The mysterious nature of women, coupled with what seems to be a life slated for nothingness, has Joy Boy reeling. His consequent search for Dude, and all that he must know, begins a zany quest for something, anything, with more meaning and staying power than the 18-word sitcom descriptions he writes for his job at the TV Talon Times.
So begins a hilarious series of events filled with a wildly diverse array of impassioned, lonely and restless searchers, culminating in an explosion of pastoral bliss.
Meet Miles Standish Pickerel: bamboozler, American ne'er-do-well, and poor gringo extraordinaire. Newly divorced, culinarily clueless, and living in Mexico with his faithful canine companion, Ladrón, he shamelessly prepares traditional Mexican cuisine from low-cost (or no-cost) ingredients. If Miles Pickerel can't raise it, trap it, steal it, borrow it, pick it, or run it over, he doesn't put it in his pot. Neighborhood strays and local farmers beware. His recipes redefine the meaning of eating cheap in Mexico.
From school pranks to Plato, from yearbook to the gym, It Happened in School takes the reader on an entertaining and enlightening journey through the uniquely American institution, the public high school.
After teaching English and journalism, and coaching for more than thirty-five years, author Bob Crosby has seen it all--and enjoyed most of it. With a keen eye for detail, and a sharp ear for language, Crosby has crafted fifty stories from the fun side of high school life. Readers will enjoy learning about Crosby's experiences almost as much as he enjoyed writing them. Anyone who has ever experienced high school, and that includes most of us, will appreciate the resounding truth and uplifting joy that Crosby captures on this page. Pink tennis shoes, jellyfish, and Bacigalupis--look for them all in this delightfully upbeat collection of stories, It Happened in School.
In this collection of humorous essays, the author considers hitting the streets with a sign that says: Will Work for Botox. She also contemplates, along with many other burning issues of our time, the "joys" of staying in cramped home offices instead of a hotel when visiting friends. This is a delightful potpourri of rants, nostalgia, and just plain fun.
From the Author: "Most people don't have retentive memories, so verbalizing your opinions can sometimes be an historical nightmare: especially when beer is involved. That is why I have recorded the preceding pages for posterity. It is a bit of a guy thing but I am sure that women will love it. In all modesty, these essays and articles are all about me but I would be surprised if some of them didn't resonate with your own arsenal of memories. My shallow life is trivial but not uninteresting. You may recognize a like-minded soul? If so, we are well on the way to being book-buddies. My narratives are laced with wit and humor and revolve around the issues that you care about: relationships, animals, travel, sport stories and some celebrity revelations that you will find almost unbelievable. I commend the publication to you and urge you to consider it, when contemplating Birthdays, Christmas and Bar Mitzvahs." - Gerry Burke Melbourne, Australia
Letters to be Read in a Heavily British Accent recounts the hilarious (and historically-set) misadventures of Sherwood, a recruit in H. Majesty's army; and Penelope, his bit-of-all-right back home. Through their letters, they share incidents and events, and discuss their relationship, which looks good on paper, but...
Sherwood describes to Penelope in vivid, comic detail his experiences as a soldier, from training camp up to and beyond an epic mission. Penelope's attempts to keep from pining for Sherwood to a really inconvenient degree get her out of the house a lot - with just about everybody! Their separate adventures come together to form the climax (for lack of a better term) of their story.
When Jim Roastbeef Hume embarks on a quest to sprinkle his father's ashes in each of the forty-eight contiguous states, he has no idea that a series of bizarre and ridiculous adventures await. But nothing will deter him from fulfilling the promise he made to his dying father--not a brief incarceration in Iowa or a punctured lung in South Dakota. As he travels across the country, he picks up numerous new friends, presides over the ultimate party, poses as a lesbian s boyfriend, and gives away a very pregnant bride in a Las Vegas wedding. And who could have dreamed that somewhere amidst the craziness of dropping ashes from a crop duster and finding Elvis's toenail, Roastbeef would stumble upon a lucrative new career?
The Man With the Grasshopper Mind is a satirical romp, a burlesque of gender politics in the groves of academe. Dr. Douglas Ian MacPherson (Mac) is a professor at Daventry University. In his role as a scientist, he understands rats, though not, apparently, women.
He begins by clashing with Dr. Naomi Gelsey-Ashdown of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, goes on to offend every female on campus, and ends by alienating the affections (such as they were) of his wife.
Even Mac’s colleagues don’t care to know him, and aside from his dog, he has only one good friend and true—his marriage counselor and drinking companion, Dr. Yeti Bahnjakris.
The Unfroggettable Fiona Fayetta Froggee is a whole lot green, classy when she needs to be, one smart froggy, funny as any warty froggy sitting on a lilypad ever was and bent on achieving and succeeding in her many endeavors.
And yes, she loves to travel, is somewhat risque, and has a crush on Richard Gere.
The Best College Stress-Reliever Has Only One Pesky Side Effect
When the stresses of studying and coping with college life reach a boiling point, the remedy does not require a doctor’s prescription. Neither does it call for fake I.D. or cause you to wake up bleary-eyed and fuzz-brained. The best pressure release is laughter, and it comes not in a pill bottle or beer can—it comes in a book. Specifically Party Thru College, by Dennis Bruce. The only caution is that readers might end up with sore sides from incessant snickering, chuckling and guffawing.
This laugh-a-line spoof puts college into perspective and is best taken liberally at the first signs of stress.
Phil Camp has a problem. Not the fact that he wrote a parody of a self-helpbook (Where Can I Stow My Baggage?) that the world took seriously and thatbecame an international bestseller, or that he wrote the book under a phony name, Marty Fleck, and the phony name became a self-help guru overnight. Phil cannot be Marty Fleck. He can barely be himself.
No, Phil's problem is that he has been walking with a limp for nine months. Phil is in constant pain, yet there is nothing physically wrong with his body that would cause such agony. This problem leads him to the controversial Dr. Samuel Abrun, a real doctor who wrote a real self-help book (The Power of "Ow!") that made thousands of people pain-free.
So what happens when the self-help fraud meets the genuine item? Does he get better? Can he hobble out of his own way to help himself? Most important, can the reader make it through fifty pages without thinking, Wait a minute. Is that a twinge I feel in my lower back or just gas?
Award-winning humorist Diana Estill sets loose her alter ego Deedee Divine in this hilarious life survival guide. In her native Texas tongue, she explains why "family that doesn't kill you makes you stronger," women won't read maps, and men should never use the "B-word": budget. If you've ever wondered what keeps couples together (they accept flatulence as a sign of relationship comfort), where to find the path to success (follow the "7 habits of highly self-absorbed people"), or what regifting has to do with America's GNP ("Gross Needless Products"), Deedee has these answers and more. In Deedee Divine's Totally Skewed Guide to Life, Estill, author of Driving on the Wrong Side of the Road, has once again turned life's absurdities and annoyances into side-splitting laughs.
Set in 1987, when the price of beef plummets due to health concerns, a simple family of cattlemen from a small town in Texas decide to drive their herd to New York City rather than face bankruptcy under the belief that the Big Apple is nothing but a big meat market. The book has it all - Action, Adventure, Humor, Livestock!
From the author: "Thought that title would grab your attention. Actually, although I do like both, this travelogue has nothing to do with great tits and/or any pussy. It's what we in the trade call a "gimmick." And, by the way, let's be clear - the Great Tit I refer to is a very common and widespread bird found throughout most of Spain. The Pussy is a customary term for the domestic cat, of which there is also an abundance in Spain. Google it. "I've called many places home over the past four years - Prague, a Greek fishing village, Madrid - but now it's a town on the coast of Andalucía that goes by the name of Cádiz. Ah, Spain. Life is grand here. The sun shines nearly everyday, the wine is good and cheap, and the olive oil is abundant. But there are a few things that one needs to get used to..."
A fishing adventure goes awry when two anglers unwittingly make campsite in the middle of a great black bear's den. For three hair-raising days, Vincent and Eugene, manage to survive the onslaught of an enraged wilderness beast in an environment they just don't understand. The harrowing journey leads these lovable characters down a comical path where each new twist is an adventure in itself, even when the going gets rough and both men appear to be on the verge of their demise.
