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A tour-de-force avant-pop anti-spectacle

Sewing Shut My Eyes is a tour-de-force avant-pop anti-spectacle—nine darkly satiric out-takes of America tubing. Visions of mid-air synchronicities, robotic cockroaches, cyborg poets and one monstrous HDTV, all rendered in a hypo-manic style of electrified clauses and full-throttle patter. Here's Mona Sausalito, self-proclaimed "fricking gorgeous" bad-little-girl for Escort a la Mode and, on the side, Neogoth lyricist in the band of her boyfriend Mosh ("His real name is Marvin Goldstein"). Mona wants to be a poet. "I write about human sacrifices, cannibalism, vampires, and stuff. Mosh loves my work. He says we're all going to be famous some day. Only right now we're not, which bites, cuz I've been writing for like almost ten months. These things take time, I guess."

Olsen hallucinates a turned-on, channel-surfing nation where pain has become home theater and given enough channels, watching would beat sex. A nameless agent of the ultimate phantom bureaucracy holds his Yeltsin-70 at the ready and recalls O.J. on trial, supermodels and styrofoam landscapes, America screening fast and addictive. In the title story, Kerwin Penumbro wakes on his birthday to the ultimate tv, the renowned Mitsubishi Stealth, and at a point thirty-three thousand feet above the triangulation of Iron Lightning, Faith, and Thunder Butte, SD, Itty Snibb, supremely confident dwarf and prosperous entrepreneur, prepares to meet God.

These are fictions for minds lit with cathode-ray tubes, hands pixilated with static, for bodies that have become switching stations for the Society of the Spectacle.

The only thing left to do is start sewing shut our eyes.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Acknowledments
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  1. Contents
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  1. Telegenesicide
  2. pp. 11-18
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  1. How Iny "The Human" Snibb Was More or Less Born Again
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  1. Pentapod Freak Next
  2. pp. 37-42
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  1. Digital Matrix: Barbie: Lust
  2. pp. 43-61
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  1. X-Ray Dreams, 1963
  2. pp. 62-72
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  1. Cybermorphic Beat-Up Get-Down Subterranean Homesick Reality-Sandwich Blues
  2. pp. 73-78
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  1. Sewing my Eyes Shut
  2. pp. 79-84
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  1. Kamikaze Motives of the Immaculate Deconstruction in the Data-Sucking Rust-Age of Insectile Hackers
  2. pp. 85-92
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  1. Strategies in the Overexposure of Well-Lit Space
  2. pp. 93-143
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