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May 19, 2010
Its last Tuesday and its a crisp calm night, as the velvet twilight glistens and gleams from sparkling silver pepper stars sprinkled across the powdery air of the black tarp hovering overhead restlessly. And M.T. is busy in his looking for his new titanium shovel so he could clear a space in his yard for a glow-n-dark sundial.

Suddenly a stealthy silhouette wavers through the shadows. Sneakingly the silhouette emerges clutching the missing titanium shovel in his nervous hands that are quivering like Michael J. Fox during a game of Jenga.

The mysterious figure strikes M.T.'s cranium, cracking completely open as if its a pinata full of dark rose colored blood.

Exactly one week later on the subsequent Tuesday-a week after the attack and M.T. lies on his death bed, pale as a winter moon. He's forcing an awkward smile before sinking into the unknown abyss of afterlife. Nostalgically he reflects on past events in life such as his freshman year in college when he tried speed dating. Not on purpose, he was just dumped a lot.

And who else other than the fetid sump-sucking, Mr.J would be the last person privy to M.T. Jester's final uttered syllables. Most of what he said to Mr.J made as much sense as a mime performing ventriloquism or a dyslexic playing boggle or buying a coffin with a lifetime warranty.

Silence consumes the entire room and shattered as M.T lightly interposes and whispers in a husky tenor with great trepidation and Mr. J leans forward with eagerness. Moving wistfully before him hesitantly unveils his only veridical secret. An ancient mystery so old it makes Alexander Graham Bell's prototypes look like the new iPhone.

M.T. fragilely murmurs.
"I have a confession. You never knew this. But, I've been secretly having an affair with your girlfriend."
Wicked words from a wicked tongue poison the ear and resonate to the deepest crevice of his stitched skull. Mr.J pauses, motionless, reticent, reserved, and statuesque. The air is rich with tension and dramatic turbulence that builds at a steadfast and unwavering pace and is released as Mr.J smirks and replies contemptuously.
"I have a confession too. I already knew about the affair. And, that's why last Tuesday night, I borrowed your shovel."


Editorial Reviews

Review

"July 17, 2010 'Amphigory Almanac' ranked # 38 on Amazon's Top 100 Bestselling Humor & Entertainment Books."
-USA TODAY NEWS


  • Mr.J's new book entitled AMPHIGORY ALMANAC is splendid, superb, and smart.-Travel Trade Tribune


  • Mr.J commands the english language with terrific the power of Zeus that resonates from the surface of the page to the deepest crevice of the reader's imagination.
    -Word-Nerd World Weekly --outskirtspress.com/meetmrj



    AMPHIGORY ALMANAC display's Mr.J's elogence and eloquence are subtle yet celebrated in this peice of paperback perfection.
    -Elite English E-zine --outskirtspress.com/meetmrj

    Amazon A-list Award Achieving Author, Mr.J is nominated by Indiepress Inc. as Best Breakthrough Author 2011."--DALLAS DAILY MORNING NEWS
    --DALLAS DAILY MORNING NEWS

    From the Author

    The steadfast and unwavering pace of self deprecating & self disparaging levity reminds the reader that the mission of the book is to be jocular and jovial at its own faults, follies, and foibles.

    Product Details

    • Paperback: 140 pages
    • Publisher: Outskirts Press; 1st edition (May 19, 2010)
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 1432760076
    • ISBN-13: 978-1432760076
    • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
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    • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
    • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,696,529 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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    Customer ReviewsMost helpful review My Opinion Of The BookDiddy certainly gives your mind and imagination a run for it's money with this piece. He shows simply that there are many facets to each of our personalities through his laugh out...Read the full reviewPublished 17 months ago by SaraMost recent review It's hilariousAll I knew, when I started reading this, was it's a comedy. What it is, is an interesting collection of shorts (short stories), many of them relating to each other, and many stand...Read the full reviewPublished 6 months ago by Poppet> _______
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    BOOK EXCERPT:
    Meet Mr. J, a mouth-breathing-barbaric-lousy-writer so self involved that he failed Astronomy 101 because he literally thought the world revolved around him. Someone once stole his identity but it was quickly returned . . . along with several others to choose from. Mr. J is writing a new book or as he called it "an Amish blog". It will probably have more unread pages than crack dealer's beeper during the 80's.




    Awards:

    Indie Print Press, Inc Book Awards (2011)
    Angie's Diary VIP Award (2011)
    Underground UK Publishing Book Awards (2011)
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    Indie Interrogation: Mr. J

    By Lil Nubi

    Monday August 22, 2011

    http://royalflushmagazine.com/2011/08/22/indie-interrogation-mr-j/

    "Today we have an interview with the man, they myth, the legend Mr. J! No, not Mr. J from Americas Next Top Model, but the other Mr. J. Yeah, that's right...the author of "Amphigory Almanac: Hebetudinous Humour, Pedantic Prose, & Linguistic Levit: Meet Mr. J". I simply call it Meet Mr. J, its easier to remember and a hell of a lot easier to say. Let the fun begin, shall we?


    Who is Mr. J? I mean, does the J stand for something or do you prefer to remain anonymous? I understand if you don't want your celebrity status to interrupt your daily going-ons.

    -Mr.J is either the fake author of a real book or the real author of a fake book.

    -Broken down it's: Three syllable sounds, two lowercase letters, and one witty writer.

    -It's an acronym of "Mostly Ridiculous Jokes".

    -I don't need a pseudonym to keep me from being a famous face in the writer world, my lack of talent as an author has that covered. I'm so unrecognizable that even my driver's license photo is just a picture of a superimposed question mark stamped over a faceless silhouette.



    Upon reading your book, the only conclusions I can draw are that you are either schizophrenic, or have an identity complex. Which of these terms can you relate to more?

    -I don't have schizophrenia, one of my alter personalities does.

    -I have multiple personalities, unfortunately, they're all boring, dull, or both so it's hard to chose which to be which has lead to my identity complex. I'm not sure which real me to pretend to be or which fake me I really am.

    -It all started when my identity was stolen then the thief realized who I was and returned it immediately along with several others to chose from. Since then, to me, books on 'self help' seem identical to books on 'helping others'.



    The book took me twice as long to read than it normally would of, I had to look every third word up in a dictionary. Do you consider yourself to be a wordsmith, and do you talk like this in normal conversation?

    -The word choice can be confusing like a colour blind kid trying to solve the Rubik's Cube, like Stevie Wonder trying to parallel park, or like an Amish elder trying to get a job at Radio Shack.

    -Unfortunately I do talk like this: And people just stare at me like I'm a lava lamp, like I owe them money, or like I'm a French Menu.

    -I find too many polysyllabic words in a row is boring and causes people to zone out, even my tape recorder gets to a point where it just pretends to listen. Every time: I press record and it yawns. I press rewind and it tries to remember what the last big word I said was. And then finally when I press play, it pretends to run out of batteries.



    Would you consider yourself to be an intelligent man? Do you feel you're smarter than the general public and this is why you have to use such a profound vocabulary?

    -Joking aside (which is to the left side of my superior intelligence and to the right side of the general public shame of their own stupidity/envy of someone else's intelligence and by 'someone else' I mean 'me', for all you dumb dumbs out there...but joking aside) I don't think laughter and learning should be segregated like church and state. And amalgamating vaudeville and vernacular acts as the midwife that births brilliantly infested excerpts of ebullient, erudite, & esoteric entertainment.Am I taller all of a sudden? Nope it's this soap box underneath my feet, sorry to pompously pretentiously and pedantic parade precipitous pontifications in homage of Hamlet's hebetudinously humorous Pollonius that took longer to get to the point than the earlobes of Spock.

    -So yeah, I used to be a narcissistic, megalomaniac, snobbish word-nerd that has been arrogantly self absorbed since I was born, even before that. For example: My sonogram looked like twins but was an illusion because it was a picture of me looking at the genius trapped in my handheld window which the dumber general public still argue was my own reflection in my handheld mirror, either way I'm a winner, an only child and a winner or a twin separated at birth from my identical brother who I assume looks like a winner.

    -And according to the dumber general public or the public that's dumber in general, I'm still self involved these days. Example: Recently I failed Astronomy 101 even though I'm smarter than the general public simply due to the small fact that I thought the world literally revolved around me and my brilliance.



    Upon completion of your book, would I be right to assume you got beat up a lot in school? Don't be bashful, I'll keep this between us...

    -Well, I had home school...So yes. But since I'm an alumnus of Mr.J Academy, I won't see any of my classmates till my 10 year reunion...aka: Next decade when I look into the mirror and remember how snow days were never canceled and for some reason still held a brief roll call of attendance for the entire student body that consisted of one student, one body, and less than one which if my math is right would be roughly zero or so, when it comes to counting the entire student body's accumulated total of absences: Since staying home sick meant going to school sick.



    There are at least 1.2 million different characters in your stories, are they based on real people or do you make most of them up? Do you take real life experiences and turn them into short stories?

    - I can't say really. I'm not sure if it's life imitating art imitating or if it's art imitating life, but I can say that regardless, either way, I'm sure they're both imitating an sh*tty book...and an imitation of an imitation is an original, sh*tty, but original.



    Do you write short stories because you have ADD and can't focus on one thing for too long? Don't feel bad, I enjoyed reading all of the stories, and feel if it was just one story I would of been bored out of my mind anyways.

    -Yes, I have A.D...Hey what's that?

    -My book is so ADD that the book mark is a set of shiny keys.

    -And yeah if it was one long story it would be so exuberantly excruciating for the reader that it should come with a tub & toaster, chair & rope, or razor & note.



    I found your book to become somewhat addicting, as much as I wanted to putit down...and trust me I really wanted to put it down I just couldn't do it. I wanted to get to the next story, and the next story, and so on. Did you expect this type of reaction or am I the only one to have this reaction?

    -You're the only one who's read it so I'm not sure. I still haven't read it. It was hard enough to write a novel, to read one too would be too much.

    -I assume readers would want to get to the next story in hopes of it being better than the one they're currently reading, which of course it isn't. I'm thinking to changing the title to "Screw me out of 12 bucks".

    -People often think I was on drugs writing it, so it makes sense that it's addicting. I've heard (cuz like I said, still haven't read it myself, but I've heard from others who have pretended to read it) that it's so addicting that rehab clinics have now replaced methadone with abridged audio versions of my book narrated by Dr.Drew Pinksy.



    It seems like your book tour will never end, when it finally does come to a conclusion, what is next on your horizon?

    -Write an apology letter to everyone who read my book. I'll be saying the phrase, "I'm sorry" more than Alec Trebek during a game of Celeb Jeopardy featuring Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, and Glenn Beck. So lemme start that long list now: "Sorry" to EACH, EVERY & ALL...two of you. I assume I have at least two readers all together, yeah probably two (that is-if I round up by three).



    Before this is immortalized on RoyalFlushMagazine.Com, you have anything to say? You better speak now or forever hold your peace!

    -Yes, subsequently in closing I leave you with 3 things:

    1...Buy my book, "Meet Mr.J" written by Mr.J because all precedes go to charity.

    2...Since you bought my book, I should be honest and tell ya that yes precedes went to charity but also forgot to mention that I just changed my name from Mr.J to "Charity" and I think it's ironic that no one gave me my name "Charity".

    3...Finally, now that you've bought my book for a "Charity" that just changed it's name back to "Mr.J", I'd like to be humble, modest, and meek when I say: You're welcome!



    You can pick up Mr. J's book "Meet Mr. J" at Amazon.Com and you really should. Do you want this guy driving your cab, flipping your burgers, or even mowing your lawn? I didn't think so. Go buy the book, alright?"


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    MR.J'S BOOK REVIEWS

    "Amphigory Almanac" ranked #38 on AMAZON'S TOP SELLER HUMOR BOOKS LIST July 17,2010 & Mr.J (brandon diddy jones) is nominated as BEST BREAKTRHOUGH AUTHOR 2011 by INDIEPRINT PRESS, INC For more information or to contact the author
    -topics.dallasnews.com/article/0fJz5Km9DIdOk?q=Barnes+%26+Noble%2C+Inc.

    Amazon A-list Award Achieving Author, Mr.J is nominated by Indiepress Inc. as BEST BREAKTRHOUGH AUTHOR 2011.

    -Muse Monthly Magazine

    Mr.J's new book entitled AMPHIGORY ALMANAC is splendid, superb, and smart.

    -Travel Trade Tribune

    Mr.J commands the english language with terrific the power of Zeus that resonates from the surface of the page to the deepest crevice of the reader's imagination.

    -Word-Nerd World Weekly

    AMPHIGORY ALMANAC display's Mr.J's elogence and eloquence are subtle yet celebrated in this peice of paperback perfection.

    -Elite English E-zine

    Imagine if Mark Twain and Mitch Hedberg had a love-child of literature it would be named Amphigory Almanac.

    -Quiet Quip Quarterly

    AMPHIGORY ALMANAC's relentlessly razor sharp and remarkably rapid fire humor create the sparks that could set the entire sky on fire with wickedly wonderful wordplay.

    -Geek Speak Gazzette

    Make sure you have a dental plan before cracking open AMPHIGORY ALMANAC'S covers because it will be jaw dropping.

    -Papercut Press Publishing

    In the 19th century of fiction there was Lewis Carol, in the 20th century of fiction there was hemmingway, and now as readers embark the 21st century of fiction we fasten our eyes in awe to the newly named sultan of sonnets, the prince of prose, the wizard of wordsmiths: Mr. J.

    -Novelist Newbie Network

    What Edison was to electricity, what Marconi was to sound, and what terrible sitcoms was to Sherwood Shwartz is equivalent to what Mr.J is to comedic commantary.

    -Bookworm Brodcasting Bros.

    If boredom was a disease Mr.J's homerun hitting humor book AMPHIGORY ALMANAC would be the cure like insulin of intrigue to the diabetes of dullness.

    -Rainy Reality Review

    PRESS RELEASE

    Outskirts Press, Inc. has published it's highly anticipated release of humor, AMPHIGORY ALMANAC: Hebetudinous Humour, Pedantic Prose, & Linguistic Levity: Meet Mr. J by Brandon Craig Jones.

    The author's most recent book to date is a 5.5 x 8.5 paperback in the literary collections and humor category and is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The webpage at www.outskirtspress.com/meetmrj was launched simultaneously with the book's publication.

    Meet Mr. J encompasses a myriad of assorted amphigories ranging from plays on Ben Franklin, lists of one-liners, short stories, teleplays on 'bromance,' pontificated, postulated, and populated prose preponderantly by parading precipitous, pretentious, pompous, polysyllabic pedantry.

    Finally a voice for an unspoken generation speaks with acerbic wit and ear tickling vernacular that rings true. Parenthetically, 236 typos (i.e. errors of grammar, syntax, semantics, linguistics, etc) have been intentionally left, not to exasperate a maladroit writing skill, but to accent how frivolous and moot rules can be in creative writing. It's a "Where's Waldo" of Errors making it interactive for the grammar gurus' scrutiny.

    Sometimes the stream of consciousness may seem scatterbrained and unfocused, but this was not done adventitiously. Each word was diligently and rigorously labored over. The steadfast and unwavering pace of self deprecating and self disparaging levity reminds the reader that the mission of the book is to be jocular and jovial at its own faults, follies, and foibles.

    Debuting author, Brandon C. Jones, hits the scene with his complete collection of work. Each chapter is autonomous and non-interdependent on the others. It's the kind of treatise that can be read in several different settings without losing momentum. Tone, word choice and style fluctuate, but motifs of a throwback to archetypal Woody Allen's erudite absurdity act as the midwife to the birth of a refreshing style of American literature.

    139 pages in length, Amphigory Almanac: Hebetudinous Humour, Pedantic Prose, & Linguistic Levity: Meet Mr. J is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the literary collections and essays category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, Amphigory Almanac: Hebetudinous Humour, Pedantic Prose, & Linguistic Levity meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets.

    Additionally, Amphigory Almanac: Hebetudinous Humour, Pedantic Prose, & Linguistic Levity can be ordered by retailers or wholesalers for the maximum trade discount price set by the author in quantities of ten or more from the Outskirts Press Direct bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore.

    ISBN: 1432760076

    For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/meetmrj.

    TRIVIA ABOUT MR.J:

    Brandon Jones majored in English and Communications at Old Dominion University. He's performed standup comedy at HA! Comedy Club in NYC. He's written for radio, TV, and the stage. Mr. Jones has also been published in copious periodicals including News Blaze, TCC Times, VA Pilot, Mace and Crown, Daily Comedy, and Punch Line Magazine.

    FAV QOUTE FROM BOOK:

    Favorite Quotations EXCERPT FROM PAGES OF THE NEW BOOK: Last Tuesday Mr.J was struck on the skull with his own shovel. Exactly one week later on his deathbed he confesses to his best friend, "I've been lying, cheating, and stealing behind your back." His best friend replies, "I know, that's why last week I borrowed your shovel."

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    PUBLISHED INTERVIEW IN MACE&CROWN NEWSPAPER W/MR.J:

    It is not often that Old Dominion students find
    ...themselves swathed in literary fame. Old Dominion
    alumni find their names listed in booksellers,
    but it is a huge feat when a current student
    achieves the status of having his/her book sold
    either online or in bookstores (self-publishing
    on blogs and writing sites do not count). Meet
    Brandon C. Jones. He wrote "Amphigory Almanac:
    Hebetudinous Humour, Pedantic Prose,& Linguistic Levity: Meet Mr. J" (might need adictionary for the title alone), is a student, andquite full of wit and comedic charm.Jones got his start being a stand-up comedian
    at age 17 at Ha! Comedy Club NYC.

    "Incidentally,I started by writing jokes and they were
    hebetudinous humor drenched in maladroit mediocrity.
    Subsequently, I became a preponderantly
    prolific penman. Parenthetically, some jokes
    from the stage made it to the page." Such humor
    exists in jokes like: "I graduated class president,
    prom king, valedictorian . . . Man, I miss home
    school. Sure every time I look in the mirror it's
    a class reunion, snow days are never canceled,
    but when your body is the student body there's
    no need for roll call at Brandon Jones Academy."
    For a good synopsis of the book, the best bet is
    to read it. Jones said about his book, "My book is
    confusing at best. Understanding some chapters
    is like trying to solve the Rubik's Cube . . . color
    blind . . . Essentially it's either a real book by
    a fake author or a fake book by a real author."

    Whichever one it is, it is definitely worth checking
    out, despite Jones' claim that readers want
    "an immediate refund and apology" after reading
    his book.

    It was not an easy process, writing a book.
    Jones juggled school and writing, and putting
    both factors together did not equate perfect results.
    There were times that he "almost gave
    up and folded under pressure like origami," but
    many great authors take detours before arriving
    at the end of their journey. For his first book,
    Jones "trott[ed] the uncharted blue marble spinning
    in the abyss of star sprinkled doubt orbiting
    the galaxy of inevitable failure, frustration,
    and disappointment. I had no Rosetta stone, no
    compass, no archetypal template or formula to
    guide me. I was lost but kept moving forward
    at a steadfast and unwavering pace. I was like
    Lewis or Clark exploring the ragged edges of the
    universe."

    However, Jones did get come inspiration from
    his ODU professors, one of them being Dr. Joy, a
    Communications professor. "After acing the final
    exam in her class, I knew I could use sophistry
    to manipulate some automaton to publish my
    book even though reading it will you put you to
    sleep faster than a narcoleptic counting sheep on
    20 mg of Ambien." He made an articulate literary
    shout out to the great American novelist,
    F. Scott Fitzgerald. "I pay a copious homage to
    F. Scott Fitzgerald's brilliantly infested passages
    gleaming like the crimson bloom of the rose colored
    sun radiating with a subtle elegance yet a
    celebrated eloquence." Also to Woody Allen. "I
    also like amalgamating erudition and absurdity
    like a nerdy Samuel Becket aka Woody Allen
    pre-Annie Hall."

    Jones did offer some good advice for aspiring
    authors. "Think outside of the box and the books.
    Be the first to write a "Where's Waldo?" book
    with flat brail that can only be read while using
    oven mittens. Or a book called "Ventriloquism
    for Dummies", I can't believe no one's done that
    double entendre yet." He also remarks on publishing
    in the era of e-books and instantaneous
    reading. "Oh and don't publish on paper. It's an
    iPod era and hardcovers are pre-Marconi phonographs.

    Printed paper publishing is so outdated it
    makes Alexander Graham Bell's first prototype
    look like the unreleased iPhone."
    Jones is already starting on a new book.
    "I'm making a yearbook because I never had one
    in home school. I'm still not sure if I want the
    last chapter to say, "Have a great summer, KIT",
    it's just so predictable. Maybe I'll think of a twist
    ending while picking up some Windex for my
    class reunion."

    Asked about what he sees himself doing in ten
    years, Jones said, "Writing . . . on a cardboard
    sign, "Will check grammar for food." Or I'll be
    consumed with intrinsic elation while working on
    my 3rd novel." Let's hope it's the former. Who
    knows, he may write the next bestseller including
    pop-ups, braille, and those little soundbite chips
    found inside greeting cards. In the meantime,
    pick up "Amphigory Almanac: Hebetudinous
    Humour, Pedantic Prose, & Linguistic Levity:
    Meet Mr. J". It's available online at Amazon,Barnes & Noble, and the Dominion Bookstore.

    INDIE INTERROGATION: MR. J By Lil Nubi Monday August 22, 2011
    .by Comedywriter Mrj on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 at 18:05.Today we have an interview with the man, they myth, the legend Mr. J! No, not Mr. J from Americas Next Top Model, but the other Mr. J. Yeah, that's right...the author of "Amphigory Almanac: Hebetudinous Humour, Pedantic Prose, & Linguistic Levit: Meet Mr. J". I simply call it Meet Mr. J, its easier to remember and a hell of a lot easier to say. Let the fun begin, shall we?


    Who is Mr. J? I mean, does the J stand for something or do you prefer to remain anonymous? I understand if you don't want your celebrity status to interrupt your daily going-ons.

    -Mr.J is either the fake author of a real book or the real author of a fake book.

    -Broken down it's: Three syllable sounds, two lowercase letters, and one witty writer.

    -It's an acronym of "Mostly Ridiculous Jokes".

    -I don't need a pseudonym to keep me from being a famous face in the writer world, my lack of talent as an author has that covered. I'm so unrecognizable that even my driver's license photo is just a picture of a superimposed question mark stamped over a faceless silhouette.


    Upon reading your book, the only conclusions I can draw are that you are either schizophrenic, or have an identity complex. Which of these terms can you relate to more?

    -I don't have schizophrenia, one of my alter personalities does.

    -I have multiple personalities, unfortunately, they're all boring, dull, or both so it's hard to chose which to be which has lead to my identity complex. I'm not sure which real me to pretend to be or which fake me I really am.

    -It all started when my identity was stolen then the thief realized who I was and returned it immediately along with several others to chose from. Since then, to me, books on 'self help' seem identical to books on 'helping others'.


    The book took me twice as long to read than it normally would of, I had to look every third word up in a dictionary. Do you consider yourself to be a wordsmith, and do you talk like this in normal conversation?

    -The word choice can be confusing like a colour blind kid trying to solve the Rubik's Cube, like Stevie Wonder trying to parallel park, or like an Amish elder trying to get a job at Radio Shack.

    -Unfortunately I do talk like this: And people just stare at me like I'm a lava lamp, like I owe them money, or like I'm a French Menu.

    -I find too many polysyllabic words in a row is boring and causes people to zone out, even my tape recorder gets to a point where it just pretends to listen. Every time: I press record and it yawns. I press rewind and it tries to remember what the last big word I said was. And then finally when I press play, it pretends to run out of batteries.


    Would you consider yourself to be an intelligent man? Do you feel you're smarter than the general public and this is why you have to use such a profound vocabulary?

    -Joking aside (which is to the left side of my superior intelligence and to the right side of the general public shame of their own stupidity/envy of someone else's intelligence and by 'someone else' I mean 'me', for all you dumb dumbs out there...but joking aside) I don't think laughter and learning should be segregated like church and state. And amalgamating vaudeville and vernacular acts as the midwife that births brilliantly infested excerpts of ebullient, erudite, & esoteric entertainment.Am I taller all of a sudden? Nope it's this soap box underneath my feet, sorry to pompously pretentiously and pedantic parade precipitous pontifications in homage of Hamlet's hebetudinously humorous Pollonius that took longer to get to the point than the earlobes of Spock.

    -So yeah, I used to be a narcissistic, megalomaniac, snobbish word-nerd that has been arrogantly self absorbed since I was born, even before that. For example: My sonogram looked like twins but was an illusion because it was a picture of me looking at the genius trapped in my handheld window which the dumber general public still argue was my own reflection in my handheld mirror, either way I'm a winner, an only child and a winner or a twin separated at birth from my identical brother who I assume looks like a winner.

    -And according to the dumber general public or the public that's dumber in general, I'm still self involved these days. Example: Recently I failed Astronomy 101 even though I'm smarter than the general public simply due to the small fact that I thought the world literally revolved around me and my brilliance.


    Upon completion of your book, would I be right to assume you got beat up a lot in school? Don't be bashful, I'll keep this between us...

    -Well, I had home school...So yes. But since I'm an alumnus of Mr.J Academy, I won't see any of my classmates till my 10 year reunion...aka: Next decade when I look into the mirror and remember how snow days were never canceled and for some reason still held a brief roll call of attendance for the entire student body that consisted of one student, one body, and less than one which if my math is right would be roughly zero or so, when it comes to counting the entire student body's accumulated total of absences: Since staying home sick meant going to school sick.


    There are at least 1.2 million different characters in your stories, are they based on real people or do you make most of them up? Do you take real life experiences and turn them into short stories?

    - I can't say really. I'm not sure if it's life imitating art imitating or if it's art imitating life, but I can say that regardless, either way, I'm sure they're both imitating an sh*tty book...and an imitation of an imitation is an original, sh*tty, but original.


    Do you write short stories because you have ADD and can't focus on one thing for too long? Don't feel bad, I enjoyed reading all of the stories, and feel if it was just one story I would of been bored out of my mind anyways.

    -Yes, I have A.D...Hey what's that?

    -My book is so ADD that the book mark is a set of shiny keys.

    -And yeah if it was one long story it would be so exuberantly excruciating for the reader that it should come with a tub & toaster, chair & rope, or razor & note.


    I found your book to become somewhat addicting, as much as I wanted to putit down...and trust me I really wanted to put it down I just couldn't do it. I wanted to get to the next story, and the next story, and so on. Did you expect this type of reaction or am I the only one to have this reaction?

    -You're the only one who's read it so I'm not sure. I still haven't read it. It was hard enough to write a novel, to read one too would be too much.

    -I assume readers would want to get to the next story in hopes of it being better than the one they're currently reading, which of course it isn't. I'm thinking to changing the title to "Screw me out of 12 bucks".

    -People often think I was on drugs writing it, so it makes sense that it's addicting. I've heard (cuz like I said, still haven't read it myself, but I've heard from others who have pretended to read it) that it's so addicting that rehab clinics have now replaced methadone with abridged audio versions of my book narrated by Dr.Drew Pinksy.


    It seems like your book tour will never end, when it finally does come to a conclusion, what is next on your horizon?

    -Write an apology letter to everyone who read my book. I'll be saying the phrase, "I'm sorry" more than Alec Trebek during a game of Celeb Jeopardy featuring Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, and Glenn Beck. So lemme start that long list now: "Sorry" to EACH, EVERY & ALL...two of you. I assume I have at least two readers all together, yeah probably two (that is-if I round up by three).


    Before this is immortalized on RoyalFlushMagazine.Com, you have anything to say? You better speak now or forever hold your peace!

    -Yes, subsequently in closing I leave you with 3 things:

    1...Buy my book, "Meet Mr.J" written by Mr.J because all precedes go to charity.

    2...Since you bought my book, I should be honest and tell ya that yes precedes went to charity but also forgot to mention that I just changed my name from Mr.J to "Charity" and I think it's ironic that no one gave me my name "Charity".

    3...Finally, now that you've bought my book for a "Charity" that just changed it's name back to "Mr.J", I'd like to be humble, modest, and meek when I say: You're welcome!

    You can pick up Mr. J's book "Meet Mr. J" at Amazon.Com and you really should. Do you want this guy driving your cab, flipping your burgers, or even mowing your lawn? I didn't think so. Go buy the book, alright?

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    5.0 out of 5 stars My Opinion Of The Book, July 10, 2010
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    This review is from: Amphigory Almanac: Hebetudinous Humour, Pedantic Prose, & Linguistic Levity: Meet Mr. J (Paperback)
    Diddy certainly gives your mind and imagination a run for it's money with this piece. He shows simply that there are many facets to each of our personalities through his laugh out loud jokes, mindfully crafted scripts and stories and enticing poetry. If you enjoy a sarcastic, dry, sometimes offensive sense of humor as much as I do, you will love this book. It is an inside look in to the creative, ever-spinning mind of a talented man in his own right.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars AMPHIGORY ALMANAC : Meet Mr.J Book Review, June 5, 2010
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    I LOVE THIS BOOK!

    BELOW ARE SOME REVIEWS I'VE FOUND ONLINE THAT ARE BETTER THAN WHAT I COULD SAY...

    July 17, 2010 Amphigory Almanac: Hebetudinous Humour, Pedantic Prose, & Linguistic Levity: Meet Mr. J ranked number 38 on AMAZON'S BESTSELLER HUMOR LIST.

    -Amazon.com's Author Achievement

    Amazon A-list Award Achieving Author, Mr.J is nominated by Indiepress Inc. as BEST BREAKTRHOUGH AUTHOR 2011.

    -Muse Monthly Magazine

    Mr.J's new book entitled AMPHIGORY ALMANAC is splendid, superb, and smart.

    -Travel Trade Tribune

    Mr.J commands the english language with terrific the power of Zeus that resonates from the surface of the page to the deepest crevice of the reader's imagination.

    -Word-Nerd World Weekly

    AMPHIGORY ALMANAC display's Mr.J's elogence and eloquence are subtle yet celebrated in this peice of paperback perfection.

    -Elite English E-zine

    Imagine if Mark Twain and Mitch Hedberg had a love-child of literature it would be named Amphigory Almanac.

    -Quiet Quip Quarterly

    AMPHIGORY ALMANAC's relentlessly razor sharp and remarkably rapid fire humor create the sparks that could set the entire sky on fire with wickedly wonderful wordplay.

    -Geek Speak Gazzette

    Make sure you have a dental plan before cracking open AMPHIGORY ALMANAC'S covers because it will be jaw dropping.

    -Papercut Press Publishing

    In the 19th century of fiction there was Lewis Carol, in the 20th century of fiction there was hemmingway, and now as readers embark the 21st century of fiction we fasten our eyes in awe to the newly named sultan of sonnets, the prince of prose, the wizard of wordsmiths: Mr. J.

    -Novelist Newbie Network

    What Edison was to electricity, what Marconi was to sound, and what terrible sitcoms was to Sherwood Shwartz is equivalent to what Mr.J is to comedic commantary.

    -Bookworm Brodcasting Bros.

    If boredom was a disease Mr.J's homerun hitting humor book AMPHIGORY ALMANAC would be the cure like insulin of intrigue to the diabetes of dullness.

    -Rainy Reality Review

    PRESS RELEASE

    Outskirts Press, Inc. has published it's highly anticipated release of humor, AMPHIGORY ALMANAC: Hebetudinous Humour, Pedantic Prose, & Linguistic Levity: Meet Mr. J by Brandon Craig Jones.

    The author's most recent book to date is a 5.5 x 8.5 paperback in the literary collections and humor category and is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The webpage at [...] was launched simultaneously with the book's publication.

    Meet Mr. J encompasses a myriad of assorted amphigories ranging from plays on Ben Franklin, lists of one-liners, short stories, teleplays on 'bromance,' pontificated, postulated, and populated prose preponderantly by parading precipitous, pretentious, pompous, polysyllabic pedantry.

    Finally a voice for an unspoken generation speaks with acerbic wit and ear tickling vernacular that rings true. Parenthetically, 236 typos (i.e. errors of grammar, syntax, semantics, linguistics, etc) have been intentionally left, not to exasperate a maladroit writing skill, but to accent how frivolous and moot rules can be in creative writing. It's a "Where's Waldo" of Errors making it interactive for the grammar gurus' scrutiny.

    Sometimes the stream of consciousness may seem scatterbrained and unfocused, but this was not done adventitiously. Each word was diligently and rigorously labored over. The steadfast and unwavering pace of self deprecating and self disparaging levity reminds the reader that the mission of the book is to be jocular and jovial at its own faults, follies, and foibles.

    Debuting author, Brandon C. Jones, hits the scene with his complete collection of work. Each chapter is autonomous and non-interdependent on the others. It's the kind of treatise that can be read in several different settings without losing momentum. Tone, word choice and style fluctuate, but motifs of a throwback to archetypal Woody Allen's erudite absurdity act as the midwife to the birth of a refreshing style of American literature.

    139 pages in length, Amphigory Almanac: Hebetudinous Humour, Pedantic Prose, & Linguistic Levity: Meet Mr. J is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the literary collections and essays category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, Amphigory Almanac: Hebetudinous Humour, Pedantic Prose, & Linguistic Levity meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets.

    Additionally, Amphigory Almanac: Hebetudinous Humour, Pedantic Prose, & Linguistic Levity can be ordered by retailers or wholesalers for the maximum trade discount price set by the author in quantities of ten or more from the Outskirts Press Direct bookstore at [...]

    ISBN: 1432760076

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    About the author:

    Brandon Jones majored in English and Communications at Old Dominion University. He's performed standup comedy at HA! Comedy Club in NYC. He's written for radio, TV, and the stage. Mr. Jones has also been published in copious periodicals including News Blaze, TCC Times, VA Pilot, Mace and Crown, Daily Comedy, and Punch Line Magazine.

    Favorite Quotations EXCERPT FROM PAGES OF THE NEW BOOK: Last Tuesday Mr.J was struck on the skull with his own shovel. Exactly one week later on his deathbed he confesses to his best friend, "I've been lying, cheating, and stealing behind your back." His best friend replies, "I know, that's why last week I borrowed your shovel."
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    4.0 out of 5 stars It's hilarious, May 23, 2011
    This review is from: Amphigory Almanac: Hebetudinous Humour, Pedantic Prose, & Linguistic Levity: Meet Mr. J (Paperback)
    All I knew, when I started reading this, was it's a comedy. What it is, is an interesting collection of shorts (short stories), many of them relating to each other, and many stand alone.

    I think the fact that it is hard to define is deliberate. The author has stories in here which show his aptitude with vocabulary (which in itself is rare to find in a modern book), but further along he reverts to text speech (especially in a list of funny one liners). For this reason, I feel this book embraces all types of readers.

    But if you love dry wit, and tend to split words (rather than hairs) you will find this collection delightful. Okay, to put it plainly - I was laughing like a maniac for a lot of it. I would call this *intelligent humour*.

    A sneak peek at the inside: "She takes my breath away. And when I say she takes my breath away it's because she's inflatable. It's not going to work out with my asthma. She's such an airhead but still a doll. She almost killed herself getting her belly button pierced. It's going to cost a fortune to fix with inflation."

    See? waaaaaahahahaaaaa.

    This isn't a deep read, you won't sit on the edge of your seat reading it, but if you love to laugh and need a pick me up, this book is highly recommended.
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