Broken Piano for President

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Mon, 07/23/2012 - 21:18
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So Bizarro author (with Lazy Fascist Press) Patrick Wensink wrote a book called Broken Piano for President.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1621050203/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk

According to Amazon, it came out in February.

Just recently Jack Daniels contacted Wensink and asked him to change the book cover because of it's resemblance to their bottles.

http://jimromenesko.com/2012/07/23/publisher-agrees-to-change-book-cover...

Here's an interview with a Jack Daniels representative.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-07-23/q-and-a-why-is-jack-dani...

But what does this really mean? Well, it put a bizarro book into the spotlight. This book is #33 overall in books in amazon sales rank. This is the highest a bizarro book has ever gotten. Small and Indy presses never see this kind of attention.

It's pretty awesome news really.

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Mon, 07/23/2012 - 21:26
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I love how "bad attention" is great publicity.

That's all I have to contribute for now.

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Mon, 07/23/2012 - 22:23
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There is no such thing as bad publicity.

Also. Something something Fair Use.

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Tue, 07/24/2012 - 17:12
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It's on Time Magazine's news feed. It was front page on yahoo for people. It's getting huge coverage!

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/07/24/jack-daniels-shows-its-sweetness-eve...

It is now #9 on amazons Seller Rank in books!

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Tue, 07/24/2012 - 17:52
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Also - The New York Times

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/jack-daniels-gives-obscure-...

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Tue, 07/24/2012 - 20:20
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MTV has retweeted the New York Times story.

The book is now #6.

Anybody who likes bizarro or just weird stories, should buy a copy. Or if you maybe just are stoked to see something great happen to a small press, buy a copy.

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Tue, 07/24/2012 - 22:34
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I bought mine with season 1 of Adventure Time (awesome cartoon!) to get the free super saver shipping. The book is currently on sale for $8.97. Amazon keeps bringing it back up and down.

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Tue, 07/24/2012 - 22:40
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I bought mine with a hardcover edition of The Watchmen that I've been meaning to buy for years now.

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Wed, 07/25/2012 - 00:57
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bradley sands wrote:
I bought mine with season 1 of Adventure Time (awesome cartoon!) to get the free super saver shipping. The book is currently on sale for $8.97. Amazon keeps bringing it back up and down.

You are awesome and I feel like an ass for still not having finished reading Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill You.
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Wed, 07/25/2012 - 01:19
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Thanks. You started but didn't finish? It's pretty short.

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Wed, 07/25/2012 - 01:25
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It's cuz I have it as a pdf on my mom's computer. No way to bookmark it and I think I was in school. I'll get around to it eventually.

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Wed, 07/25/2012 - 01:27
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Sweet.

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Wed, 07/25/2012 - 01:53
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Will have to give this one a look. The problem with the Bizzaro-fiction genre is that you can never get a straight review of the books, with reviewers getting caught up in the weird plot points and characters, with no one seemingly ever focusing on how coherent the writing and plotting is or if it's just a weird mess.

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Wed, 07/25/2012 - 02:17
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Which bizarro books did you find to be incoherent?

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Wed, 07/25/2012 - 03:31
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I've yet to actually read one, but just going off Amazon reviews etc, none of them have seemed to focus on the plotting or writing style of the genre. Will hopfully get around to reading one soon, as especially keen to read "Tentacle Death Trip" and this one sounds good aswell.

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Wed, 07/25/2012 - 03:45
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A reviewer won't ever comment on coherence unless they have trouble understanding a book. Most bizarro is very easy to follow and pretty traditional in style, but weird as far as the content.

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Wed, 07/25/2012 - 08:24
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bradley sands wrote:
A reviewer won't ever comment on coherence unless they have trouble understanding a book. Most bizarro is very easy to follow and pretty traditional in style, but weird as far as the content.

I agree with this. And that might be a misconception about bizarro that holds a lot of people from trying it.
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Thu, 07/26/2012 - 11:53
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Forbes writes an article about it:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/avidan/2012/07/26/the-worlds-nicest-cease-an...

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