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Chris Genoa

Birth was the death of me

About Me


I'm Chris Genoa, the strapping youngish man who wrote the Bizarro novel FOOP! . You can learn absolutely nothing about me at ChrisGenoa.com , as my website is filled with nothing but lies and stupidity. For more lies and stupidity, check out FOOP! at Amazon , Powells or wherever you like to buy books. My next novel is a Thanksgiving romp called LICK YOUR NEIGHBOR. It was recently completed this fall, and will be available in bookstores everywhere, God knows when.
This is a character from FOOP!:
And here are some nice things that cool people said about FOOP!:
"Foop! is a surreal pie in the face."
-CHRISTOPHER MOORE, bestselling author of Fluke and Lamb
"Wild, fearless and wickedly clever, Foop! fireballs through time and space to find a future that is as absurd as it is heartbreaking. Wonderfully dark. A terrific read. An inspired debut."
-NICK SAGAN, author of Edenborn and Idlewild
"Weird humor, great characters, and descriptions of time travel so accurate that you'd think he's actually traveled through time."
-NEAL POLLACK, author of The Neal Pollack Anthology Of American Literature and Never Mind The Pollacks
"When they lock Genoa away in the booby-hatch, I hope they give him lots of pens and plenty of paper."
-JAMES MORROW, World Fantasy Award-Winning author of Towing Jehovah and Blameless in Abaddon
"With a talent for hyperbole reminiscient of the late Douglas Adams, Genoa stretches surreality to its snapping point and succeeds in delivering a hilarious debut novel."
-TONY VIGORITO, author of Just a Couple of Days

My Interests

Being a sexy author, watching cartoons, meeting people's moms, crying on the toilet, doing squat thrusts, attacking people with nerd toys like the Airzooka, saying "uh-oh," winking at people's dads while I'm meeting their moms, soft shoe dancing, losing a little bit of my will to live everytime a Philly sports team blows it, and so forth.

I'd like to meet:


Animals and people who shouldn't have wings, but somehow do.

Gimme some love:

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Music:

Arcade Fire, Ween, Wilco, Flaming Lips, Tori Amos, Tiny Tim, David Byrne, Neutral Milk Hotel, Silver Jews, Nick Cave, DJ Dangermouse, Brendan Benson, Ron Sexsmith, De La Soul, Postal Service, Harry Belafonte, Steve Malkmus, Bright Eyes, Lou Monte, Magnetic Fields, Pogues, Radiohead, Yo La Tengo, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, Beck, Kimya Dawson, Queen, Tom Waits, James, Fiery Furnaces, Fat Boys, Emmylou Harris, Enrico Caruso, T. Rex, MF Doom, Jay-Z, Jonathan Richman, Lemon Jelly...

Movies:

Anything by Terry Gilliam, Stanley Kubrick, Sergio Leone, and Orson Welles; Raising Arizona, Meet the Feebles, Tromeo and Juliet, Airplane!, Naked Gun, Army of Darkness, Robocop, Spirited Away, Kung Pow, Drunken Master, Once Upon a Time in the West, Fight Club, Kung Fu Hustle, Teen Witch...

Television:

Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Family Guy, 12 oz Mouse, South Park, Good Eats, Iron Chef, House, old Looney Tunes

My Blog

Touchdown! Yippee!

I'm going to qualify this by saying that I am a huge Philadelphia Eagles fan. But this picture. Which was in the Philadelphia Inquirer today. Has to be the gayest football picture ever. McNabb is prac...
Posted by Chris Genoa on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:40:00 PST

Pizzaioli Genoa

As I've said before to anyone who has cared to listen (namely, my cat)  if I ever get sick and tired of writing (or the more likely culprit of the publishing business), I'm going to open my own l...
Posted by Chris Genoa on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:04:00 PST

The Govenator goes Bwain!

In case you're wondering why the world is going to hell, I offer the following two pieces of evidence regarding the sanity of one of this country's elected leaders.Exhibit A: Exhibit B: ...
Posted by Chris Genoa on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:11:00 PST

Menswear Man

Well, it didn't take long for people to take notice (and advantage) of my stock photo model potential. JC Penney Men's Dress ApparelScrew writing! I have a future in Menswear!...
Posted by Chris Genoa on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:07:00 PST

Chris Genoa: Stock Photo Model

My lovely sister got married a couple months ago, and she recently got the pictures back.Now, you tell me. Do I, or do I not, look like a total douchebag in this picture?I mean really now. It looks li...
Posted by Chris Genoa on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 06:56:00 PST

Tay Zonday vs. Kuato

Exhibit A: Exhibit B: ...
Posted by Chris Genoa on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:56:00 PST

Psycho Killer

I've been talking about this clip for years, and now someone has finally put it on youtube. The final murder scene in Don't Look Now.The only background you need here is that for almost the entire mov...
Posted by Chris Genoa on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:56:00 PST

I Want a Pony!

Why do little kids love horses and ponys so much? Is it:A.) Because they want to be cowboys and cowgirlsB.) Because horses are cuteC.) Because horses are fun to ride onD.) Because little kids secretly...
Posted by Chris Genoa on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:16:00 PST

Bradford's Fobbing Rock

Another excerpt from:John Alden's Faire and Homologous History of The Plymouth Settlement1620-1621Original Letters Rendered into Modern English byDr. Theodore Nightshade PhD, Elementary School Teacher...
Posted by Chris Genoa on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:35:00 PST

Meemaw and Peepaw

I saw Spring Awakening last night. It was very good, and this is coming from someone who typically hates musicals. Mainly because a few years ago I was forced to see Mama Mia, and it nearly killed me....
Posted by Chris Genoa on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:56:00 PST