fat men from space

Favorite books: The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death by Daniel Pinkwater

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I think this photo explains itself. I bought this in a library second-hand bookshop. #booksthataren'tgaybutshouldbe

Even though, this is a book that is meant for 8 year olds, the book is fucking hiarilous. A classic book without a doubt.

Reading Daniel Pinkwater’s Fat Camp Commandos while at my local library with my son.

Parallel universes! Alternate dimensions!

While the whole book is worth it, I found this particular chapter about eating a baked potato to be especially resonant with how I feel about making art and life in general. 

(via Daniel Pinkwater’s brilliant, hilarious, life-changing books as $3 ebooks - Boing Boing) Of all of these, I highly recommend both Fat Men From Space (which will comfortably be read by most adults in an hour or less and describes the ravaging of Earth’s fast food, sugary snacks, and fat-laden delights by bespectacled, plaid suit wearing fat men from space) and The Last Guru, which offers an alternative interpretation of enlightenment and spirituality which profoundly affected my young mind by suggesting ever so artfully and gently that there was nothing wrong with me after all. I am excited for these. He’s still my favorite author of all time.

One Saturday, while playing around his father’s desk, young Pinkwater found two blackjacks, those small elastic clubs used to knock out detectives in 1940s radio dramas. Pinkwater asked his father why he needed two blackjacks. “The black one with the grey suit, the brown one with the blue suit,” Pinkwater’s father said.

http://www.bsckids.com/2014/10/geek-girl-navigating-the-world-the-pinkwater-all-hallows-read/

Daniel Pinkwater reads some classic poetry by renowned beat poet Jonathan Quicksilver.

Not so much Inappropriate as odd. I’m sure it’s a great read.

(from The Worms of Kukumlima by Daniel Pinkwater, 1981)

from The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Pinkwater