A Brief Conversation with My Hair is a collection of short literary humor pieces that have been previously featured on such websites at McSweeney's, Yankee Pot Roast, The Big Jewel, Opium Magazine, and The Science Creative Quarterly. Some of the titles (which may give you an idea of the content) are: "The Calls of Cthulu", "All I Need to Learn, I Learned From Kindergarten Cop", "Diary of a Grocery Cart", "Dionysus: Party Clown", and "A Brief Conversation with My Hair". The forty-plus pieces in this collection find the bizarre in the everyday or some bit of the everyday in the already bizarre. If you ever wondered if Allen Ginsburg could have put his considerable talent to writing pay-per-click ads or how Calvin and Hobbes may have responded to reading Hemingway, you will find the answers here.
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How Are You Doing? - The world has been waiting a long time for a simple guide on how to respond to the simple but common question - How Are You Doing? And as you will learn from this teaching tool, the best way to learn how to do something, is to first learn how not to.
The Calls of Cthulu - H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulu, an Elder God of the Damned, may be able to strike absolute terror in those who behold his terrible visage, but when it comes to operating a simple telephone, the Elder God finds life to be a bit more complicated.
Walt Whitman's Guide to Cooking for Bachelors - The great venerable poet, Walt Whitman, was a consummate bachelor. He also had a flair for rustling up some hearty grub. Mr. Whitman offers up his favorite cooking tips for all you modern-day bachelors. In verse, too!
A Life Reviewed: A Collection of Blurbs - What if your life was held under the scrutiny of a series of reviewers? Then what if those reviews were reduced to a bunch of blurbs? Well here is the author's life reviewed in this highly unlikely and silly scenario.
Living The American Dream - A rare example of truth being stranger than fiction - and possibly funnier. This collection of quick tales are my true brushes with famous people. And isn't that really the American dream?
Random Quotes on Fame and Nostalgia from the Cereal Monsters - It has been a very long time since Count Chocula, Frankenberry, and Boo-Berry were at the height of their fame. Now in their golden years, they have the time and perspective to reflect on this period of their lives. How has fame and nostalgia affected the cereal monsters? They reveal the answers in their own well-considered words.
How to Write Your Own Proverbs - Most people hold a deep desire to write their own proverbs. Many also have no idea what they actually are. Your helpful and knowledgeable narrator will illuminate you on every aspect of the amazing world of proverbs, and even a bit more.
Diary of a Grocery Cart - From its initial journey to a Piggly Wiggly in Penopshaw, Indiana to its final days lost in the swamp behind the store, we hear the daily musings of a very eager and earnest grocery cart.
