Review of The Norbert Chronicles, Volume I (Paperback)

My family and I all enjoyed Norbert. We laughed out loud alot. You already know Norbert whether you have been in his shoes(and are wondering what is going on around you) or you come across some of the same characters that he does ( and are still wondering what is going on around you). Great book that's easy reading when you want a quick scenario or want to lose yourself in Norbert's world for a while.

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Norbert. He's bewildered. He's befuddled. He's frightened. He's flatulent. He's on a quest to seek enlightenment, but he has to stop off at Dunkin' Donuts first. He hitches up his underwear when no one is looking, and toddles along to Cubicle City, dragging a pail lunch and a brick-pak of Hawaiian Punch. He's fighting the corporate system for the return of his soul; he's leaving his pee cup in the wrong window. He's dreaming big dreams, while stuck in a cubicle-infested nightmare. Along with Smelly Larry, Tonia Murkwater, Mr. Babaganoush, Madame Fu-Fu the Tarot Card Reader and Hinkelmeyer the Nerd Shaman, Norbert has high hopes that life will someday be better. Or at least, a lot less perplexing. ******* From the wild mind of Louisa StrongBear, comes the book you've all been waiting for: the unabridged, uncensored, and completely unprecedented NORBERT CHRONICLES!! Herein lies the untold true story of Norbert Dortmunder, Nerd Extraordinaire, who toddles into his cubicle each morning and ends up in an alternate realm free of corporate dogma and his butt-compressing cube chair. There Norbert can be a hero, become enlightened, or get pelted with lard, all depending upon where he lands in the otherworld. Join Norbert as he leaves no stone unturned in his quest for answers. But first let him remove the wedgie he has caught in his Bermudas, okay? Norbert Dortmunder: Cubicle City's favorite nerd!

About the Author
Louisa StrongBear is a shaman, poet, clairvoyant medium, teacher, artist and witch, all at the same time, and in no particular order. She loves chocolate, as was mentioned in her first book, as well as the beach, books, the colors yellow and gold, all kinds of animals, thunderstorms, cemeteries & other spooky stuff, dancing & singing & laughing as often as possible. Louisa is also known as "Louisa the Psychic" and does clairvoyant readings. The Norbert Chronicles is Louisa's second book. Her first is: Journey By Night: A Solitary Journey, which is told as a shamanic journey, and does not contain any lard or fart stories.

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Review of Journey to the Darkside: Supermom Goes Home (Paperback)

my baby is almost 11 months and i'm looking at going back to work in a month. naturally i've flirted at the idea of quitting my bank job and staying at home. this book gives a preview of what awaits! it's another jungle out there, and it only seems great and promising when one is still deciding to crossover. to other moms, read this and be forewarned. anyway i really enjoyed the book and would recommend it to others looking for some insight and comic relief!

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In her latest book, popular humorist and parenting writer Kathy Buckworth takes a good, hard look at what happens when high-powered corporate moms decide to hang up their briefcases and venture into the uncharted waters of the stay-at-home world.

Journey to the Darkside: SuperMom Goes Home explores the culture shock that results when a woman goes from being a corporate go-getter to being an unpaid chauffeur, chef, and maid. Think you're a pro at dealing with office politics? Wait until you attend your first PTA meeting. Confident in your ability to make sound wardrobe choices? Don't listen too closely to what the other stay-at-home moms are saying at the park. Expect your husband to help out when you're feeling under the weather? Hah!

Part guidebook, part warning, Journey to the Darkside is insightful, hilarious, and brutally honest. It will have moms (stay-at-home or otherwise) laughing out loud-which is a good thing, because otherwise, they might have to cry.

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Review of Still Hanging In There: Confessions of a Totaled Woman [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

I read this book last month and I am still laughing. Jan handles so many subjects including doctors, exercising, not exercising, football reruns, makeup for men, politics, advertising, television, sex and all family matters including dogs and gophers with great humor and philosophy. While I yell at my kids for not doing their homework, she contemplates an excuse note, since she's run out of excuses, claiming that since her little Boris is an alternate astronaut he needs to be alert and not start his homework if there is a chance he would not be on earth to complete it. Of course she does not really let him get away with it. She believes everyone must be responsible for their own lives including the kid who wet his diapers and claimed his daddy did it. She knows he couldn't have since dad works downtown. She declares that while she became a liberated lady and let everyone do "their own thing" her family and the nation started to fall apart. Now that she is back doing what she does best, "Nagging", everything is back on track, She has advice for the lovesick in a chapter called, "HOW TO TELL WHEN IT'S OVER". Here are a few subtle signs there may be trouble brewing, according to Jan: When he joins Parents WITHOUT Partners, If he introduces you as his "former wife"When he advertises on a giant billboard, "I love you Myrna" and your name is not Myrna, If you return home to find him napping with an army buddy and the towels read HIS and HIS, it may be time for a little chat at Starbucks. Good advice. She handles it all with such fun and insight. The problems that usually annoy me, she sees totally differently in an amusing way. It has taught me to approach my life in a lighter manner. How could I not like someone who claims as I do that "Pasta is her life." Among her fantasies: Diving into an Olympic size pool filled with spagetti and eating her way out. She also reveals how she turned flab into dollars. Jan Marshall is a very funny lady. I would absolutely recommend buying this book.

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A lighthearted manual for getting through each day with humor and giddiness. It is a delightful look at some of our minor, daily irritants that includes marriage, motherhood, football reruns of highlights of last year's game and the men we love who watch them... again and again.

The book is filled with astounding anti-diet/anti-exercise advice in the chapter "How I turned flab into dollars." While Jan was jogging she thought she heard applause. Regretfully it was simply her thighs hitting together. She was paid extremely well to leave the neighborhood. Franchise anyone?

There are time management tips "If you do not polish silver for six years it begins to look like pewter. Pewter is nice!" This joyful philosopher notices most human absurdities, ponders, reflects and then answers such questions as "Can we really leave nagging to strangers? Why is it that for every light on Broadway there is a runny nose? She agrees with Hemingway that though the sun also rises, it also fades the drapes.

This witty book will have you shaking with glee (67 calories expended) as you realize the stuff that really annoys you can be thought about in a more amusing, tolerable and weight losing manner.

About the Author
Jan claims her overbite is from hanging in there by the skin of her teeth. Founder of the International Humor/Healing Institute she is a Certified Master Clinical Hypnotherapist, humorist and speaker. A frequent guest on radio and television she actually believes not a shred of evidence exists that life is serious.

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Review of Paradise Screwed (Hardcover)

Carl Hiaasen's second compilation of his Miami Herald columns continues to show the biting wit which is prevalent in his usually terrific novels.But my guess is that the first book of columns "Kick" was probably designed to be the Best of Hiaasen with no plans for a sequel.Thus the columns contained in "Paradise" are the second cut and thus just not as good, although they are enjoyable to read.Not as many idiotic South Florida politicians this time around, not as many idiotic citizens.I was also disappointed in the way he handled the Florida election fiasco for the 2000 Presidential election.This was a topic just made for his humor, but he chose to use his forum as a soapbox to get a recount and to get Al Gore elected (he doesn't say it, but it was pretty obvious to me).My hope is that he plans to use this as fodder for a future novel and thus wanted to save his material.

Hiaasen is a great columnist.I live over 1,000 miles away from South Florida, but he gets his point across pretty well.It would have been nice if each story had a little afterword as to what ultimately happened to the people in the column (i.e. did the politician give up his $15,000 desk that was paid for with taxpayer money voluntarily).

Good for the Hiaasen completest, but the first book "Kick" is the better choice.



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Review of "Call Me Dad, Not Dude": Humorous Commentaries on Parenting and Coping in Today's World (Paperback)

I laughed out loud at least once during each essay, reading this on a plane and on vacation.People looked up to see what was so funny.Ican't decide if the style of this book is like Garrison Keillor ghostwriting for Dave Barry or vice versa, but the outcome is very enjoyable.

If you have teenagers, were ever involved with Boy Scouts, coached your kid's rec-league teams, have a dog that everyone loves, or grew up in a simpler time, you'll appreciate these stories.A good collection of solid essays, long enough to dig into a subject/theme without getting lost. A great gift book that people will get hooked on from the first essay.



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Parenting in contemporary times provides Matthew Keenan with an endless amount of material. Keenan looks at life with a smile and shares his humorous perspective with his readers on a variety of topics that resonate with parents of all ages.

Keenan doles out parental observations from A to Z, including:

* Teens, cell phones, and parental insanity.
* Axe body spray: Gagging for fresh air on a Friday night.
* A daughter's diary and three teenage brothers: Dial 911 now!
* Your daughter wants a horse: hire a bankruptcy attorney first.
* Boy Scouts and campouts: expect heavy rain.
* Spring break trips: it's not really spring and my children don't need a break.
* Teenage sons and drivers education school - take the next exit.
* Coaching the 'non premier' teams: Bad News Bears, Kansas style.
* Waking up teenage boys: tips and tricks for an on-time school arrival.
* My sons' homework crisis: why is this my problem?
* High school dances- life gets complicated quickly.

About the Author
Matt Keenan is a humor columnist whose writings draw from the most vital of all subjects: family.His columns have appeared in the Kansas City Star for the last seven years. His articles will have parents laughing in agreement at his witty assessments of everything from carpool lines to First Communion. Underneath the humor in his articles is a poignant look at the modern American family living in the heart of the Midwest, Kansas City. Some readers will share Matt's remembrances of his own childhood-the old wood paneled Chrysler station wagon and the golden days of Catholic school education. Matt's articles will make you laugh out loud ... and keep you smiling throughout the day.
Matt and his family live in Leawood, Kansas, but they spend most of their time in the car running a cab service for their four teenage children.

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Review of Better Living Through Bad Movies (Paperback)

If you're like me (and I know I am, and you've wondered why bad movies are made, wonder no more! Bad Movies are made to teach us life lessons! That's right--they teach us the lessons that Oprah and Dr. Phil missed!

Its full of great life lessons and hilarious snark! (Check out the chapter about "RedDawn" for lovely snarkieness on the Bushes!)

Be careful where you read it, though.I laughed out loud on the bus so many times, I got dirty looks from the driver!

This is just a great, funny book.A definite must read for bad movie lovers and MST3k fans (like me)

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We've all heard that, 'you learn more from failure than you do from success.' Which means that all those hours spent watching crappy movies wasn't a waste of your precious and ever-dwindling life span; it was an education! And Better Living Through Bad Movies can show you how to extract the profound, life-affirming lessons from films like Battlefield Earth, Coyote Ugly, and Indecent Proposal.

In over 50 hilarious reviews, the authors show how you can use the worst movies ever made to improve your sex life (it involves cardboard cutouts and clog dancing), Apocalypse-proof your home (using the following materials: John Travolta, Kevin Costner, Sylvester Stallone and more Kevin Costner), and win omnipotence and a Happy Meal by solving Satan's Junior Jumble. You will also discover how to forge a love that will last a lifetime (by dating the moribund), use films like Batman and Robin and Star Wars: The Phantom Menace as grief counseling, and conquer the world using common fruit bats and dry cleaning fluid. And most important of all, you'll learn Hollywood's Ultimate Secret: Why Beaches and Armageddon are actually the exact same movie.

About the Author
Scott Clevenger is a former columnist for Razor magazine and a script doctor who is familiar with the sausage-making process of film production in intimate, Upton Sinclair-like detail. He lives in Hollywood and is personally acquainted with the guy who hangs around the Chinese Theater and aggressively panhandles in a Tickle Me Elmo costume.

Sheri Zollinger spent 15 years in the CIA's Office of Counter-intelligence, and is now officially counter intelligence. She currently writes the political humor weblog World O' Crap (world-o-crap.com), which has been cited by MSNBC, CNN, The Washington Post and other news organizations that ought to know better.

She lives in an undisclosed location with a classified number of pets.

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Review of Working for the Man: Inspiring and Subversive Projects for Residents of Cubicle Land (Paperback)

Any book that starts with the disclaimer "Doing some of the things in this book may get you fired. You've been warned" has to have some true gems inside. Buckle your seat belt, sit back in your cubicle and take in the numerous hints on how to be successful, in spite of "the man."

At first blush, you might think that everything in WORKING FOR THE MAN is geared toward the negative aspects of cubicle living. Not so. There are very funny sections here about surviving your boss's tirades, preparing for performance evaluations and many other tactics --- not just to survive but to flourish. On most pages there are small quotation boxes with a numbered rule. These are fun and easy to digest. "Rule 11: The shorter the message, the more trouble you're in. `Call me as soon as you get in' is bad. `See me' is really bad."

Boss case studies include the Could-You-Get-Me-A-Cup-of-Coffee (or bagel, etc. and never pay you back) Boss, the Change This One Thing (or two, or three, also known as the sea of red ink) Boss, the Reader of Pop Psychology Business Books Boss and of course the ever-popular It's 5 o'clock on Friday But I Really Need You to Get This Done Boss. Everyone can relate to at least one of these classifications.

Author Jeffrey Yamaguchi challenges his readers to be creative. Take, for example, the chapter on co-workers. Here you have the opportunity to complete individual scenarios, exactly as your mood suits you. In the chapter on "friendly competition" we are offered numerous opportunities to engage in activities that you do every day at work anyway, so why not make them fun? Some are riskier than others, so proceed with caution! The meetings pool and most emails in a day contests look like fun.

The absolute winning chapter is "Surreptitious Projects." You can get in some serious trouble, but they really are hysterical. "Truth in muffins: Set out a tray of muffins or doughnuts or bagels. Then, put a sign in front of the tray that says `For Upper Management Only.'" Or everyone's favorite: On the vending machine leave a message for the vending distributor to "please stock with those little bottles of Jack Daniels."

And "comments from a concerned coworker" are priceless: "Please stop leaving food out, even if it's wrapped and stored in your desk drawers. I am starting to see bugs. Sometimes my desk is completely covered in giant roaches. They seem to appear and then hide in the blink of an eye."

WORKING FOR THE MAN is a primer, a "must-have" for anyone working in corporate America who truly sees the humor (often preceded by frustration) in the sometimes frivolous work environment. To survive, we must rise above the trivialities of daily living. Now, to really live and thrive, try implementing some of these treasures! In the now-immortal words of Yamaguchi, "Don't get mad, get inspired."

--- Reviewed by Marge Fletcher

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A book for the subversive worker lurking in every cubicle-from the creator and author of 52 Projects.

For anyone frustrated with the soul-killing monotony of a nine-to-five job, this quirky collection helps beat the office blues, inspire creativity in seemingly dead-end situations, and preserve a bit of integrity in a conformist corporate culture. Learn how to:

- Survive long, boring meetings with breath-holding contests- Plot out a "sick day" calendar to maximize time off- Write your novel on company time- Create the most pro-worker cubicle to instill a false sense of your total commitment- Anonymously send your boss a Happy Secretary's Day bouquet

About the Author
Jeffrey Yamaguchi is the author of 52 Projects and the publisher of 52Projects.com, as well as the popular websites bookmouth.com, workingfortheman.com, and whatsyourproject.com

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Review of Greyhound Diary (Paperback)

Thank all that is evil that James Inman got on the wrong bus. If he hadn't, then we wouldn't have his 'Greyhound Diary'. My own experiences on the bus have been quite pleasant -- in sharp contrast to Inman's -- but I also have no story to tell (and it's only a coincidence, James, that I'm writing this while traveling on the bus).

To its credit, Inman's story is a fairly quick read. If it weren't, you'd wonder how he lived to tell the tale or why you were still reading it.

Inman's lists, his rants, his smoldering, smelly details all add up to a laugh-out-loud read no matter where or when you read them, though alcohol would make a nice companion piece.

'Greyhound Diary' is 'On the Road' for the homeless, 'Oh, The Places You'll Go' for the chronically mentally ill, and 'The Grapes of Wrath' for people who would never read that book in the first place. It's a sweet, sloppy slice of America's yawning underbelly.

James Inman isn't a genius, but his work is.

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The Greyhound Diary Travel Guide is a depressingly hilarious roaming narrative. A postmodern Odyssey from the backwoods of Wheatland to the lost highway in West Memphis. From the trashed streets of Newark to the industrial cesspool that is Cleveland. Trapped inside the Turtle Boat with tattooed clowns and freak-show white trash, a grueling masochistic non-stop journey into the heart of fear. Everyone, regardless of age, race, color, creed, sexual orientation, class distinction and/or drug and alcohol dependency will relate to this universal saga steeped in American popular culture. This horrid tour is a cynical account of what it feels like to be out there on the bus in the middle of nowhere crawling around at ten miles an hour with Amelia Earhart's retarded brother at the controls. This is everything you've forgotten on those trips home from college. A fascinating, compelling ride.

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Review of Diary of Indignities (Paperback)

Hughes is able to tell his stories with both humor and humanity.Everyone has tales of growing up, but this book is written at a level of skill very few story tellers could come close too even if their adventures were as notable. Through most of the book you will find yourself laughing out loud, but at least one chapter choked me up to the point I pronounced it as "the saddest thing I've ever read". Do yourself a favor and buy this book.

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Diary of Indignities first foisted itself on an unsuspecting public on the popular blog Bad News Hughes, where thousands of readers are disgusted, amused and just plain baffled by these vivid, seriocomic stories of soul-melting shame. Patrick Hughes doesn't understand exactly where, or when, things went wrong in what should have been a "normal life," but he's more than happy - make that driven - to share his personal calamities with his readers. Inexplicably, he has an uncanny talent for personal failure, with more than the average share of embarrassment, heartbreak, carefree violence, booze, bodily injury, hypochondria, inappropriate nudity, painful rashes, neuroses, colonoscopy procedures and unpleasant smells - all totally true. In Diary of Indignities, complete with humiliating full-color photo essays, the author guides readers past good taste, sense and even logic into that magical, mayhem-ridden world known as his life.

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Review of Your Cat's Just Not That Into You: "What Part of Meow Don't You Understand?" (Paperback)

My cat wrote this review. He says, "What I like most about books is that, if you lay on one, people tend to stop reading and pet you. I plopped down on top of this one and it felt pretty comfortable. Sure enough, my pet human stopped and gave me a great massage. She says the book explains why we cats can be aloof and disdainful. It has many "Dear Abby" type letters, classified ads, advice and definitions.

One classified ad read, "If you're submissive, read on. Upbeat, Rubenesque Maine Coon seeks good home with endlessly giving, insecure owner who'll try to please me even when I'm having a hissy fit. The right owner will never assume he's doing too much for his pet, or experience moral outrage if I "get lucky" with a gopher. Let's have lunch and talk."

This book also offers a peek into a cat's mind and offers other advice that our humans ought to know. Hey, my human is still laughing over it -- so it must be good. Besides, I like to see my pets amused. You might want to educate your pet humans with this book, too."

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Aloof. Haughty. Disdainful. Withholding. Moody. Petulant. Imperious. Sound like anyone you know? It does if you own a cat. And while you've probably made hundreds of excuses about why your cat's this way, the sad fact is-your cat's just not that into you.

Don't despair. It's not you. It's your cat. Cats invented not being into you. Richard Smith is here to explain, and help.

Forlorn cat owners everywhere will see themselves in this book-in the "I Guess Her Mind Is on Other Things" excuse. In the "Maybe She Needs Her Own Space" excuse. In the "Maybe He Didn't Recognize Me in My New Hawaiian Shirt" excuse. They'll educate themselves about feline indifference through the Know Thy Kitty Quizzes. Test their cat's I.Q. Take the Schnapps-Porsche Well-Adjusted Cat Owner Analysis. Discover Ten Ways to Suck Up to Your Cat, including #2: leave affectionate Post-its in her kitty litter.

In the tradition of All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat (1.7 million copies in print), Kliban's Cat (985,000 copies in print), and even New York Timesbestseller Bad Cat (487,000 copies in print), Your Cat's Just Not That Into You is utterly loopy and yet dead-on wise-this is, after all, from the author of the classic Dieter's Guide to Weight Loss During Sex. It's filled with insights into the interior life of the world's most maddeningly mysterious animal, and into the damaged psyches of cat lovers who are so often given to wonder: Am I my cat's punk?

From the Back Cover
Dear Richard:

It was one of those perfect mornings. There I was, lying in bed with my cuddly Maine Coon, Shakespeare, snuggled up against me, his eyes half-closed, purring and exuding warmth like a giant, smelly heating pad. Suddenly he meowed and in a matter of seconds was off the bed and in the next room. Did I do someting wrong? Should I have let him get under the quilt? I really thought Shakespeare and I were having a "moment."

Allie

Dear Allie,

Are you (still) lying down? Good, then I can tell you that with cats, that's all there is-a moment, which pretty much sums up their attention span. Shakespeare wasn't with you one moment and gone the next; he was gone even while he was there, much like some men who, during a night of bliss, seem to have already put on their clothes and left. The difference, of course, is that cats don't have clothes to put on.

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Review of Sit! Ancestral Dog Portraits (Paperback)

A magnificent display of heroes, scoundrels, statesmen and moguls from times past. Utterly hilarious and even credible, it draws you back again and again for another look. Where is the next edition!!

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Originally published in 1993, SIT! was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times and was excerpted in Harper's Magazine and The New York Times Book Review. George Booth, writing in the NYTBR, called it "the best of humor....Delightful!" while Cosmopolitan pronounced it "irresistible."

Renamed REMEBRANCE OF DOGS PAST, this fetching collection of 70 disarmingly funny portraits is as fresh and funny as ever. Beginning with an 18th- or 19th-century ancestral portrait, Thierry Poncelet seamlessly paints in a dog's head over the original human subject's. The resulting tour de force is a fantasy that looks uncannily real, the dogs appearing all too human in their military regalia or elaborate gowns. And for a glorious twist, New Yorker humorist Bruce McCall names each dog and offers a brilliant tongue-in-cheek biographical sketch. Thus there's Lord Gristle (black Labrador), proprietor of a vast tabloid chain, with dark memories of rolled-up newspapers; Marie-Claire DuBossy (white poodle), who shocked France's poetry circles by refusing to beg; and Percival Horace Denbeigh (Jack Russell terrier), Britain's foremost military correspondent, with an infallible nose for news.

It's a howl.

About the Author
Thierry Poncelet is a Belgian-born artist and paintings conservator whose dog portraits have earned him international acclaim. His work is exhibited in Paris, London New York, Vienna, and Brussels

Bruce McCall (born 1935) is a Canadian author and illustrator, best known for his frequent contributions to The New Yorker.

Born and raised in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, he was fascinated by comic books and showed an early aptitude for drawing fantastical flying machines, blimps, bulbous-nosed muscle cars and futuristic dioramas.

In his memoir, Thin Ice (1997), McCall admitted that he was never good at physical activity as a boy, but could count on his mother to encourage his creativity. Bruce's father T.C. was imperious and unemotional, and left his alcoholic wife Peg without the attention she needed. Peg and the children tried to strike an attachment to him, but his stormy moods frequently pushed them aside.

Without any serious technical training, McCall began his illustration career drawing cars for Ford Motor Company in Toronto in the 1950s. After several decades in advertising, he sought opportunities elsewhere in the publishing industry.

He went to New York City, and was hired by National Lampoon and made a name for himself as an artist with intelligent and whimsical humor. McCall also spent a brief period writing sketches for Saturday Night Live.

McCall has illustrated magazine covers, regularly appearing in The New Yorker and other magazines. He has been a contributor to the magazine since 1979.

McCall is also a humourist, and has written essays on some of the social ironies of modern life. He writes frequently for the "Shouts & Murmurs" section of The New Yorker.

McCall lives on the Upper West Side of New York near Central Park.

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Review of Bart Simpson's Guide to Life: A Wee Handbook for the Perplexed (Hardcover)

Good advice from the little brat Bart Simpson. There's tons of funny things like Love=Hate unless they really hate. How to get out of doing chores. How to get more money from your parents. lies your parents tell you"If you tell me I promise I won't get mad. It is one of the bestSimpsons books I have ever read! How to make your parents go crazy"Say are we there yet every 10 seconds". Barts dream room, andeven if you don't like bart simpson there's things like Lisa's dream houseHomer's Beauty Secrets and Marge's Beauty Secrets. It also has how to cheat"If you get caught don't say my name". What do parents think?Don't know then read! There is even Zesty Prayers "Now I lay me downto sleep. I pray my bladder doesn't leak. If I should pee before I wake, Ipray the Lord to dry my lake". There's even Nutritional Informationand Ingredients on the back. So give a hoot ask your parents to buy BartSimpson's Guide to Life. If they don't let you yell and scream intill youlose all your breath and pass out on the floor. You won't be missinganything good I'll be here reading the old people's newspaper, so go, NOW!

Product Description
Starved for the whole truth, man?

Take a bite out of this bitsy but beefy package, brimming with flavorized morsels of wit, wisdom and worldly knowledge brought to you by the one and only Bartholomew J. Simpson -- get the hard-knocks facts of life from the guy who's seen it all, heard it all, done it all and denies it all.

(The "J" stands for "Jo-Jo"...)

About the Author

Matt Groening, the creator and executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning series "The Simpsons," the "Life in Hell" cartoon series, and the animated Fox tv series "Futurama", is the man responsible for bringing animation to prime time.

In addition, Groening formed Bongo Comics Group in 1993 and currently serves as publisher of their four comic books -- Simpsons Comics, Itchy & Scratchy Comics, Bartman, and Radioactive Man.

Groening lives in Los Angeles, CA.

www.thesimpsons.com

The Simpsons^TM & © Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.

Futurama^TM & © Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Review of Dave Barry in Cyberspace (Paperback)

Let me start by saying that I love Dave Barry's work -- I've been reading everything he's written since the early-'80's, always with great anticipation.With that said, I regret to report that this book is merely OKAY.Of course it was funny (how could Dave Barry not be?!), but I only found maybe two or three rolling-on-the-ground-laughing parts.So, if you're a fan of his, or if you have an interest in computers, you should definitely read it.Just don't expect as much side-splitting as other reviewers have claimed. For laugh-out-loud-til-you-wet-yourself Dave Barry humor, I recommend any collection of his weekly columns, and also *Dave Barry Slept Here*.



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Review of When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home (Mass Market Paperback)

Erma Bombeck has crafted a glorious travel book that explains just why you should keep your behind firmly planted indoors. Over the course of thebook, she goes to Mass in a church where people go topless (and yes, I meanthe women), goes to Europe with the weirdest bunch of people ever to go ona tour, tackles the hard rolls from hell, and buys the tiniest mobile homein history.

She dryly comments on every weird detail of travellingfurther than five miles, from languages to airplanes to foreign bathroomsto travel snobs to stuffing yourself with food.Oh, and guess the meaningof this if you haven't read the book: "Number One JesusMan."

BTW if you enjoyed this book, scamper off and check out"Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need" and "IfGod Had Meant For Us To Travel". These guys are a bit wackier, butjust as funny.



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Review of Naked (Paperback)

This book is classified as a memoir, and it's the funniest one I've read to date.Growing up Greek in North Carolina couldn't have been easy, but adding to the mix a crazy grandmother and a sibling with a penchant forusing towels as toilet paper makes it that much harder (and funnier, tous).

David was struck with enthusiastic OCD as a child, only to findways to "cure" his tics in college.His stories of life afterschooling include apple-picking and packing, working with jade (not tomention a crazy, hypocritical Christian), and refinishing woodwork with aJew-hating Lithuanian and a somewhat confused black guy.He hitchhikeswith all levels of human decapitation until a rowdy truck driver combsthicket by the roadside looking for him.

Not all of the fifteen storiesare side-splitting funny."I Like Guys" highlights accepting hishomosexual feelings, and an undercurrent of seriousness lines the story. "Ashes" tells of his mother's cancer, and a sense of tragedyseems to sober his usually razor-sharp satirical style.

The last (andtitle) story, "Naked", tells of his experience with a nudistcolony.It's written in more a journal form (the others are written in a'flashback' form) and by the end, you feel strange in your ownclothing.

I definitely plan on recommending this book to my friends.Idon't see how you could live your life without picking up a Sedaris book.



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