Another example of finding the beauty within.

Rich Shapiro tops Joey Mcintyre!

Teen Challenge Thrift Shop, Eugene.  9/8/12, 11:24am.

The First Comment Nails It

Distribution at the UO in 2010. Does anyone else hear the Smiths' song 'Pretty Girls Make Graves' playing??

Wait, Tony Bennett wrote a book?

ARC Thrift Store, Corvallis.  8/26/12, 3:01pm.

Because Crap Sticks Together

On Flickr, this image has but one comment: When I first saw the thumbnail, I thought it was a set of encyclopedias! The Wild Animus scourge...

Another Gem

There are so many mocking reviews on Amazon that only the cream rise to the top.  Here's another good 'un: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2U8HN712XQ4CK

Authority?

I'm almost loath to point out that Wild Animus has an entry in The Urban Dictionary.  That give it way more legitimacy than it deserves...

Also known as "complete brain rape".

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Wild%20Animus

Three posts in a day? Why the hell not...

You can get the first three chapters of the book here if you want to check it out for yourself. All in all, I am going to conclude by saying that I am glad that popularity can not be bought. As a writer and a musician I see what Shapero is doing as tremendously masturbatory.

Nice Find, Brian!

The “Wild Animus Girls” theatrically slink through the crowd promoting a CD featuring really odd and unlistenable music — whether sober or inebriated.

Explore the Brilliance Within

Just as The Bible Code purports to find true meaning in the collective ramblings of the Id of our earlier ancestors, this young lady has found beauty in the most unlikely of places.

Wild Animus Amidst The Hippies

So we're leaving the Fair yesterday and someone is offering free books, which always gets my attention, until I see that the title is "More Than Just a Carpenter" so we keep walking. Farther out in the lot are two guys popping open a stack of boxes and offering more free books, only these come rubberbanded with a CD, both with groovy swirly covers. Book + CD = Willy Vlautin-esque and I'm interested, ask what it's about. "Two kids growing up in Alaska," one guy says. The title is "Too Far" and I take it and walk and maybe it's the Alaska reference, or maybe it's seeing all those boxes of free books, but I tell Carley the whole "Wild Animus" story as we're walking out to the car, "Wild Animus" which I still see on the shelves of used bookstores everywhere, including Powells when we were up there a couple weeks ago. I didn't pick the book and CD up until today, read the back cover, skipped to About the Author - Rich Shapero - author of one other book: "Wild Animus."

Tom :)

A genius of a review.

Mr. Brian M.Wise... If you're ever in Eugene I'd be pleased to buy you a beer.

Whoa! Someone KEPT their hardcover copy!

Desk Drawer in Oregon. 2/24/12, 11:53am. "Like saving a dog turd for some future practical joke. My desk drawer."

This isn't the 'explosive' impact intended by the author...

It's understandable to be wary of Wild Animus, but this is perhaps a bit extreme... 

Eugene Goodwill. 2/11/12, 3:25pm.

Eugene Goodwill. 2/11/12, 3:34pm

Fern Ridge Public Library. 2/13/12, 5:02pm.