Horoscrapes is now available! Here is the publisher’s blurb:
Part Oulipian exercise, these meticulous scrapings reveal the future in all its sublime absurdity. The author approached the horoscope in his morning newspaper as if it were a puzzle, like the crossword or sudoku. By scraping out the middle part, and joining the beginning and end, he received a hidden message.
Reading outside the lines here one discovers an alternative fate more interesting than the fluff dispensed by run-of-the-mill soothsayers. Indeed, these predictions are pithy, profound, and astonishingly accurate.
In HOROSCRAPES, Doug Skinner offers up 366 clever twists of fate—something for every sign—guaranteed to alter forever how we view the universe.
Who knows what the future holds?
Doug Skinner knows.
Available from Black Scat Books.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Win // Nov 8, 2014 at 11:57 pm
“I used to think ‘Mercury is in retrograde’ was doctor speak for ‘your temperature has come down’ until I discovered…Horoscrapes!
2 Doug // Nov 9, 2014 at 7:00 pm
You’re hired! Mercury in retrograde is Yrucrem; the anagram, however, is “curry ’em.”
3 Patrick // Dec 17, 2014 at 1:57 pm
Y’rectum? Damn near killed ’em, from the looks of it.
By the way, is this the same Doug Skinner keeping the flame ablaze for JAK on the other page?
If it is, I got here looking for contact info. There is none here…or over there. That may be the point, however.
Anyway, I just had an idea I wanted to run by you.
No biggie.
4 Doug // Dec 18, 2014 at 8:02 am
The same. I’ll email you.
5 name Cabinet 55 // Feb 26, 2015 at 9:08 pm
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