Have Fun with Mike Edison! Live in Chicago! Tonight!
Mike Edison, a longtime McBeardo confederate and the wildman author of I Have Fun Everywhere I Go will be reading from his raucous memoir at 7pm tonight – June 3, 2009 – at Quimby’s Books.
Do not be in the Midwest this evening and miss it.
Mr. Edison is a God of Combustion who will change everything you ever thought you knew, be it printed page or, better still, in the hyperactive flesh. Buy his book. Heed his words. Bow before him.
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
A rollicking, high-octane, always irreverent journey through the seamy side of the publishing industry. Mike Edison’s resume spans twenty years and a slew of notorious titles, including Screw, High Times, Penthouse, and Hustler. An Ivy League dropout who’s never looked back, Edison embarked on a career that’s landed him in the producer’s chair for one of the worst B movies of all time; on tour with the likes of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, GG Allin, and the Ramones; undercover at a religious cult; on a bender with Evel Knievel; feuding with Hulk Hogan; smoking dope with Ozzy Osborne; and authoring some twenty novels you wouldn’t want your mother to catch you reading—let alone writing. I Have Fun Everywhere I Go combines the fear and loathing of Hunter Thompson’s journalistic thrill rides with the acerbic insider voice of Toby Young. It’s an eye-opening, gleeful view of life on the edge—and the outlaws and oddballs encountered there.
“If you have any interest in pot, pornography, punk rock, or professional wrestling, just buy this fucking thing.” —Nick Tosches
