The Magical Hanukkahtime Section Variety Hour is an eight-day cruise through every section at BC Magazine except the one where the author has any knowledge whatsoever. On the sixth evening: BC Books!
What a long strange trip it's been for Samuel "Joseph" Wurzelbacher. First he lived over 30 years of being average. Then he lived a few months of being average, but with his own Wikipedia article. Then it was revealed he was a horrible, horrible human being because he didn't have a job or a plumber's license or hair on his head. This also perfectly describes several neo-Nazis, and you wouldn't trust them in your home, would you?
But maybe you'll trust Joe a little bit more, now that he's an author, because you don't need a license for that. Just upwards of 15 minutes in the spotlight and the number of an actual author. In this case Wurzelbacher had the digits of one Thomas N. Tabback, who can be most certainly described as a novelist. Good enough for me.
The Toledo Blade, which just recently laid off some of their staff members, bought the book for "$24.95 plus $18.60 for shipping," when at Amazon it's two-thirds the price, plus free shipping if you buy a bunch of reporters notebooks or Season One of Herman's Head or whatever the flip newsies like to watch during down time.
There are some fun facts in the book. For one, he wasn't really a fan of John McCain and only kinda supported him because he is certain Barack Obama will drive this country into a steamboat full of acorns or something. (Which actually describes, well, everyone who voted for him.) He is considering a Congressional campaign in 2010, which means his opponent would be a 14-term Democrat. Also, in the book he admitted to whoring himself out for coke and... wait - wrong memoir we don't really care about.
Article comments
1 - Joanne Huspek
"The real question for Wurzelbacher is how he published a book without first wasting time writing a blog for three years. No blog? What is this, 2003?"
No kidding. I need that secret.