Description: Sewing Shut My Eyes is a tour de force, an avant-pop antispectacle of nine darkly satiric outtakes. Visions of midair synchronicities, robotic cockroaches, cyborg poets, and one monstrous HDTV are all rendered in a hypomanic style of electrified clauses and full-throttle patter. Here's Mona Sausalito, a self-proclaimed "fricking gorgeous" bad little girl for Escort a la Mode and, on the side, a neo-Goth lyricist in the band of her boyfriend Mosh ("His real name is Marvin Goldstein"). Mona wants to be a poet: "I write about human sacrifices, cannibalism, vampires, and stuff. Mosh loves my work. He says we're all going to be famous some day. Only right now we're not, which bites, cuz I've been writing for like almost ten months. These things take time, I guess".

Olsen hallucinates a turned-on, channel-surfing nation where pain has become home theater and, with enough channels, watching TV beats sex. A nameless agent of the ultimate phantom bureaucracy holds his Yeltsin-70 at the ready and recalls O.J. on trial, supermodels and Styrofoam landscapes, America screening fast and addictive. In the title story, Kerwin Penumbro wakes on his birthday to the ultimate TV, the renowned Mitsubishi Stealth, while Itty Snibb, supremely confident dwarf and prosperous entrepreneur, prepares to meet God.

These are fictions for minds lit with cathode-ray tubes, for hands pixelated with static, for bodies that have become switching stations for the Society of the Spectacle.

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