Mark Budman

Mark Budman
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Mark Budman's works have appeared or are about to appear in such magazines as Mississippi Review, Virginia Quarterly, The London Magazine, Midamerican Review, McSweeney's, Turnrow, Connecticut Review, the W.W. Norton anthology Flash Fiction Forward, and elsewhere. He is the publisher of a flash fiction magazine Vestal Review. His novel My Life at First Try was published by Counterpoint Press to wide critical acclaim. He co-edited the anthology You Have Time for This from Ooligan Press; a new anthology is forthcoming in 2011 from Persea Books. http://markbudman.net

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010 12:47PM

Vote Mr. Lenin November 2, 2010 (and every day).

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I'm reading Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart.A hilarious book. I’m also reading the ads for the local candidates. Equally hilarious but, unlike Abrurdistan, illogical.

 For example. "[My Opponent] thinks that your money is his." No one can know what [my opponent] or anyone else thinks (except for the said opponent). Even more importantly, it only matters how this opponent acts. What they could have written "[my Opponent] ACTS AS IF your money is his." More logical and powerful. Logic has no power in the time of the sound bites. So instead of voting for your local tongue-tongues politician, vote Mr. Lenin (yes, he is alive).

Of course, this is not a presidential election yet, but one can dream.

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