Willie threw some stuff my way.

First was an article something about Bret Easton Ellis and how the writer was a big, sort of pathetic fanboy.  I say pathetic because, first, fanboyism is pathetic and, second, the writer did not detail a few of the ways in which a reader should recognize that Ellis sucks:

1. He cannot write good thriller material.

2. The meta shit he pulls with framing the narrators perspective and removing credibility (or something) doesn’t make alot of sense or at least confuses more than anything artistically effective.  I’m speaking about Glamorama here.

3. Glamorama kinda sucked.  Maybe even really sucked.

So whatever; I will gladly point out the writer’s ability to find something meaningful in Ellis’ meta-ness and accurately describe Ellis’ substantial humor.

Second was a novel: the average american male by chad kultgen, published in 07.  Things didn’t look good from the beginning when the three reviews lauding the novel are authors from NYT bestseller list, a list I don’t give a great deal of credit to.  Worse, one of these authors is Maddox, a man that appears to be an internet nerd tool.

The book also claims to have inspired viral videos, which I though was weird because viral videos are defined by the quantity of stupid people referring you to the stupid video.

The viral videos can be found by on the author’s homepage and are marketing made rather than the usual stupid person posting stupid thing on YouTube.  They’re are also videos advertising kultgen’s new novel, “The Lie,” which is something about college.  None of the videos are clever or all that funny.  But I did like this one because it depicts pegging.

It should be quiet clear by now that I don’t have much to say about the novel itself and kultgen’s writing.  Willie told me he asked around for a novel with similarities to my favorite, Ellis’ American Psycho.  Unfortunately, kultgen isn’t as funny as Ellis, his satire is uneven and never very cutting or illuminating, and none of kultgen’s prose suggests any beauty/truth achieved through the use of language, something Ellis has, at times, succeded in doing.

Here are some other YouTube videos you should watch.

Angry preacher using words like nigga and beotch

Same guy without an undershit doing a funny dance

Funny story about a talking orangutan and PCP

There are other videos from this guy; good stuff