For starters, the book cover for this is sandpaper - 150 grit, to be exact. This evokes, for me, a continuity that Alan may be unaware of: 1st: (S)crap 6 (magazine - the death and dismemberment issue - published by Chris Winkler, 1988): painted-on sandpaper cover (220 grit); 2nd: "Piece of Wood" - The Jim Sharpe Project (7" vinyl, Plastikville Records, date of release unknown to me - probably early 1990s): sandpaper w/ grit (120) facing inward in sleeve so that "Piece of Wood" gets sanded. In all 3 instances filing away the objects risks abrasion either to the publication itself ("Piece of Wood") or to adjacent objects (the other 2 examples). Interestingly, all of the grits are fine. No highly coarse 32 grit here!

My friend Brainpang told me an email today: "do you remember the SF hardcore punk band the Feederz sandpaper LP cover? Do you ever feel like killing your boss? That being the title of said album." So there's another example.

On the back credit page of this is written:

"26 copies
26Aug03
52 years

20 more copies
26Aug07
as the war rages on"

Perhaps the "Bad Dad" of the title is the United States as the world's policeman. Cruise Missiles & Dollars per death put in their appearance.

"Why don't they kill the dead people
for a change.
Let the dead kill the dead."

"Little Abbas
no longer has arms.
He was badly burned.
His parents were killed.
Nine other family members as well.
A nurse wipes away his tears.
He wants to die.
An accident
of a smart bomb." ( )