Red Elvises (your favorite band)

... at Slims in San Francisco.

That's entertainment.
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Luck in publishing

The Disinformation Company approached me about publishing Scamorama, which is not how publishing normally works. Usually the author beats her wings against the window of an agent, or publisher, before collapsing on the frosty sill. Or not, depending on the merits of her work, the publisher's catalog, the agent's state of digestion, and luck.

I like to think it's a decent book (well I've been told it's a good bathroom book - which I think was a compliment) but luck was definitely involved here. Someone sent me a photo of a man walking a hyena in Nigeria. I posted it on Scamorama and Disinfo asked to use it in another book. And by the way, did I want to write a book?

I did, and it looks like this:

The photo was also used in the art for the recent Gorillaz album, Demon Days.
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