| | Issue #19.42 :: 05/14/2008 - 05/20/2008 | “I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World”
| BY J. EDWARD SUMERAU
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"I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World”
By Mike Edison
AUGUSTA, GA - Readers in search of a fun ride through recent American cultural and media history will do well to consider Mike Edison’s stunning memoir, “I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World”. Throughout the pages of this wonderfully crafted work, Edison swims through controversial settings, outrageous adventures, and a multitude of laughable observations perfect for fans of absurdity.
Mike Edison is a renaissance man among drug abusers and porn peddlers. A writer, musician and editor, he lives in New York City, and is most famous for publishing the famous marijuana magazine High Times. An irreverent voice of modern thought, Edison is at his best reveling in the missteps and malicious drama that has been his own life.
Pounding with life from the opening lines, this memoir is a true treasure-trove of splendid irreverence tinted with absurdist humor. Whether Edison is ducking shotguns in search of drugs, wrestling his boss in an attempt to accelerate his career, or piecing together his own pamphlets with hand-lettered announcements and lifted pictures secured via scissor cuts, Edison is a splendid example of the ability of a person to adjust and survive in an age of mechanized conformity.
Truly a sage among independent voices, Edison provides a framework for the full-blown, high-octane experience of living. A drummer traveling the world, a hand in the creation of pornographic novels, and a writer of Penthouse letters (My sincere apologies to anyone still harboring the belief that such letters are factual tomes), Edison is on the cutting edge of controversy and intrigue throughout his life.
Whether re-living the ability to publish photos of defecating rock stars or feeling like a champion after leaving the offices of a French doctor, Edison offers readers a ride through a world and systematic destruction and fascinating fanaticism. From the pages of a Wrestling magazine to the pages of pornographic magazines to the masthead of a marijuana magazine, Edison glides along the edges of society with an intense dose of wit and a startling eye for the insane.
Available at major booksellers nationwide, Edison’s memoir is a testament to a life lived full-speed ahead on the edges of propriety. Take a trip to a land of insanity and absurdity with an irreverent master at the top of his game.
Edison, Mike. “I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World.” New York: Faber and Faber, Inc. (An Affiliate of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux). 2008. 338pp. $25.00 Cloth. ISBN: 9780865479647.
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