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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Books / Genius The Importance of Being Genius

Posted by David Schmader on Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 5:01 PM

Forney, Skoog, Wayson

Mark your calendars: Next Friday night, the Hugo House presents The Importance of Being Genius, a showcase featuring the work and actual human presence of this year's nominees for the Stranger Genius Award in Literature. As host Paul Constant writes:

The three nominees for this year’s Genius Award in literature—Ed Skoog, Kary Wayson, and Ellen Forney—come together for a group reading and Q&A to show off their genius-level work. What kind of weird stuff will two poets and a cartoonist discuss? They have a lot in common; they’ve all made their bones in short work, they’re all beloved members of Seattle’s artistic community, and they’re all obsessed with nonprose communication methods. Plus: booze!

Get your tickets here!

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I think this Netlix review of Bellflower (2011) is genius:

Look, I love strange, crazy, interesting and different films. I'm a Lynch fan. I like Troma. I respect low budget film making. I generally love movies, and try to find something to love in even the warmest of steaming turds. However, this film started out annoying, and grew to be infuriating. It's basically a couple spoiled hipsters acting like spoiled hipsters, hooking up with a couple spoiled snotty girls who act like spoiled snotty girls. There's no character development, because there are no characters. I'm sure some will enjoy it. But for me, it was like watching a conversation between two guys wearing sandals and smoking clove cigarettes outside a coffee shop.

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