A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst (2 Viewers)

I used to go into either/or in Hermosa Beach and pull out the two or three copies of alternative man they had there and prop them up front-cover-out on the shelf. I'm sure the staff really appreciated that. But you gotta do what you gotta do.
;)
 
ok hosh, i'm gonna come clean. i want nothing to do with this book. i recently discovered this writer who does these "poemstories", and it's changed the way i think of the written word. you were cool in my book for awhile, but now i think your shit is weak. LAST WEEK.
 
Well, the truth is, I'm not a big enough man to take my lessons from anyone but me. So I fumble along as best I can...

ok hosh, i'm gonna come clean. i want nothing to do with this book. i recently discovered this writer who does these "poemstories", and it's changed the way i think of the written word. you were cool in my book for awhile, but now i think your shit is weak. LAST WEEK.

I humbly respect your decision. It's because I'm losing my hair, isn't it?
 
Anyone want's to know what Hosh looks like:

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Sorry brah, they were bound to see you sooner or later.
 
Man who'd risk his neck for his brotha man? Check
Complicated man, that no one understands but his woman? Check.
The cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about? Check.
Picked up your man Leroy and threw him out the goddamned window? Check.
Black private dick who's a sex machine with all the chicks?...uh...

Well 4 outta 5 ain't bad!
 
Indeed. I'm hoping we can make some more when I'm there. Maybe some of my profile graphic as well, maybe 70 of each?
And hardbacks.
Oh, and clamshells.
Then there's the broadsides...
Sheesh, we've got a lot to do...
 
For your reading pleasure: Two excerpts from the DRINKS section of the index at the back of the book:


flask, a little, 36
forties, a bunch of, 77
furniture polish, it almost tastes as good as, 153
girly, umbrella, 235
glasses, a small battalion of, 145
Guiness, bottles and bottles, 37
Guinness, 18
Guinness, a yard of, 179
Guinness, and single malt, 198
Guinness, another pint of, 169
Guinness, bottles of the old, and all, 235
Guinness, more, and another Scotch, 161
Guinness, to cleanse the palate, 272



shots, why not, 179
some shit like that, 170
something to take the stink off, 36
Springbank Single Vat 1966, 286
Steel Reserve 211, high gravity, 77
Tanqueray and tonic, 239
taurine, pure, 68
Tecate, 139
Tecates, rocking down, 277
tequila, a bottle of, between her thighs, 196
tequila sunrises, two, 196
TNT’s, fourteen apiece, 205
 
From the FIRST LINES section of the index:

At a bachelor party, 266
In a backyard full of cool, smart, beautiful girls, 196
At a bar in Nob Hill, 284
At a bar in San Diego,, 102
Beers and beers and beers, 215
Bleary-eyed at Jack’s, 205
At the chalet, 295
A coconut margarita on the 4th of July, 235
Coming up on 3am, and jezus, 49
A cop wakes you, 168
Cracking open another Pabst, 152
Cut off from three places, 195
And dear god what are you thinking, 208
At the Dingo Bar, 71
 
The paperbacks arrived that will soon be stripped and made into glorious hardcovers and clamshells....

It almost hurts to remove these covers as they have a really nice suede feel to them. Not like your standard paperback. Really a sweet job...

Bill
 
A few samples from the FRAGMENTS section of the index:

another drop of this poison, 15
another fantastic year, 118
another New Year’s, 49
another perfect drunken night on the planet earth, 106
Apocalypse Now, 179
are-you-fucking-insane? look, 46
arroyo, a nice, soft, natural, 237
ass, grabbing her, 22
ass, pinches your, 196
ass, what an unreasonable, 306
asshole, Bud Light and Ford Mustang kind of, 202



breasts, cupping her, 22
brutal Islay Scotches, 235
bubbling, roiling fun, and trouble, 215
Bud Light and Ford Mustang kind of asshole, 202
Buddha, thank the fat baby, 218
bullshit. I didn’t do that, 263
bumbling Kenny G of blather, 49
bunch of pot brownies, 140
burgers and brats, 317



dad, Scotch with your, 212
dad, with your, 169
dancing crazy, 32
Das, the Indian guy, 110
David-Lee-Roths off, 124
the day officially comes apart, 220
dead weight, you collapse like, 218
deking with the tennis ball hockey-style, 22
delicious little moments, 308
Deliverance, dueling-banjo types, 139
delivered, or saved, or rescued, 297
destroyed on opiated whiskey, and pickled cobra eggs, 303
dictionary caught in a combine., 145
 
Well, they've been ordered. Now, we wait a week and Hosho McCreesh will be on the shelf in a Barne... erm, Generic National Corporate Bookshoppe.

And now WE wait a week and a bit for a PHOTO to post across the various social medias! Thanks, again, for subtly encouraging Barne...erm, the Generic National Corporate Bookshoppe to carry something readable.

Now all we need is a riot...
 
I hope that's ok my posting that. I would have bought a copy direct from the site itself but the postage almost doubles the price of the book to send all the way to England so I thought anyone else put off by that might be interested.
 
All good, for sure. I know the postage is awful -- it's enough to almost reconsider catapults. I would never begrudge anyone who wants to get one of my books. It will always be an honor for me. So thank you for supporting the book.
 
This just in A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst by some mysterious guy with the strangest name, Hosho McCreesh! I think i'll give it a spin. Although i'm a little wary. The cat can't put a pic of himself in there? Hmmm. Does this Hosho person actually exist?

All kidding aside, way to go mother-ef'r! I'm already bustin a gut about burritos, doctor watches, Van Halen, fireworks, "mixes drinks like he's conducting the symphony". And a thank you? Nooo. Thank you. I shall raise my glass and nod my chin baby!
 
A birdie told me that a certain book arrived in-store today... I'll get some pictures tomorrow, or whenever I have time to set it up someplace. Super-geeked out about it!
 
That makes this a proud day indeed! Hardback and clamshells are well underway at BoSP HQ...we're shaping up for an all-nighter now that we've got steak-taco-and-Negra-Modelo power!
 

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