A Lush In Rio

Was quite a toughie: Whether or not to file this under "Books" or "Bad Art," but I figure "News" has a nice, antiseptic ring to it, so fuck all, that's what this is: News.

(Definitely not just upping my blog-count... Well, maybe a little upping my blog-count, which from now on will be called "pulling a Christopher Lambert," in honor of that great French actor, and not because he ever inanely upped his blog-count, but because he was in The Highlander movies, which are the sweetest movies about inane competition I have ever seen, excepting possibly Jet Li's The One, which is meta-sweet, because Jet Li is inanely competing against... Jet Li.)

Anyway, the point of this post is: My friend Paul Vargas and I have started an online literary venture, something in between McSweeneys.net and Kaiju Big Battel, except actually more like just McSweeneys.net. Our site is called A Lush In Rio (alushinrio.com) and is replete with Treasures divers and Soul-Opiates such as those found in ye Bloggs of Hyghest Qualities throughout the Land.

So: Please visit my new literary venture, which includes word-games (by a Doctor of Mathematics!), and please submit humorous writings of all sorts (1001 words or fewer, please) to submissions@alushinrio.com. We love publishing our friends.

Oh, and if you love web design, feel free to offer a lended hand, because Paul and I are, as we say in the quasi-professional world, "quasi-professional writers," which is synonymous with "bad at technical stuff, but really enthusiastic about other people doing it for us."