What is included with this book?
Notes Toward a Definition of the Inappropriate: An Apologia | p. 1 |
The Puerto Rican Lockhorns Reunion | p. 4 |
The Turds of Billyburg | p. 10 |
Hot Blooded | p. 15 |
Being a short account of the author's former band, which was composed of middle-aged men and named Fear Itself | |
A. I. Wanna Rock 'n' Roll All Night | p. 18 |
Revising the Footlicker Story | p. 33 |
Notes Toward a Philosophy of the Inappropriate | p. 43 |
Which contains some contextualization that the author wishes were helpful for preparing the reader for the essay on mooning which is to follow | |
Mooning: A Short Cultural History | p. 44 |
My Ass Life in the West | p. 64 |
Being a collection of transcripts of hypothetical scenes from The Catcher in the Rye, as performed by the author and six non-native speakers of English in downtown Brooklyn | |
The Difference Between Chickens and Goats | p. 70 |
Being a collection of excerpts from the Notebook of the Best Administrative Aide in the World, with action taking place at the New York University's film department | |
An Inappropriate Commonplace | p. 81 |
On Late Style | p. 85 |
Or, Remembering Tartuffe | |
Are You Hot Enough to Play with Journey? Todd Rogers Is | p. 87 |
Pulling the Muse's Finger: A Fartspotter's Guide to Poetic Passings of Wind | p. 119 |
Being a collection, with some minor explications, of references to flatulence in English poesy, and along with it thoughts on high seriousness | |
Two Imitations of Christ | p. 133 |
being an account of two encounters with fellow writers at a remote artist colony in Southwestern Virginia | |
Bob and Tom's Fish and Fry | p. 135 |
Or, A Sentence Combining Worksheet, presented here for readers to gain valuable skills in English grammar and usage, by joining simple and complex sentences herewith presented | |
Queries | p. 142 |
Takin' Care of Jesus | p. 153 |
Concerning ApologetiX, the Best-Known Christian Rock Parody Band in the Land, in which the author explores varieties of heretical experience, learns some Deuteronomy, and explores the etymology of parodiety | |
The Case for Upsizing | p. 170 |
An Inappropriate Discourse | p. 186 |
Being a Contact Narrative of the author with the term "inappropriate comment," to which is subjoined a Retrospective Analysis of the use of the terms Sacred and Profane, and its possible connection with being a Poet xxx | |
Goodbye to All Them | p. 189 |
Concerning a largely sincere and bitchy account of the author's exit from New York City, the low-stakes world of the New York poetry scene, and the practice of writing poetry in the Big Apple in general | |
Garden Path Paragraphs: Variations on Eggs, Faith, Doubt, and Fathering | p. 199 |
Being an account of the author and wife's pursuit of a child, subjoined with discourses on teaching, pornography, and "irritable reaching after fact & reason" | |
The Talk Box Reveries | p. 221 |
Being the tale of the Author's acquisition of a talk box, perhaps the most ridiculous electric guitar effect invented, in his last Livin'-on-a-Prayer-hurrah attempt to rock the fuck out | |
Yes I Tan: The Indoor Tanning Diaries | p. 233 |
Being the author's account of fake-baking across the Greater Capital Region, pale-faced poets, blackfaced co-eds, and tingle creams | |
Timeline of the Author's Inappropriate Acts, Selected, c. 1968-Present | p. 244 |
A Necessary Exposition of Events, Circumstances, and Incorrectly Taken Liberties, related and unrelated, to the author's writing and assembling of this collection | |
Acknowledgments | p. 257 |
A being a thank-you list of editors and other people who have put up with the author's improprieties | |
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