Thanks to Forever Dying Brightly for mentioning Operation EMU:
“Some of the best things come by way of serendipity, and in the case of books, it’s often the one you never looked for but that came to you that makes for an interesting read. That’s how I’m looking at ‘Operation Emu’, by B. Brandon Barker , a book that came to me through email.
Being a conspiracy theorist, and seeing the ‘Operation’ part, I of course went off to look for any Operation Emu. After all, it’s not the first time that birds have been used to name ops, although I had never heard of EMU. Quite quickly I found that it wasn’t an op I was looking at but a book. A good one at that, done in the footsteps of authors I admire like Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Robbins.
So far, and I’m only three chapters in mind you, it’s a thoroughly entertaining read! I could quote but that would spoil it…go read. Click on the pic or on the link below…”
http://foreverdyingbrightly.com/blog/2010/02/operation-emu/
Yeremiah Bell: Strong Safety for the Miami Dolphins or martyred infant of Serena Butler, Priestess of the Jihad?
Mayra Calvani, author of “The Slippery Art of Book Reviewing,” has written 
I’ve checked out most of Paul Weller’s albums–all good–but none of them come close to Wild Wood (1993). The only thing that comes close to it–in the sense that it can’t be stopped after it’s started–is Who’s Next or Astral Weeks.
Sometimes, but not often enough, one of my short stories gets published. “The Movie of Your Life,” which is about… well, just that, will appear in the Spring issue of Global City Review.
My friend Simon Evans is having his first solo NY show, and it’s really spectacular. When I first met Simon, he was writing short stories–really brilliant ones, short, whimsical and funny. Years later, he began drawing and making collages, but he never really stopped writing, making his work fun to read as well as look at. Here are some words from the press release:
From Pitchfork’s Bob Stanley:
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