The Thousands

Providing clean air, shelter, shade, fruit, flowers, and sometimes even cashews; trees are pretty damn stupid. Take a look at your average tree and tell me it doesn’t remind you of an anorexic in a green afro-wig. Am I right? Fuckin’ trees. What’d they know? Sweet F.A. is what. And that’s why we should resume chopping the big weird bastards down to make more books.

Kindle-Schmindle; I don’t wanna hear about it. It’s like ipods all over again, except this time it’ll be the publishing industry that bottoms out, leaving Malcolm Gladwell, Bryce Courtenay, and the Dali Lama rubbing their grubby hands round a fire-drum.

If that sounds all fine and dandy to you, then go ahead and purchase the first five issues of that excellent literary journal, Torpedo, from the Amazon Kindle Store. Torpedo is the first magazine/journal available on Kindle and iphone, and you will also be able to read it on ipad when that comes out. This is an enormous coup for editor and change-embracer, Chris Flynn, who obviously can’t hear the sound of my best-$eller dreams being dashed against the rocks of tomorrow. Nice. Thanks, Chris.