Review of “Bama Profiles in Courage: Laykin”: (Capers) Barr flexes through an emotional range that most writers would never dare attempt … Humor and Bama sorrow are fused together like twined tree trunks that keep each other standing…..It’s part satire, part character study, with a wry lens on fame, fandom, and the modern South. Well done, Capers, well done.”– Ian Allen, The Times Literary Supplement.

I have never really witnessed an “internet phenomenon” in first person. Like a William Hung, or Star Wars Kid, or Tay Zonday. People that perform their “art” either completely blind to the awful awful reaction they are getting or so enamored with their performances that they keep at them irrespective of the tomatoes being hurled in their general e-direction.

This dude is obviously not as big as those above, nor will he ever be, but he is a microcosm of the craft. I for one cringe and applaud simultaneously; it takes quite a strong man (read sociopath) to continue to do what he is doing in the face of near-unanimous venom.

But who knows – maybe he is the next Kaufman.

Or not.

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