Brandon Craig ‘Diddy’ Jones (Mr.J)

AMPHIGORY ALMANAC

http://www.outskirtspress.com/meetmrj

Debuting author, Brandon C. Jones, hits the scene with his complete collection of work. Each chapter is autonomous and non-interdependent on the others. It’s the kind of treatise that can be read in several different settings without losing momentum. Tone, word choice, style, and they fluctuate but motifs of a throwback to archetypal Woody Allen’s erudite absurdity act as the midwife to the birth of a refreshing style of American literature. Brandon Jones majored in English and Communications at Old Dominion University. He’s performed standup comedy at HA! Comedy Club NYC. He’s written for radio, TV, and the stage. And Mr. Jones has been published in copious periodicals including News Blaze, TCC Times, VA Pilot, Mace and Crown, Daily Comedy, and Punch Line Magazine.
This book includes

-screen plays-

-short stories-

-random one liners-

-fake self disparaging reviews-

-historical fiction-

-bromance-

-and much more

It’s the kind of book y’don’t have to read all in one setting. MEET MR.J encompasses a myriad of assorted amphigories ranging from plays on Ben Franklin, lists of one-liners, short stories, teleplays on ‘bromance’, pontificated, postulated, and populated prose preponderantly by parading precipitous, pretentious, pompous, polysyllabic pedantry. Finally a voice for an unspoken generation speaks with acerbic wit and ear tickling vernacular that rings true.

Parenthetically, 236 typos (i.e.: errors of grammar, syntax, semantics, linguistics, etc) have been intentionally left not to exasperate a maladroit writing skill but to accent how frivolous and moot rules can be in creative writing. It’s a “Where’s Waldo” of Errors making it interactive for the grammar gurus’ scrutiny. Sometimes the stream of consciousness may seem scatterbrained and unfocused but this was not done adventitiously. Each word was diligently and rigorously labored over. The steadfast and unwavering pace of self deprecating & self disparaging levity reminds the reader that the mission of the book is to be jocular and jovial at its own faults, follies, and foibles.