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Dave Eggers' The Wild Things is available for preorder, in regular hardcover and
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Phriday List Phabulousness: Alternative Rock Meets Current Events Edition. - - - - LYRICS FROM PAVEMENT'S SLANTED AND ENCHANTED THAT SOUND LIKE THEY COULD BE SLOGANS SHOUTED BY PROTESTERS DURING THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION SPEECHES. By C. Mason Wells "Two states—we want two states." "You think it's easy, but you're wrong." "Can you treat it like an oil well?" "Lies and betrayals!" "All the things we had before you sold us out and took it all." "We've got a license to live." "We'll put our labels down, favors down." "Everything's ending here." - - - - LYRICS FROM PAVEMENT'S SLANTED AND ENCHANTED THAT SOUND LIKE THEY BELONGED IN PRESIDENT BUSH'S CONVENTION ACCEPTANCE SPEECH. By C. Mason Wells "Come join us in a prayer." "What does it mean, a mistake or two, if it's the kind of mistakes no one can trace?" "I've got one holy life to give." "I am not one-half of the problem and it's not my fault." - - - - GUIDED BY VOICES SONG TITLES THAT COULD DOUBLE AS CHAPTER HEADINGS IN AL QAEDA TRAINING MANUALS. By Paul Grellong A Contest Featuring Human Beings A Good Circuitry Soldier Adverse Wind Color of My Blade Driving in the U.S. of A. Dying to Try This Evil Speakers Fly Into Ashes For Liberty Fountain of Youth Get to Know the Ropes Gonna Never Have to Die Harboring Exiles Hit I Am a Scientist If We Wait Isolation Drills It's Easy Knock 'Em Flyin' Land of Danger Let's Go! (To War) Look, It's Baseball Messenger Mix Up the Satellite My Big Day My Kind of Soldier Navigating Flood Regions None of Them Any Good North American Vampires Not Behind the Fighter Jet Now to War Of Mites and Men Our Value of Luxury Pretty Bombs Red Gas Circle Sabotage Satellite Scissors Skills Like This Soul Flyers Static Airplane Jive Striped White Jets Systems Crash Take to the Sky Teenage FBI The Enemy The Flying Party The Perfect Life The Singing Razorblade To Remake the Young Flyer Trashed Aircraft Underground Initiations Underwater Explosions United Universal Truths and Cycles We've Got Airplanes Why Did You Land? You're Not an Airplane - - - - OTHER McSWEENEY'S FEATURES: - - - - Phriday List Phabulousness: Alternative Rock Meets Current Events Edition Nightmare By Sean Carman An Open Letter to Officials of the United States Government Regarding What's New in My Reproductive Area By Emily Weinstein Saddam Hussein, Master of the Limerick By Joe O'Neill John Moe's Pop-Song Correspondences, Volume IV By John Moe

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