Comments for The Wrath of Kon

Comment on The Annotated Rumored to Exist, Hardcover edition by Gwil

Gwil — Fri, 10 May 2013 10:12:16 +0000

Shit, I would have bought this had I not bought and read the other version fairly recently. Oh well…

Comment on Own a piece of Konrath history by jkonrath

jkonrath — Thu, 02 May 2013 21:08:39 +0000

I can't tell if that's tile or a linoleum/vinyl with a square marking that looks like it's tile – it's too low-res of a photo.

The game was similar to Crossbows and Catapults, which I had back in 1983, but it was a ripoff or bastardization of it. Here's the original: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2129/crossbows…

Comment on Own a piece of Konrath history by LKKKo

LKKKo — Thu, 02 May 2013 20:28:05 +0000

they re did the kitchen floor. it's tile now. I'm quite certain it was linoleum. What was it we were building on that floor? I diorama of the siege of Rome? Really, we had army men, or legos, or something.

Comment on The Annotated Rumored to Exist, Hardcover edition by sterling

sterling — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:24:11 +0000

Thanks. I'm gonna get one.

Comment on Another story from another kind of book by jkonrath

jkonrath — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:16:21 +0000

Well, you actually knew TD, so, yeah.

I'm not sure which one would be worse from a nostalgia standpoint: that he passed and the record store lived on, or that the store either shuttered or became one of these ridiculous places that is now 90% IU sweatshirts and one rack of used CDs. I mean, from Tom's standpoint, one is obviously worse, but I think about all of the time I wasted in Roscoe's and Streetside (gone, gone) and Tracks (useless apparel and incense store) and it bothers me. One of the many reasons it's easier for me to write books about people flying airplanes into Wal-Marts to obtain erections rather than diving into this nostalgic stuff again.

Comment on Another story from another kind of book by A.

A. — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:09:50 +0000

I don't know what it is about that damn record store but every time it pops into my head, even for a millisecond, I start getting all weepy about something or other.

Also: "shorthand and inside jokes and trills and forms of improv" — exactly, exactly, exactly.

Comment on Another story from another kind of book by jkonrath

jkonrath — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:19:28 +0000

That happened to me too – but also, I went back to Bloomington a year later, and it seemed like everyone there was about 14 years old and I felt like I was that dude from Aqualung – "sitting on a park bench, eyeing little girls with bad intent"

Comment on The TOC to my next book by jkonrath

jkonrath — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:17:09 +0000

That's too obvious. If I wrote a book of 10,000 titles to stories that don't exist, I would title it _FuckMaster 7 And The Whores of Octopus Island: Not An Official Hunger Games or Game of Thrones Slutfest_

Comment on The TOC to my next book by Ray Miller

Ray Miller — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:12:22 +0000

You do have a title: 10,000 Titles to Stories That Don’t Exist

Comment on Another story from another kind of book by Thomas S

Thomas S — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:20:09 +0000

Very cool! I can always relate to the college vibe. It seemed like everything contorted and re-invented itself so fast when I got out of Goshen at GC to hit my first internship in Massachusetts. When I returned home 9 mos. later, 3/4 of the people were gone – like some freaking TOM BOMB went off and picked off only my friends and study partners.