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1) Calypso
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Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
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Witty Insights and Rants on Serious Issues and Other Things That Just Piss Us Off
What number do you press to exact revenge after that voice throws you into the Twilight Zone of voice response systems?
Do you like getting junk mail?
Did you know becoming a citizen of the United States does not require learning English?
Can sex really be an addiction?
Should we legalize prostitution? End of life suicide?
What would your travel ban look like?
Should...
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"Rex Menudo and Satellites" is an adult comic novel in a similar vein as my first,, "The Adventure of the Knight Terrors". Rex tells of his wives, hepcats, friends Natasha Portmandu, Mike Drop, and Oscar LaWaigeau. There is anecdote about the superhero Les Moore. Rex meets other colorful characters over the course of his life.
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In the summer of 1996, I was contracted to manage the European Tour for Coolio, a popular Rap artist who had just won a Grammy and an Oscar nomination. It turned out to be perhaps the most exigent and bizarre assignment of my 32 year career to date. Now, in the following pages, the reader is taken behind the scenes where celebrity malfeasance and grotesque foolishness are a daily occurrence. Although rap music had been around for many years, this...
5) The Dirty Joke Book: Offensive, Politically Incorrect, and Poor Taste But Very Funny Jokes! (Seco
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The Second Edition. More edited and streamlined than the First Edition, revised to reflect reader input and add more jokes.Here it is, a collection of the funniest and most offensive jokes across a cross-section of popular topics:– Religion– Race, Ethnicity– Sex– Sluts– Blondes– Gays– Rednecks– PoliticsAnd More! WARNING TO THE SENSITIVE The reader should be aware this is a compilation of the most funny, irreverent, and politically...
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THEY'RE BACK! America's two favorite rednecks, "Whiskey" Dick Tomahawk and Elrod "Ammo" Bodean are back with a sequel to their bestselling American Women SUCK! book.Yep, they're equal opportunity abusers. American women already got down on the knees and endured their witty, good ol' boy charms, observations, and rants. Time for men to step up, bend over, and take it like a man in their new book… American Men SUCK!If you're a woman… enjoy. We put...
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Have you ever found yourself telling your stylist stories you wouldn't share with your closest friends? The power of touch and a sympathetic ear of your trusted colorist often lead to conversations typically heard by a psychologist with the added reward of beautiful color!
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Worried about inflation? Concerned about nuclear arms in the hands of terrorists? Nervous about fuel costs? This investment guide and survivalist's handbook in one is all you need to gear up for windfall profits while friends and in-laws lose their shirts. This book will enable you to watch the final convulsions of civilization from the veranda of your country estate. Invaluable strategies and suggestions include tips on: Finding and fortifying...
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Since the publication of the first Would You Rather...? title in 1997, Justin Heimberg and David Gomberg have gone forth to spawn a franchise that shows no signs of slowing down or growing old. In this hilariously hefty addition to the series, the authors have created more than 1,500 all-new, never-before-published questions that will have regular readers and newcomers alike laughing out loud as they ponder the often outrageous, sometimes sinful,...
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It's a Connection! It's a Comedy! compiles initial dating emails received by Gendelman and hundred of others across 22 U.S. states and 6 foreign countries. The emails represent the often curious an sometimes hilarious happening s on the World Wide Web. With gentle humor and helpful guidance, this lighthearted look at moderns romance will click with anyone who has tried their hand at online love, and lived to forward along their story!
11) Would You Rather...? An Absolutely Absurd Anthology: Over 3,000 Absolutely Absurd Dilemmas to Ponder
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This giant compendium of Would You Rather...? questions carefully selected from the author's oeuvre along with selection of new questions created just for this volume stands as the authors' masterwork. Sure to appeal both to Would You Rather...? scholars as well as the casual fan, Would You Rather...? Anthology is the stocking stuffer that will send holiday shoppers in search of a bigger stocking and recipients in search of weight training classes....
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A ghost from beyond visits a science fiction writer and dictates a book to him that contains the secret of life. Many topics are explored including religion, politics and sex, with the spirit inhabiting the writer's body to experience sex again. During this ghostly visit, the two share many adventures in New York City. It is a comic novel with serious overtones as the hapless writer channels work through this paranormal visitation. This is a hilarious...
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Meet me, Burgh Blonde, Pittsburgh's token single girl. This book picks up where Sex and the City left off but with a blue-collar, working-class American twist. In Pittsburgh, we're known for our sports teams, Primanti's sandwiches, and kitschy yinzer language. This book puts into context exactly what it's like to date men from the City of Champions and what a woman has to put up with when we are growing more successful and independent while the men...
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You've seen them before. They're in your home, in your office, on the street. You've encountered them at some fine and not-so-fine establishments. They're the new urban animals, and now they've been classified. You know you've met Every Mother's Worse Nightmare ("So what if it says Pussy' on the front, Mom? There's a picture of a cat under the word") and The Simpsons Quoter (Natural habitat: His own private Springfield, no further description necessary)....
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An American comic icon tells the story of his second-act rise from obscurity to multimedia stardom. "When I was a kid," writes Rodney Dangerfield, "I worked tough places in show business--places like Fonzo's Knuckle Room. Or Aldo's, formerly Vito's, formerly Nunzio's. That was a tough joint. I looked at the menu. They had broken leg of lamb." For once, one of America's most beloved comic icons isn't kidding. Dangerfield has seen every aspect of the...
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Have you ever been wronged and later realized that you triumphed over your transgressor-possibly years later? Well, this collection of tales of close calls with the law, outlaws, and Mother Nature- and highs and lows with great friends- has nothing to do with righting any such past wrong, but rather, it exists indirectly because of one.
If you're a glass-half-full kind of person, you'll appreciate learning through these short stories that life is...
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Meet Mavis Boothroyd and the crew of her fine vessel the 'Mavis D'. A jaunt around the Compass Bar at the Heathrow Hotel introduces The Owner, Master, Chief Engineer thru the ranks to the Ordinary Seaman including a couple of well seasoned wives. Each of these crew members telling true stories of rather unusual pursuits which the author was on most occasions the principal character. Circumstance and name aside, integrity has prevailed where after...
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A collection of true anecdotes, most with hilarious outcomes, some naming and shaming the famous, all grouped together under the headings of Shave, S**t, and Shower. A whimsical, occasionally sarcastic, though usually just downright funny, round-up of novelties, mishaps, and unfortunate events involving the author, Roy Dainty, which have helped shape the world during the past sixty years. How Led Zeppelin nearly didnt happen, the hidden joys of 1960s...
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