A SERIES OF PAINED FACIAL EXPRESSIONS... (TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION) by Brian Alan Ellis (SIGNED)
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PRE-ORDER a signed paperback copy of Brian Alan Ellis’s 2016 crash-out classic, A Series of Pained Facial Expressions Made While Shredding Air Guitar (Tenth Anniversary Edition): Poems, Observations, Lists, Letters, Notes, Bullshit Aphorisms and General Tales of Ordinary Crabbiness, out June 06, 2026!
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“...A portrait of a youth built on bits and pieces of popular culture at a time where culture itself is spinning out of control. It could be the beginning of a literary revolution—a powerful and honest depiction of how we’ve all accepted alienation—or nothing at all. But it’s great.”—DEAD END FOLLIES
Have you ever listened to heavy metal albums on a tape deck while playing Mike Tyson’s Punch-out!! over at your best friend’s trailer? Are you a Shia LaBeouf completist? Have you ever wondered what would happen if you suddenly peed on your cat? Have you ever tried drunkenly convincing loved ones that Goodfellas is mandatory Christmas viewing? Do you long for the days when Hulkamania was the strongest force in the universe? Do you scream into pillows? Do you get sad pleasure from watching Chuck Morris kick the crap out of cokeheads? Do you eat cream cheese sandwiches for dinner and then cry yourself to sleep every night? Have you somehow Jacque Cousteau’d a new depth to the ocean that is your self-hate? Is this the year you finally give up and start a food truck and then immediately crash it into something?
If so, then congratulations: you’ve just graduated into your total dark side persona, and your host with the least, BRIAN ALAN ELLIS, is here to text you “zzzzzzz…” and other sweet nothings using a Virgin Mobile flip phone purchased at a dollar general before Obama was president, so get hella stoked for the tenth anniversary of this 2016 time capsule of a truly awful moment—now with nearly 40 pages of bonus goodies!
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180 pages // Paperback
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Release date: 6/06/26
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BRIAN ALAN ELLIS, owner and founder of House of Vlad Press and Vlad Mag, has published several books, including The Errors Tour. His writing has appeared at Juked, Hobart, Monkeybicycle, Fanzine, Electric Literature, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, HAD, X-R-A-Y, Heavy Feather Review, BULL and Forever Magazine, among many other places. He lives in Florida.
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