Humor writer Gregg Greenberg has such distaste or disdain for Billy Joel’s music that he can remember the lyrics to. “When I was growing up in Hicksville, they kept making us sing his songs in the chorus in elementary school and junior high school. They would play it at the mall. You just could not escape Billy Joel.”
In his book F*cking Argentina and 10 More Tales of Exasperation, Greenberg writes his sentiments in an autobiographical fashion.
The short story tells of a guy who’s in love with this girl, but she has this one terrible character trait — she loves Billy Joel’s music! She sings it in the shower, watches his videos, and even wants her boyfriend to a BJ concert. And such is the deal-breaker for the guy who hates Billy Joel that much! What happens next for them? #It’sNotYouIt’sBFJ
ABOUT THE BOOK
F*cking Argentina and 10 More Tales of Exasperation by Gregg Greenberg is a compilation of short stories that dive into the American phenomenon of being in a near-perpetual state of aggravation. Greenberg’s anthology brings together eleven original pieces of work, each with their own slice of independent and distinct plot lines but all converging on the universal theme of exasperation. They run the whole gamut of scenarios, from the titular story “F*cking Argentina” wherein the country is once again in bankruptcy and a polite game of tug o’ war plays out on a porch, to “A Journeyman Tennis Player’s Prayer” with a low ranking U.S. Open contender begging God for a comparable opponent. Both stories end with the superlative f-word, which showcases at some point in other stories, and a guaranteed chuckle from their readers. Buy the book here: http://fckingargentina.com/.
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