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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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“Fools love to declare that they don’t suffer fools.”

The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner

April 24, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Repulsive, decadent, and entitled people populate these pages and you know what? I do not care! I loved it! I loved it for all of the things that it tries to be, all of the things that it mercilessly tears apart, and all of the things that it will not and cannot be. This is a lightning rod for artists, revolutionaries, trust-fund princes, and girls next door. While this book takes place mostly in the 70s, I felt like I had been a part of […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 1970's Italy, 1970s New York, anti-establishment, art, bonneville salt flats, class warfare, East Village, facism, historical fiction, motorcycles, outsider art, protest, rachel kushner, soho, speed

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 1970's Italy, 1970s New York, anti-establishment, art, bonneville salt flats, class warfare, East Village, facism, historical fiction, motorcycles, outsider art, protest, rachel kushner, soho, speed ·
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Freaks, Geeks, and Automobiles

Role Models by John Waters

January 15, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 3 Comments

Oooh mama, this is not for the faint of heart! If you aren’t already a fan of John Waters and his coterie of misfits and outsiders then this is NOT the place to start! I first became aware of John Waters through the 1990 film Cry-Baby. It used to be on TV fairly frequently in the late 90s/early Aughts, and I would secretly watch bits and pieces of it when my parents weren’t in the room. I had the “flashback” button on the remote primed and […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: art, Baltimore, counterculture, cult film, cults, drag, fashion, filth, John Waters, LGTBQ, Literature, outsider art, pornography, sex

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:6 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: art, Baltimore, counterculture, cult film, cults, drag, fashion, filth, John Waters, LGTBQ, Literature, outsider art, pornography, sex ·
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