LMFAO

I am very pleased to announce a new OMG! book. Paolo Javier's LMFAO is a visual collage, comic book, poetry text, conceptual work, and more. This book is full color, hand-sewn, pink card covers, and in a strictly limited edition of 100 copies. For the low price of $10.

Fred Wah writes, "Narrativity on the edge. Even the picture/frame has an accent. Collage collapsed. The trans- in transition. Bumper-sticker po-etry: decals at the heart of thinking. “LMFAO” read as a concrete serial poem; definitely not fiction. But diction, condensare. Concentrations for the cloud of unknowing."

and Kevin Killian writes, "The best magicians narrate what they’re doing and speak so beautifully they can pull off their tricks right before your eyes, candor as gambit. Paolo Javier gives away his plans to “combine & recombine handwritten & printed jokes/ song lyrics/ news articles/ advertising copy/ with graphic snippets of appro[priated] cartoons” to “reduce comic images to visual shorthand,” and thus he gets away with murder. As a bakla fan of Paolo’s for example, I should be offended at the way he mis-spells Barbra Streisand’s sacred name, inducing visual violence, raining fire on hell’s vanquished angel, but instead I’m well, LMFAO, proving once again Houdini’s first axiom: the tarugo’s quicker than the eye."

Attention New York City chums! On Friday July 25th OMG! and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council will present a reading for OMG! press! Hurrah! The reading will feature Paolo, Stacy S, Erica Kaufman, and Dana Ward. Cheap wine. Snacks. 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. at the LMCC, 125 Maiden Lane is between Pearl and Water Streets. Take any of the following: 2/3/4/5/A/C/J/M/Z to Fulton Street/Broadway Nassau. LMFAO and all other OMG! books will be available for purchase, so you can restrain yourselves from that BUY NOW button!

And finally, please note the stellar deal to the right: for $18 you can get your paws on LMFAO, Stacy S's Autoportraits, and Erica Kaufman's Censory Impulse. For such a deal, the only conceivable response should be, well, OMG!