OK, Homos

Last night's Scarer covey (or coven?) was a failure. Frankly, I'm ashamed by all of us and pissed at Father Christmas to boot. For the first time, The Pussy Book Club Scarers gimped its way into the exhausted loonshit of mediocrity.

So! Redemption is the word used by civilians the world over to mean an atonement greater than that found through the cutting of Sunday-morning coupons for both a medium Steak Fanatic pizza and the competitor’s that pays Dan Marino to hawk his famous "Go Deep" Papa's Perfect Pan. Redemption! Homos! To redeem oneself is to find one's soul in comfortable balance when staring into the unbelievably sad face of God; The Pussy Book Club Scarers direly needs to do this. Stare at God, ye sad homos, with your souls! (and talk about what you saw on Tuesday, January 3.)

TUESDAY January 3, 8:00: Every sad homo Scarer is compelled for the good of her soul to come to the India House down the I-55 frontage road from the Sam's Lounge Love Tub to sample the colorful maize of our native peoples and, with MC, occasionally to be referenced between bites of sweet potato, dutifully and snuggly tucked between elbow and sternum, engage in boisterous discussion. We are a crapulous cooperative now representative of an irresponsible and half-assed indignity; we're not proud of that. For our own sake, let our indignities be wholly-assed! We are proud because we are annihilationists without inhibition, so let's start acting the fuck like it! So finish the Goddamn book!

Winners will get to enjoy the company of both The Diplomat and George Dickel in the frothy warmth of Sam's Lounge Love Tub. Winners are to be decided solely at the discretion of The Diplomat. Enter as often as you wish.

Meeting Today, Right?

12-20-05 8:00 p.m. STOP
PBC Scarers reconvene at Southern HQ STOP
Myrtle Street Mafia STOP
Let God bless highballs & conversation STOP

ladders and snakes and several guns if you got em

I read some of Rushdie's Art of Fiction interview in the latest Paris Review, and he said it took him five years to write Midnight. He also said he wrote "Children of Midnight" and "Midnight's Children" over and over for about two pages until he decided on Midnight's Children. Another thing: There was originally another Padma type character. Saleem sent the manuscript away to a reporter who was reading the written manuscript while Padma was listening in the room. The editor didn't like it, so he edited her out. Which I think was smart. Another thing: The whole concept of the book (special children being born on that night) was a few sentences in another book he had been writing for a year. He scrapped the year's work, and kept those sentences. Another thing: The first page is basically the way he wrote it the first time. Which book out of the following would you want to read next: Light in August, The Hamlet, The Sound and the Fury (WF) Delta Wedding, Losing Battles (EW)?