Elvis please help me I'm, damaged.

Well I'd love to see an update on the possibility of a new JW novel.

But if not we can just talk about the old ones.

I'm confessing ignorance here. I've never heard of Jack Womack. Anyone care to enlighten me?

December is Jack Womack month? Funktastic! I've only layed my peepers on uno so far, I'll have to Microsoft a few more of the ol' Gutenberg cakes this White Christmas.

I suppose I should go for Ambient first, I believe that's the official WG statement wasn't it? That's cool, I'm in the mood for some bleak heartwrenching ethnic/class injustice head kicks.

For Great Justice, Jack Move!

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Originally posted by Lester Zombie:
I'm confessing ignorance here. I've never heard of Jack Womack. Anyone care to enlighten me?

Christ, don't say that out loud here! You want to get killswitched!?

Jack Womack is a novelist and William Gibson's favorite (I think?) and friend. He's in No Maps For These Territories; there's an interview and he reads The Gernsback Continuum.

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Originally posted by Lester Zombie:

I'm confessing ignorance here. I've never heard of Jack Womack. Anyone care to enlighten me?

Born of an improbable union between soul singer Bobby Womack and ex-president John F. (Jack) Kennedy, JACK WOMACK leaped into our consciousnesses with his astounding debut novel Gimme The Salt, Bitch! I'm Jack Womack! when he was only five years old. Weaned of his father's teat by the assassin's bullet, his subsequent career consisted of whirlwind holocaust-denial tour parodies and disturbing appearances at Douglas Coupland book signings. He lives in New York and there is no known explanation for this.

Seriously, Mister Zombie, he's a novelist, one well-respected by several of the furniture here. He's also an infrequent but uncloaked poster to this board.

Google him.

"Look about people. Beef me overlong and I groundbound you express. Down down down you go down and i be bottomed ou to catch. Snatch your whispers and tape what plays then hit rewind and scream you to sleep, siren you ass and thenex you proper. Look about all you. Spec your mirror and there I be. Crazy evilness be my design if that's what needs wearing. All people herebound be evilsouled heartside, no ho they sweet talk. Shove do push and push do shove and everybody in this world leave lovelost hereafter. Lokkabout. Chase me if you want. Funnyface me if you keen but mark this when I go chasing I go catching. Eye cautious when you step out people cause I be running streetwild come nightside and nobody safes when I ride. I bite. Can't cut me now. Can't fuck me now. Can't hurt me now. No more. No more.
Nigh night Anne. Night night. I'm with the DCons now"

night night all

Happy Womack Day to all, and to all a good night!

Jack Womack does for bleak what Bruce Lee did for nunchaku.

Jack Womack does for grit what the Shackleton expedition did for stubbornness.

AO?

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Originally posted by Mean Old Man:

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Originally posted by Lester Zombie:

I'm confessing ignorance here. I've never heard of Jack Womack. Anyone care to enlighten me?

Born of an improbable union between soul singer Bobby Womack and ex-president John F. (Jack) Kennedy, JACK WOMACK leaped into our consciousnesses with his astounding debut novel Gimme The Salt, Bitch! I'm Jack Womack! when he was only five years old. Weaned of his father's teat by the assassin's bullet, his subsequent career consisted of whirlwind holocaust-denial tour parodies and disturbing appearances at Douglas Coupland book signings. He lives in New York and there is no known explanation for this.

Thanks,MOM. I thought it might be something like that.

That reminds me, I have a copy of Elvissey around here somewhere that I haven't read.

Elvissey might just be my favorite. Different kind of insight into the characters in that one. Definitely one of the top two, imho.

Come to think of it, Jack Womack is reported to be financing a documentary film- in which our gracious host William Gibson walks with the unwashed in Seattle's Pike Place market in the guise of a naive Arkansas traveller and asks passerby their opinions of current affairs.

It's to be called Gibborat.

Smile for me, baby.

It's also rumored that Womack is the only man ever to have studied the dark arts in the secret dojos of the Vatican and then left the church.

They'd kill him if they could. But they'd never have a chance.

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Originally posted by Splitcoil:
It's also rumored that Womack is the only man ever to have studied the dark arts in the secret dojos of the Vatican and then left the church.

They'd kill him if they could. But they'd never have a chance.

Their uniform distraction mind tricks do not affect him

Aha, I step away for a while and I see that this is what ensues in my absence. Very good, very good. Thank you all.

Am working on a new one (still titled Lying to Children) but the demands of full-time work and a three and a half year old daugher do cut into free writing time, I fear.

Meanwhile, read Borges. Read Shirley Jackson's "We Have Always Lived in the Castle." Read Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian." Read Ambrose Bierce's collected stories. Read Nabokov's "Pale Fire." Read Charles Fort's "Lo!" Read Luc Sante's "Low Life." Read anything by Flann O'Brien. Read anything by Flannery O'Connor. Read Christina Stead's "The Man Who Loved Children." Read anything by Herbert Asbury. Read anything by Harry Stephen Keeler, if you dare. in comic strips, read any collections of Herriman's Krazy Kat, Segar's Thimble Theater, Kelly's Pogo, Tuthill's The Bungle Family, Gould's Dick Tracy, Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie from about 1935 on.

At least something in that list should hold you, meanwhile. I'll be back.

jack womack wrote:

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Read Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian."

At least twice already.

Fortean

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CLOSED


Because it has been discovered that the earth does not revolve about the sun and does not rotate on an axis; because the "stars" have been found to be lights only a few miles away; because almost every pronouncement from this hall of learning issued since its corner-stone was so solemnly laid has been a mistake, a joke, an error or a hoax -- the older and more susceptible of the professors who once played whilst here in the shadow of the refracting telescope have gone away to die of chagrin while the younger of us take a short trip to what we have so often jokingly referred to as "the constellation Orion". Back in thirty days.

(Signed) The Astronomers -- Charles Fort, _Lo!_

Lying To Children Just in time for christmas! Am not familiar with shirley Jackson an a few others on your list there, am way intrigued though. Thanks.

full time job?