10/15/06

a book review by gene morgan

portraits

by ellen kennedy and tao lin
quite a few portraits in this book. forty. very long for a collection of both established and non-established writers, people both ellen and tao know or know about. i don't own any other portrait books.

some of the drawings are a little garish for pen drawings on graphing-ruled cards. i don't know what i mean by garish. something about the layout and colors of brian beatty, to be even more vague.

XXX SPOILER ALERT XXX

johannes goransson is a soccer ball. john updike is a princess. i am a 6'2" bear holding an ax, even though i am 6'5" and human without an ax. this can only mean everyone is something they are or are not, if you feel like thinking critically.

i'm pretty sure nick antosca doesn't carry around a chainsaw, and justin taylor does not have pizza for hands.

XXX END OF SPOILER ALERT XXX

this book is a great gift for anyone wanting to know how ellen kennedy and tao lin view people that are in some way connected to ellen kennedy and tao lin. people who know ellen kennedy or tao lin or any combination of the two should own this book. people who know ned vizzini should own this book.
portraits by ellen kennedy and tao lin
ass hi books, september 2006
$13.50 on ebay

7 Comments:

Blogger Richard Yates said...

i forgot that justin taylor has pizza for hands. that was good.

3:44 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

i forgot about the pizza also. i remember the beatty.

remember the beatty.

2:45 PM  
Blogger Richard Yates said...

great beatty

5:20 PM  
Blogger Richard Yates said...

i want to make the descent 2 but have it be the same movie just replace all the cave beasts with brain beatty

5:20 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

i want to remake all of steve irwin's things but replace all the animals with brian beatty

8:15 PM  
Blogger Richard Yates said...

i want to hug the sting ray that attacked him

9:12 PM  
Blogger Tyler Young said...

whenever you two jabber back and forth it sounds like your little thoughts are slapping against each otherlike hampster balls slapping against the ass of a hampster prostitute

pit pit pit pit pit pit pit

that's what your thoughts sound like to the rest of the world

12:28 AM  

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