Despite the fact that it was nominated for a 2007 San Diego Book Award, Barzilla and other psalms is a tome for your bathroom book rack. It is funny, sarcastic, irreverent and obnoxious. Some might be inclined to call it poetry but really it is a reaction to poetry as it completely lacks poetic ambition, which is to say, it aims to entertain – not impress.

 

"At times whimsical and wonderful, at times brutal and twisted, at other times pained and longing, Edwin Decker doesn't let you get comfortable."

(Dave Rolland, editor, San Diego CityBeat)

 

"Edwin Decker is offensive, irreverent and inappropriate. I can't believe I haven't slept with him yet."

(Anya Marina, KBZT 94/9 FM San Diego)

 

 

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Union-Tribune, Entertainment Guide
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The Peninsula Beacon
'Barzilla' attacks Winstons with sharp wit

San Diego City Beat
Book Review

 

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Edwin Decker is a freelance writer living in San Diego, California. He has contributed to magazines and newspapers around the country including, Modern Drunkard Magazine, San Diego Reader, The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Stranger (in Seattle), Tucson Weekly, Cleveland Scene, Creative Loafing (Atlanta), and San Diego CityBeat - the latter of which runs his sarcastic, somewhat impolite column called Sordid Tales.

He has performed spoken word in venues throughout San Diego County including the California Center for the Arts in Escondido and the Museum of the Living Artist in Balboa Park.

His book Barzilla and Other Psalms was nominated for a 2007 San Diego Book Award and his performance piece, "Questioning Innocence is Questionable," won the San Diego Visual Arts Network multi-genre Performance Slam grand prize.

Decker is also on staff at the Southern California Writer's Conference during which he runs workshops and performs other duties. You can read his columns and various other writings at www.edwindecker.com.

DUCKY WADDLE'S EMPORIUM
POETRY RUCKUS
Wednesday, October 28
7:00 p.m. start
Ed Decker guest reads
Local poetry reading inaugural event
Preregister Here
Ducky Waddle's Emporium
414 N. Coast Hwy. 101
Encinitas, CA 92024
760-632-0488

TEAM TRIVIA PLUS
Wednesdays starting April 1st
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Ed Decker hosts weekly interactive team trivia (plus other games)
Drink and Food specials, and prizes!
710 Beach Club
710 Garnet Ave.
Pacific Beach, CA 92109