Books

Joseph Coaler Productions is proud to announce the publication of their latest book Weeping Willow Volume One: Welcome to River Bend, a real, physical book that you can hold in your hand and that smells like paper, which incorporates the first fifteen installments of their hit on-line satirical serial.

The path of Weeping Willow all the way from the minds of two warped individuals through the vast miasma of the Internet and into this book is a long and convoluted one (just like this sentence), but Geoff Hoff and Steve Mancini are doggedly determined.

Imagine a staid accountant from Chicago with a beige life forced to live in the attic of a diner owned by a man with questionable hygiene who has a prom carnation (and possibly Walt Disney) in his freezer, then reluctantly falling in with the local theater group (at least one of whom would spell it "theatre") after his wife falls for another man and empties his bank account. Weeping Willow follows Lee Harris, who desperately tries to make some sense of a new life that seems perversely committed to thwarting his efforts. It also follows the "writers", Geoff (the man with the world's largest head) and Steve (who thinks Othello is a board game), who banter, argue and comment throughout the narrative.

If you've ever wondered how a gay man and a straight man could agree on including a thirty year old, mint condition box of Wheaties, an alley covered in bubble gum, a Dualit toaster (the Rolls Royce of toasters), Spinoza, a Stingray bike and several autographed pictures of Danny Bonaduce into a single story and still get along, read "Weeping Willow Volume One: Welcome to River Bend."