tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753432483342845232024-02-08T04:02:46.098-08:00The UnpublishablesAn antiquated blog no one reads from the future author of the Dead Wrestlers trilogyMichael Frissorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17383279175709373408noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375343248334284523.post-50462066923538415402014-04-08T04:57:00.000-07:002014-04-08T04:57:07.050-07:00Interview and Guest Blog<i>As of May I will no longer be an author at WAMM. Below are my interview and guest blog from that site, both of which I wanted to rescue before they disappear forever.</i><br />
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<span class="fw_sanitized"><strong>1. Where is the best place for you to go to people-watch?</strong> <br /><br />In
a tall tree with a pair of binoculars just outside the window you’re
peeping through. Not too close. Pick a tree close enough to see, but far
enough that you won’t get caught.<br /><br />If you’re not the adventurous
type, the mall is a really good place to go, especially for a parent. A
mall play area or a park is great. You're people-watching skills can
also double as pedophile-detecting powers. I also like any kind of
event: a fair, a carnival, or if you can get to a demolition derby, run,
don’t walk. That is some fantastic people watching.<br /><br /><strong>2. Do you base your characters on real people?</strong> <br /><br />There
are some that have the pleasure of being born from actual people. For
example, ”Seven Stages" started out that way – based on friends of mine,
maybe a little of myself - and then went into all sorts of bizarre
areas and there ended up being no trace of reality whatsoever. There are
a couple of stories in Puppets Shows - and these are the ones that are
my personal favorites - in which, in my head, there’s a character who is
W.C. Fields or Groucho Marx. Way to make myself sound 100 years old! I
won’t say which stories. We can make a game of it. Read Puppet Shows and
guess which character is Fields and what character is Groucho. The
winner gets absolutely nothing.<br /><br /><strong>3. You write about a superhero in your book. Who is your hero?</strong> <br /><br />We
all know who people say the true heroes are: firefighters, policemen,
soldiers, the 2004 Boston Red Sox, The Green Hornet, The Blue Blazer,
Hiro the Japanese train from Thomas & Friends. But there's one group
of heroes who don't get any kind of recognition, certainly not from the
movie studios today. I don't know who producers think Mariah Carey, the
Foo Fighters and Bonnie Tyler were referring to when they sang about
heroes, but to me it was these guys, the protectors of the city of Good
Haven. I'm talking about the Mighty Heroes.<br /><br />I'm talking about
Strong Man, with his southern accent and jet-propelled punch; Rope Man,
the dock worker who always gets tangled in himself; Tornado Man, the
meteorologist with the wheezy voice; Cuckoo Man, my personal favorite,
the bird shop owner who changes in a cuckoo clock in lieu of some silly
phone booth; and Diaper Man, the ginger infant who will knock super
villains out cold with his baby bottle. These guys, and I pay homage to
them in Puppet Shows, are my heroes, and have been since I was a wee
lad.<br /><br /><strong>4. In hindsight, many of us find that our writing
was impacted by our schooling. What was your favorite assignment in high
school English, your least favorite, and the one that affected you
most?</strong><br /><br />My favorite assignment, or the one I can remember
anyway, was in eighth or ninth grade a teacher asked us to write an
essay making fun of something (Which today sounds ridiculous. You don't
make fun of something! That's bullying!). I wrote about The National
Enquirer. The teacher read it in class and some kids laughed, but this
one girl accused me of stealing the jokes from Reader's Digest. I denied
it, of course, mainly because I wouldn't admit to stealing, but also
because I had actually stolen the jokes from "Weird Al" Yankovic and
watermelon-smashing comedian Gallagher. So she was dead wrong. What kind
of hack steals from Reader's Digest?<br /><br />That’s how my writing
career began was stealing. I remember writing something for another
class that was about cannibalism, the idea of which I stole completely
from Monty Python's "Undertaker's sketch." My story was two guys
discussing eating one of their deceased mothers: a complete replica of
the Python sketch. I had no shame back then.<br /><br />My least favorite
one was we had to do movie reviews, which I hate the idea of writing
even today. We had to write two of them, and I couldn't have picked two
more forgettable films. One was Mad House, the John Larroquette/Kirstie
Alley comedy. The other was Body Slam, a wrestling movie starring Dirk
Benedict and Tanya Roberts, along with Roddy Piper and Captain Lou
Albano. I was always putting wrestling references into things I wrote in
high school. It's really no different today. I'm actually amazed at how
low Puppet Shows is on wrestling references. Readers should thank me
for that. My poetry books are chock full of them.<br /><br /><strong>5. You’re stuck on a deserted island with only three books and one other author. Name the books and the author then tell us why.</strong><br />They
would have to be substantial books that would keep me busy for a long
time and perhaps make me want to go drown myself in the ocean. I always
think people sound pompous when they bring up James Joyce, but the first
two books would be Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake. Ulysses I read years
ago and always said I'd read it again and haven't, and I've told myself
for years I would read Finnegan's Wake and haven't. So, with any luck,
I’ll end up on an island with Evangeline Lily and a smoke monster and
get to read those.<br /><br />The third book would have to be the Bible, the
author of which, of course, is a bunch of dinosaurs and cavemen. I'm
sorry, atheists who want to set fire to hotel rooms for having a Bible
in the drawer, but that's what I'd choose because it's the Bible. I
might instead choose something by Dave Eggers or David Foster Wallace
just so that I know I'll be happy with my decision to throw myself into
the mouth of a giant squid. But I'm told that Joyce and God are good
island reading.<br /><br /><strong>6. If your writing career was a novel, what would the title be?</strong> <br /><br />Harry Potter and the References Nobody Gets<br /><br /><strong>7. Have you ever judged a book by its cover?</strong> <br /><br />No,
never. No one does that. That's why the word "Don't" comes before the
saying. You don't judge a book by its cover. Only assholes do that. Come
to think of it, I’m sure I have. I mean, it's why book have covers. But
who am I? A designer? What do I care what the cover of a book looks
like? I'm colorblind and I usually end up scribbling genitalia and
pentagrams all over the cover of all my books anyway. But I have. I
remember seeing the cover of A Clockwork Orange and being all, “Wow,
cool cover! This book must be awesome!” And it was.<br /><br /><strong>8. If you could co-write a book with any author, who would you choose and what genre would it be?</strong> <br /><br />With
the recent popularity of that 50 Shades nonsense, I would love to write
some erotica with Ann Coulter. Oh, we would tear up the Best Sellers
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<span class="fw_sanitized">I wanted to be a lot of things when I was a
boy: a baseball player, a professional wrestler. I went through a stage
when I thought it would be great to be a mailman. But writing was
always my number one passion. The only thing that compared was to be a
rock star. I wanted to be a famous guitar player since the night I saw
Dexys Midnight Runners perform on Solid Gold. <br /><br />But writing was my
first love. I was always writing silly things as a kid: song parodies,
poems, forged prescriptions. Every greeting card I gave my parents was
filled with my nonsensical junior high school humor and a script for
20mgs of Oxycodone. <br /><br />Then in one of my high school English
classes we read “Muck-a-Muck,” the short story by Bret Harte. Not the
wrestler Bret “the Hitman” Hart, mind you, but the American author and
poet who wrote tongue-in-cheekly about pioneering life in California. It
was hilarious, and I was the only one in the class who appreciated it.
My friends were all, “Let’s go smoke some cigs in the boys’ room and
beat up nerds,” and I was all, “This story is funny, you guys. LOL!”
Then they were all, “What’s LOL? It’s 1990, weirdo!”<br /><br />I spent the
next 22 years writing Puppet Shows. Well, not really. I’ve written other
stuff along the way – poetry, essays, screenplays, you name it, buster!
However, there is one story, “Dinner at Wither Port,” the tale of
everyone’s favorite mental asylum, that I first scribbled on cocktail
napkins and fig leaves years ago in college when I was doing acid and
drinking a lot of hairspray. When I got out of rehab at the turn of the
century, I went on a writing spree that resulted in tiny portions of
some of the other stories in this book, mostly just the beginnings of
sentences, so none of it made any sense. I later found out that I had
turned at the wrong century and a lot of my writing ended up ruining
books by Mark Twain and O Henry.<br /><br />It was only after a group of
paleontologists in Boston were able to get the same dinosaurs that wrote
the Bible to comb through all of my gibberish that this collection
really went anywhere. Those brainy lizards cleaned it up, took out all
the love letters to Debbie Gibson and the numerous references to Satan
as the “one true Dark Lord,” and Puppet Shows was born.<br /><br />I guess
the other thing you should know is where the title came from. I was at
one point writing this as a tell-all about my torrid love affair with
Prairie Dawn from Sesame Street, but her lawyers are brutal, man. I’ll
probably lose my house and children just for mentioning this here.
Anyway, that project was quickly scrapped. I kept the title and went
back to the original plan. That’s when the dinosaurs came in and saved
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“this is one of the most ridiculous books I ever picked up...and I mean that as a compliment.” - <i>Kindle Book Review</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“uncommonly twisted, irreverent and wholly amusing short stories” </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Frissore
poured his weird and boundless imagination onto the pages of this book
seemingly without holding back. Even his character names were
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Buy it. Read it. Laugh a lot, and be grateful there are writers out there who can create this type of material.” - <i>Novellarella</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“a deliciously twisted collection of ideas” </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jeanette Kempton, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Author of the <i>Karynja</i> series</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></div>
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brave foray into a well-defined territory in an attempt to bring
something different, and indeed, this book really brings something
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“This
guy is weird, and the stories he tells are every bit as bizarre. But
from page 1, they’re fun. The stories are so far off the wall they’re in
the garden somewhere. “ </span></div>
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are all randomly odd and bizarre. There is no whatsoever logic in it
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are the short stories that you would read to your teenage kid before
bed…and the type of stories that you would read to just have a bit of a
laugh once in a while. You could pick the book up, read a story, and it
will brighten your day with its indirect humor. It's brilliant for
spontaneous reading.</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX257951112" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX257951112" style="background-color: inherit;">” </span></span><span class="EOP SCX257951112" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"> </span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCX257951112" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Verdana,'Sans-Serif'; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX257951112" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX257951112" style="background-color: inherit;">“Frissore
has managed to create a very unusual collection of short stories
indeed. Full of the imaginative and bizarre and just plain ridiculous
and yet, he somehow pulls it all off and it just works. Go into this
with the expectation of having some fun and keep your mind open and you
will truly be taken on a magical ride where anything is possible and
almost everything happens.</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX257951112" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX257951112" style="background-color: inherit;">” </span></span><span class="EOP SCX257951112" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"> </span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCX257951112" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Verdana,'Sans-Serif'; font-size: 6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="TextRun SCX257951112" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX257951112" style="background-color: inherit;">“A
fun collection of crazy short stories. They are very well-written and
entertaining, if a little out-there. Read this if you have a good sense
of humor and an appreciation for the ridiculous.” </span></span><span class="EOP SCX257951112" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCX257951112" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX257951112" style="background-color: inherit;">“</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX257951112" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX257951112" style="background-color: inherit;">Only
a mind that has somehow slipped the mold of what we deem normal could
create such a deliciously twisted collection of ideas and combine them
into this treat for the mind.” – Jeanette Kempton, Author of the </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX257951112" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px;"><span class="SpellingError SCX257951112" style="background-color: inherit;">Karynja</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX257951112" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX257951112" style="background-color: inherit;"> series</span></span><span class="EOP SCX257951112" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"> </span></div>
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is not mainstream fiction. It’s not mainstream anything. This guy is
weird, and the stories he tells are every bit as bizarre. But from page
1, they’re fun. The stories are so far off the wall they’re in the
garden somewhere. </span></span><span class="EOP SCX257951112" style="font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun EmptyTextRun SCX257951112" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></span><a class="Hyperlink SCX257951112" href="http://www.writersamuseme.com/michaelfrissore.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="TextRun SCX257951112" style="color: black; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX257951112" style="background-color: inherit;">Frissore</span></span></a><span class="TextRun SCX257951112" style="color: black; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX257951112" style="background-color: inherit;"> should be praised for more than just his sense of </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX257951112" style="color: black; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px;"><span class="SpellingError SCX257951112" style="background-color: inherit;">humour</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX257951112" style="color: black; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX257951112" style="background-color: inherit;">
though. There’s an incredibly fluent turn of phrase here; you can hear
every word smoothly, without effort. The language is spare in places,
but often lively and always interesting. It’s conversational, but if
that conversation was being held by the two sharpest, wittiest people
you know (who also happen to be loony tunes). </span></span><span class="EOP SCX257951112" style="font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCX257951112" style="color: black; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX257951112" style="background-color: inherit;">I don’t know if </span><span class="SpellingError SCX257951112" style="background-color: inherit;">Frissore</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX257951112" style="background-color: inherit;"> bangs this stuff out without sweat, or if he </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX257951112" style="color: black; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px;"><span class="SpellingError SCX257951112" style="background-color: inherit;">agonises</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX257951112" style="color: black; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX257951112" style="background-color: inherit;"> over each syllable, but the effect is prose that’s as rewarding to read as it is funny</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX257951112" style="color: black; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX257951112" style="background-color: inherit;">…</span></span><span class="EOP SCX257951112" style="font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCX257951112" style="color: black; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX257951112" style="background-color: inherit;">It’s
a difficult plate to spin though, creating something both worthwhile
and absurd. And in many of these stories, Frissore nails it. One or two
heart strings are even plucked subtly, with a three word flash of
emotion dropped in amongst a chaotic tale. </span></span><span class="EOP SCX257951112" style="font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px;"> </span></div>
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let’s not take for granted the most important point - the funny. Every
story amused me, and all of them were cut off at just about the right
time. .. Frissore reaffirmed my belief that such whimsy (that’s right, I
used the word whimsy, what of it?), screams loudest and most perfectly
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<span class="TextRun EmptyTextRun SCX257951112" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></span><a class="Hyperlink SCX257951112" href="http://www.writersamuseme.com/michaelfrissore.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="TextRun SCX257951112" style="color: #0066cc; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX257951112" style="background-color: inherit;">http://www.writersamuseme.com/michaelfrissore.htm</span></span></a>Michael Frissorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17383279175709373408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375343248334284523.post-19941210214440601092011-09-17T17:21:00.000-07:002011-09-17T17:21:23.079-07:00Brief Write-Up on NewPages.comThat's right. You may not give a rampaging shite, but <a href="http://www.newpages.com/literary-magazine-reviews/2011-09-15/#Lowestoft-Chronicle-6-Summer-2011">NewPages</a> is a pretty big deal and they like my horseshit even if you don't read it. Because, you see, my timeless story, "<a href="http://www.lowestoftchronicle.com/issues/issue6/michaelfrissore.html">The Adventures of Root Beer Float Man</a>" received a thumbs up from one Henry F. Tonn of the prestigious NewPages Web site. In case the link soon shits the bed, here's what Mr. Tonn wrote:<br />
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<i>"I immensely enjoyed “The Adventures of Root Beer Float Man”
by Michael Frissore, a humorous tale about a man with super
powers such as being able to scream like a little girl, and who
is dedicated to solving crimes, if he can correctly identify
them. Frissore’s style comes through as the protagonist asks his
boss for time off to investigate a friend’s death: “‘Well, you
know, Sparky,’ he said. ‘You don't really work here anymore. I
fired you three weeks ago. You have no training in journalism
and you creep everyone in the office out.’” And so our hero
sallies off to right the world’s wrongs."</i><br />
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There you have it. <i>I'm</i> great!<i> </i>Michael Frissorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17383279175709373408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375343248334284523.post-18560185597504753112010-11-11T05:16:00.000-08:002010-11-11T05:24:43.563-08:00Michael Frissore: Pushcart Prize NomineeOne of my dazzling short stories, "Game Shows," has just been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by a wonderful fledgling literary journal called <span style="font-style:italic;">The Toucan</span>, an outfit based in Pittsburgh, PA. This is huge news as last year my story "The Smell of Eggnog in the Morning" was nominated for Dzanc Books' Best of the Web anthology. So next year I hope to be up for a Nobel or something.<br /><br />To read this Pushcarty story:<br /><br /><br />http://thetoucanonline.blogspot.com/2010/04/page-4-game-shows-part-one-michael.htmlMichael Frissorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17383279175709373408noreply@blogger.com2