What about giving a hat tip to your favorite arts editor who COVERS THE BOOK IN HER SECTION NEXT WEEK?

Sorry. Big fucking asshole = me.

I thought Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates was good. I'm not sure if it was relevant, though. My problem with Tom Robbins is that I stopped being able to remember which things had happened in which books - like, a lot of them started blending together. (This is the same reason I stopped reading the Redwall books when I was a kid.) And then I started feeling that it was mostly pointless to continue reading the new ones. But, again, that was my problem.

At any rate, I'm looking forward to the coverage of this book in next week's Mercury.

:)

I think the answer to your question is contained in the post.

YOU bought pheromones from a rail thin stranger on a whim? Dude - just go to www.alphaero.com and they'll send you a sample if you ask them.

YOU bought pheromones from a rail thin stranger on a whim? Dude - just go to www.alphaero.com and they'll send you a sample if you ask them.

Tom got me to hitchhike from Oklahoma to living in the Virgin Islands by way of hitting the ocean at the tip of Florida and finding a boat that took aboard thumbs and cooks who know how to make southern gravy. I have chased, dated, fell in love with, and been broken by redheads. I have tried every drug with every type of medicine man and shamen I have found. I am a hot mess breathing like a bandaloop, wearing patchouli (tried the Beat), and fucking like Pan. I think I had just took acid and finished with Heinlein's Stranger when I wrecked my dad's motorcycle and had time to kill. Of course I found Tom's stories at that tender age and frame of mind. I was in need of Jesus and found him instead. Mix in reading the Illuminatus Trilogy between any of the long waits for the next novel. I dare you. My friends and I hold CRAFT as often as possible. I also have James Joyce stuck in my head, smoke Camels, troubled with very young women, love Bring In The Clowns! I give Tom a HUGE thumbs up! My children and I love B is for Beer!