Matthew Diffee
Ever wonder what the thousands of cartoons that get rejected from the New Yorker look like? Well, let me tell you – tasteless, obscene, vulgar and wickedly accurate in a totally non-pc way. Featuring some of the best and brightest to grace the pages of the New Yorker, …
Personal Ads from the London Review of Books
Oh dear lord, I’m amazed the Brits manage to mate at all if this is what is out there. These real, honest and often completely horrifying ads have appeared in the LRoB.
…It takes a real man to wear a dress. It
Björn Töroque
We saw the transcendent movie Air Guitar Nation at this year’s Madison film festival. Despite the International Air Guitar Championships existing for over a decade, an American had never competed. The makers of Air Guitar Nation follow the first two American contenders – C-diddy (the Asian fury) and …
Your Disgusting Head and Giraffes? Giraffes! The Haggis-on-Whey World of Unbelievable Brilliance
Written by Dr. Dorris Haggis-On-Whey and her husband Benny, the Haggis-On-Whey World of Unbelievable Brilliance book series will boggle your mind. Boggle boggle boggle. Just like that. Have you ever wanted to know where giraffes came from? Why, …
Terry Pratchett
Pratchett’s new book in the Tiffany Aching series does not fail to amuse. Definitely built on the first two books (A Hat Full of Sky and The Wee Free Men) the story continues Tiffany’s story as she studies to be a full-fledged witch. Various Nac MacFeegles …
Berkeley Breathed
As a refreshingly amusing and light read, I have been plugging away through a bunch of collections of Berk Breathed’s comics. I’m amazed at what an excellent barometer of popular culture and politics Breathed’s (the creator of Opus and Bloom County) comics are. In particular, the Penguin Dreams …
John Waters
…“Why I Love Christmas”By December I’m deep in Xmas psychosis, and only then do I allow myself the luxury of daydreaming my favorite childhood memory: dashing through the snow, laughing all the way (ha-ha-ha) to Grandma’s house to find that the fully decorated tree has fallen over and
Voltaire
…The Glue Gun: If you have never used a glue gun before, then I am honored to introduce to you a tool that is going to make you Gother than you could ever imagine. Why, you ask? Well, I have been using glue guns for nearly twenty years now
ayun halliday
It took me over half the book to realize why halliday’s voice was so familiar. I realized, with a start, that I regularly read her column in Bust magazine about her life in NY with small, mouthy children. Job Hopper is definitely pre Inky and Milo (her kids). …
The Beard and Moustache Championships – The First Official Book (with entry form!)
A short but amusing tome with a collection of photos of past international beard and moustache championship winners. Everything form little clarkie moustaches and van dyke beards, to multi-tentacled freestyle beards and foot wide mutton chop whiskers. …
Shel Silverstein
I idly picked up this Shel Silverstein collection while wandering through a used bookstore the other day and gave it a flip. Oh my. This is NOT your usual Silverstein wacky, quirky drawings. Actually, they are. They just have a lot more nudity and swear words. With his …
Sidney Rothman
When Sidney Rothman, head writer for Letterman, is fired he decides to take some time off. After 10 years of frantically being “on” in the hyper-alert city of L.A., Rothman decides to go to the only place he ever remembers feeling relaxed in his life – Florida. So, …
Edited by Alan Graham and Bonnie Burton
“Race and gender relations have come a long way in this country. When Condaleeza Rice was a young girl, who would’ve thought she would one day grow up to be a white man?” – J Dorchen
To tell the truth, I rarely read …
Frank Warren
This new book highlights the postcard collection of PostSecret (http://postsecret.blogspot.com/). Back in 2003, Warren passed out 3000 blank postcards addressed to him. He asked people to decorate them and write a secret on them, then send them to him. Thousands of cards were sent – many …
Scott Adams
I love this book. It was one of my saving graces while working for The Evil Company. Adams takes the view that most people are weasels. You can either be the victim of weasels, or become a weasel yourself. Illustrated with numerous Dilbert cartoon and real letters sent …
Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D.
This strange combo of a TV writer and a ER medical doctor came up with their “ticket to fame” – a book filled with questions “You’d only ask a doctor after your third martini.” Goldberg and Leyner answer a slew of questions – from …
