Böcker av David Roddis

Well, slice us to ribbons under the Queen streetcar, if it isn't David Roddis, ringmaster of slowpainful.com, freshly pandemicked, all caffeine'd up and ready to dissect the world at large with his scalpel of finely-wrought prose. And then some!Does the standard gay hook-up require actual teleportation? What are the skipping rhymes of Gen Z? Who's Laurel to Greta Thunberg's Hardy on Planet Titanic? What would William Blake's twenty-first-century Proverbs of Hell sound like? And did Judy Garland fake her own death, only to return as former child star Ethylene Glum? In his second round-up of personal and political essays - witty, caustic, provocative and downright off-the-wall hilarious - Roddis speaks with the impassioned, authentic voice of the generation of gay men who were famous for just being funnier."...David Roddis breathes life into a nearly lost art of arch wit, making it great to be gay again." -Shaun Proulx, Sirius XM

Gather Ôround, peeps, for some sparkling, startling lessons in old-school fabulousness, including a bitch-slap from Big Gay Pope David; a breathtaking ride on a ÒGigolo;Ó and even a photography master class with that insufferable Canadian superstar and adulte terrible David DeLaRoddis,ÒThe Guy With The Eye.Ó In this debut collection of personal essays Ñ a veritable treasure trove of bons mots and quirky alter egos, as well as a tongue-in-cheek memoir and a rallying cry of solidarity Ñ David Roddis aims his wry, devastating wit at Canadian and U.S. politics, pineapple Freezies and just about everything in between, not sparing himself a few self-deprecating jabs in the process. Blending sixty-plus years of defiant survival into vintage Champagne, and with a voice that runs the gamut from caustic to camp, satirical to (almost) lyrical, Roddis ultimately reminds us that, however desperate the situation may appear, it's never serious.