Picture: a girl of 6, let's call her Dolly. She's in a dusty attic, trying to stash a forbidden Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers from her tyrannical father,Pastor Bil. She finds a loose board and finds...the photos.
Her grandmother Thelma, string of pearls sparkling,standing next to Pol Pot...on a pyramid of human skulls.
So starts this summer's must read thriller. Dolly crisscrosses the globe, searching for clues as just who this woman she knew as Grandma really is. The arc of her journey takes us to torch lit SS orgies, deadly poisonous Black Mambas in Jim Nabor's secluded island retreat, underground brises, scrapbook parties,and a final confrontation with Thelma... and her army of deadly gibbons.
Read it at the beach, read it at the dentist, read it under a bush. JUST READ IT!!!!!
A shattering read.
“What Does This Say?” by BIL KEANE
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The face of G_D has horn rimmed glasses. , March 23,2005
It's not for nothing that everything we do, see, feel, smell, eat, shave, grope, dilate these days is described as Keanian. Bil Keane is the grandfather of really just about everything, and this book, this "What Does This Say?" (to even try to name such a entity as this with the crude of human language is the height of folly. But that's marketing for you.)
Keanse breaks it all down for you. It reads like Godel's Incompleteness Theorem crossed with the libretto of "Cabaret". It's also a great distillation of everything everywhere, and gosh darn it if it doesn't make you chuckle. "What's Do This Say?" deals with the epic rise and fall of Dolly and PJ, as they kill a hobo for kicks, get VD, fight a bear in a cave, and spend a fortnight camping with Uncle Roy in Bimini.
Great stuff! If you like reality as it is practiced in this particular domain of space-time, then give it up for Keane!
Truly, this is a shattering read.
I Had A Frightmare! by BIL KEANE
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Birth Pangs of the Supermensch , March 24, 2005
Jeffy is caught -- caught between the narcotic pabulum of Church, Nation and Family and his true destiny as a Superman, a glorious being resplendent in the raiment of a new morality, one beyond the petty
distinctions of good and evil. Keane came under the spell of Mencken during a sojourn in Baltimore in the'30's. This book serves as a document of that time, a heady season of reading Nietzsche, eating oysters and wrestling a merchant seaman he knew only as Roy.
In the opening of the book, we find a debased Jeffy eating dog food from Barfy's dog dish, a 20th century man clinging to the heavy cloak of domesticity. So begins an odyssey that ends with a fierce UberJeffy
entering Babylon with the head of Dolly on a lance. When Jeffy finally sloughs off the dead skin of his slave self, he defeats the Frightmare... the Frightmare of history. Ecce, Jeffy!
A shattering read.
I Just Dropped Grandma! (Family Circus) by BIL KEANE
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A gentle exploration of the politics of mercy killing,
March 23, 2005
I revisited 'I just dropped Grandma!!' recently, just after devouring Keane's 'It stings, Mom, it stings!'and I was instantly reminded of the humanity of the early Keane, before he took up with Ezra Pound.
'I just dropped Grandma!!!' is an epic, Dickensian story, a didactic old-fashioned tale of love and loss that speaks to both the most basic human dilemmas and contentious contemporary subjects. Keane writes with an absurdist aplomb that brings laughter up from the diaphragm like so many bad oysters. PJ's appearance here is a delight -- winsome and true.
Without revealing too much, one scene in particular warmed cockles I never knew I had -- let me just say the combination of a dazed grandma, a pillow case full of lead shot and an uncooperative blanket sleeper is a madcap cocktail that will leave you incontinent from laughter. 'I just dropped Grandma!!!!!!' is an exquisite novel, one that made me reconsider my notions of death, loyalty and the sanctity of a sealed urn.
A shattering read.
COMING SOON: Thoughts on “ I COULD HEAR CHEWING,” “BEHOLD THE FAMILY CIRCUS,” and “DOLLY HIT ME BACK!”
