Author, Author!

So, three of the asinine boys read this week at Junno's with the fine folks at the Needle Exchange Hour, a newly inaugurated reading series run by those rapscallions Tim Hall and Ken Wohlrob, who read their prose along with Brian Cogan. The asinine boys R. Narvaez (eerily on time), ern modern (an hour late, but only missing 10 minutes of performance), and Bob McNamara (two hours late, on account of bad directions, but on stage within minutes!). R Narvaez sputtered along, hawking his '"Childhood's Smell" chapbook. Since no other asininer had arrived he figured he would have to do again, but in walked ern, who when he went to the podium gave the audience a 10-minute preparatory speech about pets before reading three great animal poems (the last he read twice, the second time in Latin; I am NOT kidding). Then Narvaez figured he'd bat clean up, but in walked McNamara, who, with two minutes to prepare, gets up there and kills, adding a piquant history of professional wrestling in the '70s before he read ''Bo Bo Brazil." It was a fun time, especially with the beer and wine. The next reading is next month. You should come by. Really.