Well, folks, everything goes video eventually. Now I’m doing some video book reviews, and the series kicks off with my assessment of My Life in Porn, by Bobby Blake.
liz | 12:45 PM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
Please get a lav mic.
Liz, great review! I loved the juxtaposition of the charmingly light jazz music which framed the video with the wacka wacka meka leka hi meka hiney ho depravity which you so eloquently related. You didn’t convince me that this would actually be a good read but you did convince me that you are hilarious. Thanks for the laughs!! David
Amazing that Bobby Blake and I had exactly the same experience-he at his party and me at recent Hadassah fundraiser. Who knew?
If I don’t get edited out for content- I meant ” and I at a Hadassah fundraiser” Proper grammar is important even in dirty jokes.
Absolutely hysterical!! Can’t wait for the next review!
Having just visited BookExpoAmerica, I suppose I missed his appearance and his signing. More the loss.
Trenchant juxtaposition of faith and f**k. Not being a big porn fan (not such a hot topic here), I can’t say I’ve seen him in action. You probably didn’t get down to the corner video store to pick up a copy for research purposes either.
His party anecdote you read certainly leads me to an understanding of why he would be anti-gay marriage. He’s man enough for everyone.
I hope you keep up the lit crit and keep “Lit Gloss” as a regular feature. Your attitude is very much like Sandra Tsing Loh’s, though you bring your own insight into the world. Have you been on Terry Gross yet?
Very well done, Liz.
I hope you create a vid for each review.
Dennis
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