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The James Frey Super Badass Killer book tour hit the Blender Theater this week, and the sleepy burg called New York is still reeling from the overpowering awesomeness. This tour, you'll recall, is not just some punk ass reading at Borders; no, it's a heavy metal-blasting punch of literary skill right in the face. Fiction writer Frey "walked through his adoring fans flanked by two huge body-builders," then read while hardcore Terry Richardson photos of guns flashed on a screen behind him. Someone asked Frey about writer's block. "Writer's block is for chumps," he replied. Step back, abstract psychological concept! At least Frey is bringing some energy to his book tour, as terrible as they usually are. But where was all that overpowering machismo when he was taping this Barnes & Noble promo earlier this week?:
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James Frey Challenges Writer's Block To A Fight
9:42 AM on Thu May 15 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
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Gnarly. Makes me want to throw an extra shot of guano in my Tang.
writer's block is for squares.
"Ah ha ha ha HA! Delightful!"
Great. "Writer" as thug (propped up by real muscle).
Another concept whose time really needn't have come.
Terry was my idol in my midteens. What a fool I was
Mickey Spillane would've used this guy for a urinal cake.
I heard that last night he challenged the Hulkster to a memoir match-off.
Yeah, they call me Frey Man. What? You wanna read a book? I'll read ya a book. "Fuck you. The end." How's that for a book? Now go get me a chocolate filled croissant sandwich from the Barnes and Noble Starbucks so I can read Eat Pray Love in peace, you grinnin' twatfaced miserly screwbag.
Who says "chumps"? What is this, 1944?
I challenge jam to be even more yummy.
He looks yummy, I guess, but can you IMAGINE the guy in bed? First you have to act all interested in his smarty-pants conversation, then the sex would be all boring, like slow-bunny, and the next morning you'd find out that he was using a fake penis or something.
@CodePink: This is very funny.
@CodePink: "grinnin' twatfaced miserly screwbag"
Goood Mornin'!
He looks yummy, I guess, but can you IMAGINE the guy in bed? First you'd have to act all interested in his smarty-pants conversation, then the actual sex would be boring, like slow-bunny, and the next morning you'd find out that he was using a fake penis or something.
What? He didn't strut in Sherman Hemsley style to "Mama Said Knock You Out"? Hack.
Well, he's got a lot of dick grow back after Oprah skinned him so this all makes perfect sense.
@TheHonJudgeSmails: @fiveinchtaint: I'm so crazy butch, right?!?!
Writer's block is for... jerks. No. Losers? No. Unwashed, unlaid, bad-tattoo-wearing denim-jacketed whackoffs still suckling at their mama's teat? No, that reads like the kind of crap in a Gawker comments section. Pansies! Yes, pansies! No, no, that's lame... Anyway I like the flowers. Poopheads, no, why bother. Argh, why can't I get this right? I feel like such a chump!
@lawyergay:
Good one.
PPS. Writer's block shouldn't be a problem if, in terms of originality and pacing, your work
is like Alvin Lee's solo on "I'm Going Home."
Didn't the t-shirt peeking out beneath the rugby shirt look die way back in '87?
I am the wussrus.
What is he talking about? He HAS writer's block. What he doesn't have is typist's block. (Apologies to Truman Capote.)
@KarenUhOh: @GollyG: Forget Spillane - Capote would've used Frey for a urinal cake.
And then told Johnny all about it. Or at least Dick.
So is the truth, right Jimmy?
James Frey: knock him down and he pops right back up. I can't wait to see his next appearance on Oprah.
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