Is it Ubuesque, Kafkaesque or Absurd?
When I heard Saïd Sayrafiezadeh share his life as the child of an American socialist mother going from 'grape' avoidance to support the struggle of farm workers in California to groupie of Martha Stewart, my head was spinning.
This web of contradictions led him to write the just published When Skateboards Will Be Free (Random House).
Hey after all 'Punk's Not Dead' T-Shirts are still doing brisk business.
Related: What do I get? 'Anarchy in the UK', $400 at Christie's Punk Rock Auction