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One Eventful Day In Mississippi -
"If only my comic brilliance could be brought to the attention of classy babes like Uma Thurman and Renee Zelweger!"
"You gotta quit screwin' around on the Internet and put out a BOOK! That's what the classy babes go for - BOOKS!"
John Saleeby wrote for the National Lampoon when he was in High School and was a stand up comic in New York in the eighties. But everybody in New York was a stand up comic in the eighties so Saleeby went back to The South where he got a night shift job at a psychiatric hospital and began writing for the Internet humor zine Acid logic. The Awful Waffle is a collection of Saleeby's best Acid Logic material as well as some stuff from a notebook he found in his living room while looking for his copy of that early nineties Playboy with pictures of Drew Barrymore.
"I never did find that Playboy with Drew Barrymore in it."
"You gotta quit looking at pictures of classy babes and put out a BOOK!"
"You stole that Playboy from my living room, didn't you?"
"Yeah."
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Stefan Ingelsen
reviewed The Awful Waffle:Hi Cholesterol Humor on March 07, 2013 The Awful Waffle
I think Jerome K. Jerome (curious name) is somewhat misrepresented as a humour author. His essays are certainly readable, and there's frequent humour ("He listened to me in rapt ecstasy. I might have been music.") but he's often capable of serious thoughtful comments about our habits and society in general: "Will it matter to the ages whether, once upon a time, the Union Jack or the Tricolour floated over the battlements of Badajoz? Yet we poured our blood into its ditches to decide the question... Why, if the universe be ordered by a Creator to whom all things are possible, the protoplasmic cell? Why not the man that is to be? Shall all generations be so much human waste that he may live? Am I but another layer of the soil preparing for him? ... Looking back the little distance that our dim eyes can penetrate the past, what do we find? Civilizations, built up with infinite care, swept aside and lost."
This book (and the first, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow) certainly aren't all this serious, but the fact that he can weave together an easygoing intelligence, humour and impressive observations make him as thoroughly enjoyable as he is worthy of your time. At one point a "put out the stars" reference seemed to me to be the inspiration for the famous W.H Auden poem, Funeral Blues. Based on these, I'm looking forward to another non-fiction title of his, Diary of a Pilgrimage.
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