#6 Pirate Station (2006) Rick Moody
Before reading this short story, I’ve only read two novels
by Rick Moody. I absolutely loved Garden
State, and absolutely hated Purple America, so it could’ve gone either way
here. What makes Moody both salient and
sometimes hard to read is he takes the most uncomfortable or unstomachable
situation you can think of and magnifies it for 300 pages…not here thankfully.
Pirate Station is a very short, running description about
what is being broadcast on a particular Pirate Radio Station. Its funny, creative, satirical and
bafoonish. I loved it. If read as a monologue, it is actually
something you might hear on an alternative pirate radio station. Although not strictly speaking a short story,
I’m allowing some works like this into this project to explore exactly where
the lines of that definition stretch. My only complaint, It could have been longer.
Notable Passage: The whole thing is a notable passage but
here are a few examples:
“The sounds of southwestern cacti are broadcast for several
weeks until, by general assent, it is agreed that cacti make no sounds”
“A contest is announced on the pirate station to find the
person who has the best radio voice. This person is then tickled mercilessly on
air and driven blindfolded to a distant metropolis”
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