how successful the book had become

"Blake wondered what exactly it was that everyone had done to this author. He doesn't doubt people had don him wrong—he  just wonders exactly what it was. Had they ignored him his entire life? Had they shoved him against lockers, tripped him in the halls, offered high-fives with pushpins wedged between their fingers? Blake wished the man had been alive to know how successful the book had become, wished he could actually enjoy making people eat shit."

~~ from Hashtag Good Guy with a Gun by Jeff Chon

Ignatius J. Reilly

"On a book tour, [Susan] Fuentes will call Ignatius J. Reilly a 'Proto-Troll, the Mitochondrial Adam of Incels,' mention his love for Batman serials and penny arcades, his hatred for Doris Day's beauty. She will never know that [Blake] Mesman hadn't actually read the book."

~~ from Jeff Chon's Hashtag Good Guy with a Gun

race stuff

"But when I make my way over to [Officer] Inoue, he tells me that if I'm going to try some Asian crap it won't work, so I ask him what the hell that even means.

"The race stuff, he says. You're Asian, and I'm Asian, so you think we have some kind of connection. I'm telling you right now that we don't. I'm Japanese, and you're either Chinese or Korean. There's no connection here, so please sit down and wait while my backup gets here."

~~ from Jeff Chon's "There's No Connection Here" in King Ludd's Rag, No. 5, May 2021