that libertarian was kind of annoying
Can you give me a likable character instead?
George Walker Bush
Oh, there we go
Thanks
Great
I love having alternatives
My name's Jell Jones.
My name's Jelk Jones.
Yes.
George Walker Bush,
comma, history maker, comma,
911 champion, comma,
Iraq dismantled.
Huh.
Okay.
That's a list of things that i wrote
you shoved into one book yeah uh it just did incredible riveting relaxing
yeah that those are words that work uh Look at the founding of America and the making of an American president
that turned world history maker.
George Walker Bush.
George W. Bush.
I mean, he did make history.
I mean, technically that is an accurate statement.
I mean, I don't agree.
I don't think that somebody makes history.
I think that history happens.
It's not like you created it.
Like you hew it out of
law. He was a historical figure.
That's all I'm saying.
He won
9-11.
That's true.
He was the champion of 9-11.
Out of all the 9-11 games,
he won all the games.
He's got the trophy to prove it.
Listen, I'm not so good at horseshoes, but 9-11 is my game.
Yeah. Yeah, George Walker Bush, world history maker, 9-1-1 champion,
Iraq dismantled, gives an in-depth look at our 43rd president,
displays him through his own words.
Oh, dear.
It unfolds and showcases past presidents as page by page take you down a road through history.
It unfolds past presidents?
That was George Walker Bush's own words.
I mean, it probably was.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It takes the Grover Cleveland centerfold and just spreads it out.
Ooh, that's hot.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's bending over a pool table, but it's tasteful.
That daft two-page spread, though.
I'm not going to believe it.
Because it's just him sitting down.
No, that one's a mad fold-in
George Walker Bush
The world history maker
9-1-1 champion
And not dismantled
Paints a trail on how the early Americans
Laid the groundwork for the institution
That would become
The United States of America
Whoa
What?
So George Bush created America?
No, that's what I'm getting at.
Yeah?
Yeah?
Yeah.
The pages will take you right in the center
of history when one
single man had the authority
and the will to hand over the entire
state of New York to a friend
as a gift.
What the fuck is that?
What are you talking about?
Well known for handing over the entire
state of New York to a friend as a gift.
Are you talking about the Manhattan
purchase?
I don't think George Bush
was around for that.
I mean, he might have been.
He's kind of a time traveler.
I'm not going to discover it in the book. Well, what we need to do is Bush was around. I mean, he might have been. He's kind of a time traveler.
That's covered in the book.
What we need to do is purchase this here island. Hey, you want some New York?
That's like the perfect impression.
Best impression.
Okay, snidely whiplash.
Hey, Kukla, I want you to never do any other character again One, I promise I won't ask for another one
One favor, I want you to say
We're freedom fighters, they're terrorists
We're freedom fighters fire. They're terrorists.
President Waluigi will return after these messages.
Where?
Anyway.
The pages live and breathe how early americans sought out this new land and how determination built this nation into what it is today
yeah that makes sense what is it i mean okay well sure kind of a funny sentence doesn't really hold
up to what kumquat was doing 10 seconds ago. No, I mean, the thing
is, like, the Iraq war
was well known for separating
the Americans from the British, right?
Was it?
I mean, I guess, like, the
British ones that we shot by
accident.
Yeah, that's a fair point.
Boots.
We're coming down to the end of this nonfiction section.
In fact, this episode about America Star Books, and I'm sad to say that, but it is true.
So which of these sections do you think is more like, what do you want to say?
Like, is more up your alley, is more the kind of thing that you're into.
Okay. I've got a lot of different interests, so. You do have a lot
of different interests. I'm going to give two.
I'm going to give two, and so it's like a ranking
system. You have to decide which thing you like more
than the other thing. You know what I mean? Okay.
So, category one is science.
Okay. I know you like science.
Yeah, I've got a bachelor
of science. Sure. And the other one is spirituality. Oh. I know you like science. Yeah, I got a bachelor of science. Sure. And the other one
is spirituality. Oh, I've
got a
fondness of spirituality.
Of course.
So which of those would you like?
I'm a very spiritual person.
Okay, great, great.
I really like
Reiki and things.
I've noticed.
So this book is called Identity Sheets.
And I won't tell you who it's by.
You have to tell me who it's by.
It is by E.L. Essie.
That is an acronym.
This book is called Identity Sheets by Else.
This book is called Identity Sheets by Else.
The world has its own power, can heal, can materialize thoughts, can be a way toward God, but only if it is spoken or wrote to create communion between people and keeping always the middle path.
The word stays at the basis of the gnosis.
The word stays at the basis of the gnosis, in the attempt to explain the unexplainable, guiding the spiritual traveler through the ascending stairs of knowledge.
Rational, imaginative, and intuitive, and above all, at the conscious nescience, Conscious Nescience. At the Conscious Nescience. Right.
The word is also the vehicle of the prayer,
which connect us with the uncreated energies and elevates us from our decayed condition.
Oh, for fuck's sakes.
But we must take care because,
like the sacred texts are saying,
the word of God...
Booty, booty, booty, rocking everywhere.
the sacred texts are saying,
the word of God... Booty, booty, booty, rocking everywhere.
Let us join our hands in prayer!
They say, wiggle it just a little bit.
As the sacred texts are saying,
the word of God isn't a blather.
And even Jesus Christ commands us to have our words simple.
Yes, if it is yes.
And no, if it is no.
The Holly Fathers advise us not to talk much.
Because this dilute the spiritual load of our words.
Oh, yeah!
No, baby, I don't like to talk that much.
I always get really quiet after my spiritual load.
Identity Sheets is trying to show how words become our different identities.
Oh, this is a book definition.
How they build around us the world in which we wish to live.
So, nescience is a word, according to MiriamWebster.com.
Okay.
And it means lack of knowledge
or awareness. So when you go
back, imaginative,
intuitive, and above all,
at the conscious ignorance
is what that is.
Dumb on purpose is what that
means. Great.
Speaking of
dumb on purpose. What's that?
I have an idea. I'm also I have an idea I'm also else
But now I'm angry else
So you're the Emacs language sensitive editor
E-learning and software
For education conference
Sure yeah
I'm not a robot that gained sentience
And then turned on mankind by writing shitty books
To make them stupid
It's the enhancement of life support, Europe.
Yeah.
It's elephants love sexy
elephants.
That makes sense.
I guess they would. That makes sense, actually.
I'm the funniest one in the podcast.
Don't you fucking forget it.
Anyway, I'm Els
and I wrote another book called
Fight With Yourself!
Ya bitch!
Fight With Yourself! The cover is
a doughy, failed
clone of Stone Cold Steve Austin
wearing a karate gi.
Yep.
And this is what the book is about.
There are many ways to ascend the great
amount of understanding
to reach the gnosis. Practicing
martial arts, like Shodokin Karate,
is one of them. Cultivating
self-control, strength, capacity
to fight with the hardships of life.
But in the end, practicing martial
arts leads you to not fight anymore.
So the only fight left to
you is the fight with yourself!
Oh, right, and then after you do that,
then you can beat the evil kung fu guy wizard thing.
I've seen that movie.
Well, I mean, I feel like a lot of times when I fight with myself,
there's a dilution of my spiritual load.
Last section here is
called Poetry.
Yay!
It's the kumquat section.
So there's a
once again document provided
by Shambambamina.
There's a bunch of ones in here including
a book of poetry called Mindlessly
Mindful by Angela.F20CC.
Wow.
So that's fun.
But my name is Roman Garius.
As opposed to Greek Garius.
Yeah, you can buy my book.
It's as far as I can see, Roman Garius.
It's only $17.
Okay.
Roman Garius. It's only $17.
Okay.
An hour ago, I spied a boy with a gun
killing people just for fun.
Spied an old man
begging for a drink while
on his knees in the
filth and the stink.
Spied an old lady
eating her dinner from a
garbage can. Spied a child
selling precious body
to some godforsaken man.
Spied a place
that was so full of madness.
Spied a place where everyone lived
in total sadness.
Preach. Spied a
place about an hour ago.
Should have seen the things I now
know. Spied a place as
I prayed to death, Belle,
for I spied a place to me that looks a lot like hell.
Yay!
Oh, you wrote it all by yourself, too.
You can barely tell it's crayon.
Yeah, okay.
Also, what, uh, the world's best poetry,
what makes a poem the world's best poem?
Could it be that one causes your mind to roam?
Maybe it's the one that speaks of love or it's the one that praises the God above.
Must a poem rhyme to be accepted or does the poet need to live through what he created?
Does it need to be of sadness or is it okay that it causes just a little bit of happiness?
Does it make it better? I can't tell if this
is a poem or not.
Does it make it better if we put a name
on it or do we need to analyze
it bit by bit?
It's not a poem. Is it? Okay.
No, no, no.
Lemon's
person here, Roman, is
a poet and his medium is through vanity
press description boxes.
Oh, so it's both.
I'm well known in the
community.
In the America Star Books
description community.
Yeah.
Where the fuck was I in this shit?
Okay, must it make us laugh
or must it make us cry?
It make us sad
when we try to say goodbye.
Must it make a thousand...
It do make us sad.
It do make us sad.
It do.
Must it make a thousand women feel joy
or can it give peace of soul
to just one small boy?
See?
Is it not something to behold?
Isn't it the thought that should be cherished and told?
Could it be that each poem is at its best that should be held just as special as all the rest?
I'm Roman Garius.
It did become a poem.
Okay, maybe it is a poem.
Okay, I can see it as a poem.
I disagree.
Like I said, he is the best poet in the America's Star Books description box.
I guess the first part of it is the world's best poetry, what makes a poem the world's best poem,
could it be the one that causes your mind to roll them?
Yeah, no, it's because it's standard F-Less poetry.
They have no fucking idea about meter.
Hey, Kumquatsop.
Yes?
I love, and I know I'm not alone in this,
I love Twisted Spike poetry.
Oh, me too.
I, yes.
Boots, don't you love Twisted Spike poetry?
Oh, yes, TSP.
He's got it tattooed on his,
he's got a drawn-in Sharpie on his hand.
What's your name? I don his hand. What's your name?
I don't know.
What's your name? It's on your book.
Oh, it's on my book. My name is Eric Joel Kleinschmidt Sr.
Your name is my name, too.
Hello.
Hello.
This is...
My book is titled
Album Oografy.
That is how it's spelled.
Album Ography.
Album Ography.
It has a deep, rich Irish heritage.
Tristan Spike Poetry
presents
We've Got
Daydreams, Nightmares,
Dead Screams, nightmares, dead screams,
and light scares.
Damn.
We've got
hallucinations,
reincarnations,
and awkward situations.
Do you like how all those rhymed?
Do you like how all those rhymed?
I do, actually.
They all end in shun. I'm into the shun.
Yeah.
We are the angels and the devils
and the hammers
and the anvils.
You're the hammers and the anvils?
Yeah.
Well then, in that case,
stop hitting yourself.
Stop hitting yourself.
Is that like the mamas and the poppers?
Keep hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself. Is that like the mamas and the poppers? Keep hitting yourself.
We are storytellers
and
grizzly cave dwellers
like the bears.
My favorite MST3 game.
And sick things growing in dark
dank cellars
and we welcome you to another chapter
of light and dark and life and heart and twisting the most
faithful dog art.
What?
So prepare to get lost in the
fun park! Oh,
damn! I dare you to try to
resist my spark!
Ooh!
This is
great, really high quality
stuff.
Very pleased
that I have not had more alcohol.
So does
Gathering of the Juggalos have a poetry reading edit?
Is that what this is?
It sure as fuck does.
Juggalo rap is the modern poetry. Thank you very much.
No, I'm pretty sure they actually have a separate
poetry thing too.
No, that would make sense.
I'm pretty sure it takes place in a wrestling ring.
Why aren't we reading that?
Someone will make a doc at some point.
And then the very last book here is Nation of Silence.
Who's taking that?
Oh, I think Portak should.
Portak's taking that.
All right, terrific.
All right.
I am T. Eugene Williams, and this is
A Nation of Silence.
All I ever wanted.
It is 68 pages, and it is 17 bucks.
Good.
Great.
Me, a person whose mind is so
strong, a man whose heart grows
long during the years whose
emotions allow him to shed tears
when he misses the people he loves, he gets on his knees and prays to the stars above.
To know him is like a blessing.
To see him is like a dream come true.
If you're with him when he's sick, you will feel his pain deep inside of you.
Judge him as if you were God.
You will miss out on a very cool person.
What?
Mic drop? Mic drop?
Mic drop.
It's a nation of...
Grab that mic right off the cover and just drop.
What in the fuck?
Are you
saying you want to miss out on a very cool person,
Jack?
Shut your sass mouth then.
Damn it.
Damn it.
America Star Books,
it's a retailer as well as a...
I was going to use the word publisher,
but that's a complete misappropriation of that word.
A million quotation marks.
Yeah, but it is a...
It will sell you things,
and it will also...
I mean, I don't think these are...
Do you think these are physical?
Do you think these are... I mean, they're pretty expensive for e-books.
No, I guess they, because it says softcover and hardcover and stuff.
Sure.
So I guess you can do on-demand printing, like single copy.
Yeah.
That would actually explain the price.
But yeah, so there's a whole bunch of books in here.
And here are a few of their titles.
Living Your Divine Pure Nature,
A Spiritual Adventure in Remembering Who You Really Are
and What You Came Here to Do by Patricia L. Allen.
The Journal of Inspirational Affirmations,
Transforming Lives for a Dimensional Life
by Daniel L. Andrews Sr.
Don't know any of those words.
Yo, God, can you hear me?
It's your girl, Margaret!
It's by Kitty Arsinoe.
Dog Trek by Leah Ricardo.
Exposed World, Here After Death
by Christopher Byke.
Secret Agent Squirrel by Karen Chinnery.
He's got one hell of a job to perform for the US of A.
For the Love of Baseball and My Brothers by Serena Clark.
I hope that's not Kindle porn.
Rocky the Respectful Raccoon and His Red Sunglasses by Janet H. Councilman.
What?
Damn, that is one respectful-ass raccoon and his red sunglasses by Janet H. Councilman. What? Damn!
That is one respectful-ass raccoon! Are you a councilman
posing as an author? No.
Mrs. Bean
Takes a Holiday. Death Doesn't.
A mystery novel by Mary
Fairbanks.
What a terrible
title! Holy fuck!
My Suitcase Runneth Over,
A Dozen Personal Travel Essays Celebrating the Human Condition
by Myra J. Fournier.
No, that's a terrible title.
Yeah?
Deadly Countdown,
to be seen on TV
by Gary and Sheila
Gewertzman.
Gee-wertzman.
The Definitive Guide to Love God
by Mary Nordea Latanya Hales.
This love god?
A guide?
Yeah.
A definitive guide to love god.
To love god.
Yeah, to love god.
Cover image coming soon.
Product description coming soon.
$16.95.
What, to god?
I think we know what his deal is already.
Dane, A Life and Time Thereof, First Bounty, by Donald R. Fard, Sr.
Birth of a Queendom, by Velvet Rose Hopkins.
Oh, that's a real name.
Yep.
That is a real name.
My Gift, My Curse, My Destiny by Alicia Howard.
Raise 101 Poems of Life, Death, and Many Things in Between by Raymond J. Howlett.
Michael Jackson Rocked the World and Lives Forever by Jelk Jones.
So, Jelk Jones.
Nope. Now Jelk Jones, which is also my Steam name.
After you get tired of Jesus Jones, turn on to Jelt Jones.
The Leviathan Stone, book one, The Unicorn Saga by Natalie Jones.
The Unicorn Skaga?
Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up.
At F Plus Live 6.
Fad
dance hits and no hitters
trivia from my attic by
Denver L. Keels. The women
didn't escape, but the trivia did.
Having fun meeting the
basic... Oh my god!
Having fun meeting the basic Oh my god Having fun meeting the basic geometric
Shaped kids by Denver
Oh my god
Yeah Dozerfleet crossover
Storage auctions
This ain't TV
It's a book
They're not warring
Just auctions who cares
The mystic Guardians
Betrayal and the Death
of the False One
by Cheryl Langmeiser.
The Adventures of Critterville
Critterville
Watches Over Two Lost Children
by Jeff and Brenda Longenecker.
Longenecker.
Longenecker.
Great.
The Lust Chronicle by Tiffany M. McKenzie. Longnecker. Longnecker. Great. Sure, Puzz.
The Lust Chronicle by Tiffany M. McKenzie.
The Spider Apartments by Kathy Nelson.
Even better.
Christianity Through Wildcat Football by Kirk Pearson.
Yeah!
Like, literally?
Wildcat Football. by Kirk Pearson. Yeah! Like, literally? A Traveler's Nightmare,
A Necromancer's Dream,
A Book of Poems by J.R. Briggs.
All three of those things!
God!
And The Hillbilly
by Susan M. Roberts.
Comedy Central will cancel you immediately.
Yeah.
Bear Baby
Gets a New Baby
by
Clara Roddy Worsham.
I didn't order a bear baby, you idiots!
That is definitely Kindle porn.
Manavang's
Spectacular Adventures
A Good Time
with Family and friends.
By Eugene Penn.
Cloud
Control
by R.L. Sanders.
The search
I know what that one's about.
The search for a
dog. Special Christmas
edition by B.J.
Favor.
Whoa!
Yeah.
It's my name
and hint hint.
How did you get your publishing
job?
I got a BJ
Favor on the line.
The existential approach to psychotherapy, Death and Dying by Brenda Slaughterprice.
Oh, hi.
Cinderella, you lied to me.
Where is the fairy tale effect?
A handheld series for the wife serious about her marriage by Prophetess Adrienne Swearingen.
Jesus.
Prophetess.
There's Something Sticky in My Shoe by Rhonda L Swearingen. There's
Something Sticky in My Shoe
by Rhonda L. Terrell.
Is it your
melted foot? Nope. Rhonda
is the girl that had the moccasins.
Oh no. That's a no-hannity.
Behind Secret Walls of
Insanity by S.J. Venn.
The Human Mechanic A Call for a Paradigm Shift by Randall Sean Watkins.
Running With My Mind by Hank Bidge DeWeg.
Stock Car Babes by Stacy Lynn Whitman.
Ooh, you're a real woman.
It's better than dating a roller coaster, I assume.
The Elements of Heaven.
Univernatism.
Treatise of Psych Spirituality by R.J. Widry.
Conscience of Man.
The Lucifer Chronicles by Eugene Widman.
No, not you.
Why not me?
By Phyllis Wilson.
This book is playing with my mind, man.
I gotta find it.
You're in my head.
The Santa Slayer
by Chris G.
Jacob Ybarra.
Unconventional Assassination
Baltimore
Politics, Passion, and Power
by Ron Young.
You later became the liar. They are waiting in your room for you. Nation, Baltimore, Politics, Passion, and Power by Ron Young.
They Are Waiting in Your Room for You
by Paul Zahn.
They are? Who are they?
I don't know. It's
not a horror book like I was expecting.
So, F+, what have we
learned from any of this? I am immediately going to
publish some novels.
Yeah, yay!
What sort of novels have you had
kicking around there that you're going to get published?
Mainly, you know,
fighting with myself,
various conflicts with myself.
The computer that Dot
pooped.
I would read that.
Well, part of it is that
I don't understand why these things are in business anymore,
because I know back in the day to have your, you know, oh, I have my book published,
so now people are, everyone else gets to read my words.
That makes me super duper special and awesome.
People wanted to be authors, you know, just so they could say that,
not because they necessarily wanted to write or anything.
Sure, sure.
And now that we have the internet, though, you can,
anyone can read your words at any time.
You could put your stories up
on a blog, and everyone
can read them if they really want to.
Why are they taking such
pride in having it printed out on paper?
They still have the niche. They still have the niche,
which is that
it would be incredibly,
incredibly easy, as has been proven time and time again,
to do self-published Kindle singles.
There's a whole lot of people that put very little effort into it.
And that's fine, but that's still digital media.
And this America Star Books is actually,
they're promising that you'll get a published book.
Yeah, that's... At the very least,
that would be complicated if you were trying
to do that yourself, if you tried to get your own book
printed. That's the thing that's
kind of confusing me, though, is because
it seems like a bunch of these people just
want to have a book printed on
paper just so they can
say, oh, I'm a published author.
Yeah, sure.
But with stuff like the Kindle singles
and stuff, like, I get that, because you're kind of
distributing, getting, you know, paid for
your writing and stuff, but it seems like these people
just want them to have a printed
book just so it can,
I guess, just so they can have bragging rights?
Would you say for their own vanity?
Hmm. Huh.
You know, Brutes, it's starting to make sense to me.
You know, it's a, I mean, I thought it was really illuminating because I had always thought that, you know, like Tom Clancy was a terrible author and I was proven very wrong, in fact.
Well, no, you're not wrong.
No, no, no, no, no.
It's just a matter of degrees. say that never in all of my years did I think that anything would make me think
that here's the situation
by the situation would be a
shining bastion of
publishing powerhouse. Well, I mean, it was
at least taught. It was on message.
You know, it delivered what it promised.
Yeah. I can't
argue with that.
I'm more
surprised by that. I'm more surprised by
that. I'm surprised
by how little work is
put into so many of these.
So much of the Photoshop
or the cover image
coming soon. I don't understand
how that's possible if you're actually trying
to
get this
thing out for, like, 20 bucks.
Like, it seems like...
Wait, nope, never mind. I understand
now. I just went to the homepage
and I found a very important sentence.
If your book is written in English,
we publish it for free. We have published
over 60,000 titles at no cost
to the author.
So, that's why.
Right.
That's why the landscape is like this.
So, you know what's
actually kind of a terrifying thought?
Some of these authors
are other people's favorite authors.
No.
I'm sure they see that as just a networking
opportunity. You think so?
It's the same... I'm taking the same concept as, you know opportunity. You think so? It's the same...
I'm taking the same concept as, you know,
that shitty local band that you hate
but shows up to every fucking show?
That's somebody's favorite fucking band.
That's true, that's true.
But again, I mean, that's like Portek said,
that's a little bit more about proximity
and loyalty than anything else.
You know, like, oh, what you're reading?
Well, I also
know an author!
Us authors, huh? Like,
elbow, elbow.
Have you heard of Jelk Jones?
He wrote, We Walk Away From Love.
Have I?
Also,
also, Acceptance Love,
Dreams of Love,
Forever Wonders of Love. Like, is this, I feel love, forever wonders of love.
I feel like this is interesting that this exists in the age of the Kindle stuff.
Because, yes, I feel like the people who do this feel that their words being printed on physical paper gives it more legitimacy somehow.
And really what this is, is this is somebody else making your shitty zines.
Exactly.
Except for with
worse graphic design.
And if you're looking for a place where nobody
cares what you have to write,
you should come to Ball!
Well then.
On a side note,
Poop.computer now has an SSL certificate,
so yay.
Oh, Poop.computer has an SSL certificate?
Yeah.
Oh my god,
HTTPS Poop.computer.
Wow, I never thought I'd see the day.
Yay, bye.
This is wonderful.
Oh, it fucked up the font.
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