My friend Jonathan Ames stops by to chat about the teachings of the Buddha, healing back pain with your mind and his early fascinations with hobos and the hobo life. An amazing creative writer and insightful mind, Mr. Ames can also talk backwards and let out one hell of a “Hairy Call”.
This was a truly amazing discussion with an absolutely fantastic human being and I can’t wait to have him come back!
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GRAB HIS NEW BOOK: THE WHEEL OF DOLL
AN INCREDIBLE ACTION-PACKED PAGE TURNER THAT WILL LEAVE YOU WANTING MORE!
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60021189-the-wheel-of-doll
The eponymous and hapless detective Happy Doll returns with a new philosophy and a new case in this second installment of a series “that’s a tightly coiled double helix of offbeat humor and unflinching violence” (NYTBR)
Although badly scarred and down to his last kidney after the previous caper, Happy Doll is back in business. When a beguiling young woman turns up at his door, it’s Doll’s past that comes knocking. Mary DeAngelo is searching for her estranged mother, Ines Candle—a singular and troubled woman Doll once loved. The last he’d seen her she’d been near-death: arms slit like envelopes. Although she survived the episode, she vanished shortly thereafter. Now, years later, Mary claims Ines is alive and has recently made contact—messaging her on Facebook and calling her from a burner phone—only to disappear once again. Although his psychoanalyst would discourage it, Doll takes the case, desperate to see Ines again. But as the investigation deepens, there are questions he can’t shake. What’s led the flighty Ines to reappear? Is Mary only relaying half the truth? And who is Mary’s strange and mysterious husband?
In this wholly original follow-up to A MAN NAMED DOLL, Happy travels through L.A., Washington, Oregon and back again—a journey that gets wilder and woolier with each turn. An irreverent and inventive mystery, THE WHEEL OF DOLL is not to be missed.
Jonathan Ames is the author of the books The Double Life is Twice As Good, I Pass Like Night, The Extra Man, What’s Not to Love?, My Less Than Secret Life, Wake Up, Sir!, I Love You More Than You Know, and The Alcoholic (a graphic novel illustrated by Dean Haspiel). He is the editor of Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs.
He is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a former columnist for New York Press.
Wake Up, Sir! and The Extra Man are in development as films, with Mr. Ames having written the screenplays. He adapted What’s Not to Love? as a TV special for the Showtime network and he played himself. At the time, he said, “It’s the role I’ve been waiting for!” The special aired in December 2007 and January 2008.
Mr. Ames has also written a TV pilot for the HBO network, Bored to Death, and this will be filmed in the fall of 2008. The pilot will star Jason Schwartzman as “Jonathan Ames”. Bored to Death was originally a short story by Mr. Ames which was published in McSweeney’s #24 (fall 2007).
In addition to writing, Jonathan Ames performs frequently as a storyteller (often with The Moth) and has been a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman.
He has had two amateur boxing matches, fighting as “The Herring Wonder,” and he had a one-man show off-off-Broadway, entitled Oedipussy. Mr. Ames had the lead role in the IFC film The Girl Under the Waves and was a porn-extra in the porn film C-Men.
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Traveling and surviving like barnacles on the hull of society is undoubtedly a hard and depressing journey but adversity always yields the most amazing and hilarious stories.
Sex Workers, Hobos, Circus Freaks, Hippies, Inventors, Artists, Musicians, Crazy People and anyone interesting occasionally stop by and have long form conversations with me. Most telling stories from their adventures and travels but also topics ranging from past to future.
Everyone I know has a story to tell and I am always to excited to talk with someone new. Random stories of debauchery and survival in a society that doesn’t value compassion and creativity. The flowers that grow between the cracks in the street have a story to tell