Double the Donihe!
Sometimes I catch up on books that came out a while ago but I've only just gotten my little mitts on ... so here's a bonus twofer! The Greatest Fucking Moment in Sports, and The Traveling Dildo Salesman, by the one and only Kevin L. Donihe!
Title: The Greatest Fucking Moment In Sports
Author: Kevin L. Donihe
Publisher: Eraserhead Press
Website: http://eraserheadpress.com/
Story behind the review - so there I was, loitering at the Eraserhead Press booth at Living Dead Con, the way one does, because that’s where I find most of my favorite people. Sure enough, there staffing the table were Kevin Donihe and Jeff Burk, and in the course of their work, the former happened to notice this one particular book had been stuck in inventory for nine whole years.
So, naturally, I snapped it up right then and there. Wasn’t one I’d read yet, chance to get it signed, hey. Then I wound up reading the whole thing one morning after work when I was supposed to be going to sleep on time.
I’m not even a sports fan. Turns out, I didn’t have to be. This riotous weird read involves sports, yes - and the greatest *bleeping* moment in it sure is one that’d top any “thrill of victory / agony of defeat” highlight and blooper reel - but there is much more to it. Much, much more.
Like bug-poetry. And walrus-worship. And ninjas. And the perils of live-broadcast news. Rivalries. Love. Loss. Forbidden attraction. Ebola. A spiraling intensity of events hurtling toward a world-shaking transformative culmination that defies any expectations.
Plus, illustrations by the one and only Carlton Mellick III … I don’t know how this book managed to end up in inventory Limbo as long as it did, but, it’s mine now, it was waiting for me, and you’ll just have to get your own so there nyah!
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Title: The Traveling Dildo Salesman
Author: Kevin L. Donihe
Publisher: Eraserhead Press
Website: http://eraserheadpress.com/
There are pluses and minuses to both sides of the ebook vs. print book debate, but I will say, it probably would’ve been a lot less awkward to read this one electronically. It isn’t exactly, um, discreet. Not only is there the title front and back (with the most pertinent word in BIG YELLOW LETTERS), but the cover art depicts a cheerful bunch of neon-colored sex toys with grins and googly eyes.
Subtle, it ain’t. Many, many other things, however, it is. Hilarious and baffling to begin with, but before you realize what’s happening, you’ve wandered into a bleak and maddening existential nightmare. With dildos, but, their involvement is far less erotic romp and far more along the lines of the stuff you see online where people ‘open carry’ or mail boxes of dicks.
The second half of the book is rounded out with five short stories, some of which do involve sex … if of rather strange sorts … lawnmower fetish isn’t something one often hears about. “Milky Agitation” and “Revenge of the Living Masturbation Rag” both manage to pack worlds of weird into a mere two pages each.
Definitely an entertaining read, not to mention a great gift or something to buy extra copies of and leave around in surprising locations for unsuspecting passers-by!
**
Title: The Greatest Fucking Moment In Sports
Author: Kevin L. Donihe
Publisher: Eraserhead Press
Website: http://eraserheadpress.com/
Story behind the review - so there I was, loitering at the Eraserhead Press booth at Living Dead Con, the way one does, because that’s where I find most of my favorite people. Sure enough, there staffing the table were Kevin Donihe and Jeff Burk, and in the course of their work, the former happened to notice this one particular book had been stuck in inventory for nine whole years.
So, naturally, I snapped it up right then and there. Wasn’t one I’d read yet, chance to get it signed, hey. Then I wound up reading the whole thing one morning after work when I was supposed to be going to sleep on time.
I’m not even a sports fan. Turns out, I didn’t have to be. This riotous weird read involves sports, yes - and the greatest *bleeping* moment in it sure is one that’d top any “thrill of victory / agony of defeat” highlight and blooper reel - but there is much more to it. Much, much more.
Like bug-poetry. And walrus-worship. And ninjas. And the perils of live-broadcast news. Rivalries. Love. Loss. Forbidden attraction. Ebola. A spiraling intensity of events hurtling toward a world-shaking transformative culmination that defies any expectations.
Plus, illustrations by the one and only Carlton Mellick III … I don’t know how this book managed to end up in inventory Limbo as long as it did, but, it’s mine now, it was waiting for me, and you’ll just have to get your own so there nyah!
**
Title: The Traveling Dildo Salesman
Author: Kevin L. Donihe
Publisher: Eraserhead Press
Website: http://eraserheadpress.com/
There are pluses and minuses to both sides of the ebook vs. print book debate, but I will say, it probably would’ve been a lot less awkward to read this one electronically. It isn’t exactly, um, discreet. Not only is there the title front and back (with the most pertinent word in BIG YELLOW LETTERS), but the cover art depicts a cheerful bunch of neon-colored sex toys with grins and googly eyes.
Subtle, it ain’t. Many, many other things, however, it is. Hilarious and baffling to begin with, but before you realize what’s happening, you’ve wandered into a bleak and maddening existential nightmare. With dildos, but, their involvement is far less erotic romp and far more along the lines of the stuff you see online where people ‘open carry’ or mail boxes of dicks.
The second half of the book is rounded out with five short stories, some of which do involve sex … if of rather strange sorts … lawnmower fetish isn’t something one often hears about. “Milky Agitation” and “Revenge of the Living Masturbation Rag” both manage to pack worlds of weird into a mere two pages each.
Definitely an entertaining read, not to mention a great gift or something to buy extra copies of and leave around in surprising locations for unsuspecting passers-by!
**