Eatin’ Our Children with a Splash of Cajun Sauce

These are the demands and sayings of Lee:

I wish that Lee would have seen how truly ironic his act was to social critiques. Yes we have too many people on this planet! Yes there are too many problems! But this has not stopped the hope of faith in something out there bigger than MAN as a solution.

Some people pray for Television to change their lives. Some pray to Jesus. Some pray to Obama. And some even pray to a yellow submarine goddess living in what was once called Atlantis. He was praying for change and a new respect for our environment, not something bad in itself, but it was misguided.

He wrote palely compared to Jonathan Swift Modest Proposal. Enjoy the read.


I am also sorry to anyone I offended in my comments about the Discovery Channel Dude.  I got caught up in my emotional display and acted out of haste, I know that there are a number of other faiths out there... and the only way to reach these people is through loving them... not pushing an agenda down their throats.

Eric El Camion Hates Imperial Bedrooms by Brett Easton Ellis

Imperial Bedrooms

By Bret Easton Ellis

(Knopf, Hardcover, 9780307266101, 192pp.)

Publication Date: June 15, 2010

Categories: Literary

Eric El Camino has hated me for loving Brett Easton Ellis novels. His feelings were a flame of burning desire. His rage burned like a bonfire set by an eddy on the beach.   He would put a chock hold on me and hang me in my locker, because he was the authority on what was good literature.  He was only thirteen but he knew better than all the other kids, and he was willing to use violence to prove it.


I consider Brett Easton Ellis one of the best writers of all time. He is one of my guilty pleasures.  There was a time when his books, even American Psycho, shaped how I interpreted the times I was part of. Ellis books are always dark, but inside that dark is a flickering light that gives hope, a promise of future glory. They are a true reinterpretation of the American Dream. Something happened to the American Dream between 1997 and 2010 (tragedy at Columbine, the twin Towers, space shuttles exploding on a return flight, the dot boom fiasco, the BP Oil Spill) taking the alluring world of Ellis and twisting it into a knot. An unyielding knot holding hope and joy locked into an affair with disillusion.


Today, I listened to the album that coincides with Ellis's new novel Imperial Bedrooms and think,

"Wow, I can't wait to read his new novel!"


I also think I will download the soundtrack and raise a toast to my innocence.

50 States of Reading Revisited: Mississippi - Eudora Welty

Podcast Highlighted: 


I was listening to PRI's selected short stories of Eudora Welty. There is beauty, vexations, truth, and imaginations in the reading of these beautiful pieces. I enjoyed them seriously: PRI Selected Shorts.