PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE somebody go see Paul Neilan read from his book Apathy and Other Small Victories this Thursday. Apathy is the funniest, most irreverent, and yet indicative of the times novel I have read in a long time. Aside from that, Paul is a great guy, one of my favorite people in the whole world, despite the fact that we’ve only gotten together a few times for drinks (and talked about our own inadequacies, and talked about how the world has gone mad, and drunk very cheap beer until we were very silly and were praising God for good public transportation)
If you do go, please bring him a salt shaker (preferably a simple one stolen from a diner… he’ll understand), and please introduce yourself to him as a friend.