Finally, a kick-ass video game based on poetry rather than FIFA or Seal Team 6. Now all you gamers out there can experience what pixilated, dark haired poet Sampson Starkweather experiences: PAIN. So, no more can society argue that video game culture has usurped activities such as reading. Play the game. Taste the PAIN. Then, inflict more PAIN on your-self-abusing-selves, sitting in your dark rooms, cathode blue computer colored faces, still arguing Atari vs Intellivision, or the processing power of this-or-that latest console, and Pre-order PAIN: The Board Game by Sampson Starkweather, the fourth title from Third Man Books.
"[Starkweather’s] poetry is so real, so stunning, so emotionally accurate and strange…I find with each poem I’m laughing out loud. But also putting my hand over my heart, in a futile effort to keep the damn thing still.” —Bianca Stone, author of Someone Else’s Wedding Vows
yall gnarf some more…ha
boring…
2639. I almost had it. One more and I would have been there. My stupid teacher yelled at me and I missed it.
Just read the Starkweather poems posted over at the TMB site (I don’t check over there near often enough, y’all need to let us know when there’s a new post) and have a strong feeling I’m gonna really like Mr. Starkweather’s work. Should probably check out some of his other writings while waiting for PAIN to arrive, but I’ve developed a habit when you all introduce me to something new of first experiencing how you present it to us, and then going out to see what else that artist has done. Gotta say, too, that it feels highly appropriate that you’re releasing this in the month of October.
The addiction continues….
9334. Do I win a Triple Decker?
i’m pretty sure i just broke my space bar.
That’s fun!!!
gnarf…
Dammit, y’all suckered me into playing the video game. Lacks the funny insults of Elf Bowling and I don’t have the necessary attention span to get beyond more than three tries at level two, but am curious what happens if you make it through the mountains. Need to send a link to my nephews, see if they can find out for me.