My co-worker Jason saw that I was reading The Boy Detective Fails and so loaned me Hairstyles of the Damned.
Hey, that Joe Meno can write. Hairstyles is a year in the life of a high school kid, Halloween 1990 - Halloween 1991. He's a misfit, at the bottom of the social ladder, and music is very important to him. Am I on repeat here?
And in the same way that you might be spooked by odd shadows or strange noises if you watch too many horror movies, I was finding that reading all these high-school-kids-not-fitting-in books was making me nervously reexamine my high school memories to see if I had really been as well-adjusted as I think I was. (I mean, I was a dork, but a relatively happy dork.)
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Yup, Joe Meno is one eloquent bastard. Charlene hearts him mucho, and we're gonna check out "Boy Detective Fails" tomorrow night at the House Theatre. Free Joe Meno Q&A and signing post-show!
Posted by: dan | June 14, 2006 2:18 PM
Probably my favorite of his 3 (published) books. Still need to get my hands on that other one. WINK.
I missed the Joe Meno signing because I'm too goddamn busy with the theaterz.
Posted by: Dan Telfer
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June 14, 2006 4:14 PM