BOOKS! The New Magazine!

I'm a fan of reading. No one seems to do it anymore, but everyone I know seems to always be reading something so maybe that's not true. Nobody rads enough. I know I don't. I read about two or three books a month. A year ago that number was closer to six and I was proud of that. I wasn't do shit else, but I was reading like it was my job and essentially it was. I just wasn't getting paid.

Right now I'm reading a book by Ritch Shydner and Mark Schiff, two comedians that I'm 90% sure you've never heard of. It's a collection of road stories by over 100 famous and non-famous working comics that vary from their worst experiences, successes, and just plain old bizzare stuff. The book's called I Killed and if you're a comic it's very interesting. If you're a citizen then you might still enjoy it. In the same way that I imagine you'd enjoy the movie "Comedian."

The next book on my shelf is Catch 22, which I'm really excited to pick up. I used to own it, but Dan Tovrov borrowed it from me in 2004 and I never got it back from him. I don't think I ever asked for it again. We used to trade a lot of books. You should exchange some books with someone else. Like a writing buddy it's a reading buddy.

I should fucking host my own book show. Like the new Reading Rainbow. Man, I hated that show when I was a kid. That was a show that would come on and I'd look for the remote like it was kryptonite and Superman was after me. That show was on for twenty-one years, from 1983 to 2004 and they still air reruns on PBS. That is a lot of children's books. How many times can Spot run across the yard? Apparently more than Terrell Owens.