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OUT BEYOND FERAL DWELLS... THE ASTRAL ADVICE ANIMAL
The scathing social comedy of "Dr. Strangelove" mixed with the
fairy-tale surrealism of "Animal Farm."
Tabby Cat provides his edgy counsel on this world and the next to
spooks and in-body entities alike, without fear or favor. Must your
next re-birth be so "hit-or-miss"? Does human incarnation have to
be a "sink-or-swim" proposition? Get the low-down for the next time
you go down. Learn the slickest cheat codes and sickest workarounds
for your ultimate thrill ride - the Earth Plane Time-Space
Illusion.
Celebrity Praise for Astral Advice Animal
This is more grim smile than jolly guffaw, but it serves to dull
the insufferable ennui of an otherwise lackluster eternity.
- (Astral Essence of) The Marquis De Sade
Crazy is good; funny is better; Tabby's writing is both; his
message is neither.
- (Astral Essence of) Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Clearly Tabby Cat is a metaphor for something but I can't begin to
imagine what that might be.
- (Astral Essence of) Jorge Luis Borges
When Lorenzo sees these pics I'm going to be out on my ass.
- (Astral Essence of) Michelangelo Buonarroti
While alive, I opined that a serious and good philosophical work
could be written consisting entirely of jokes. But I never dreamed
some bonehead would actually take me up on it.
-(Astral Essence of) Ludwig Wittgenstein
Four Noble Truths, v. 2.0: Suffering? Ignorance Solution? Tabby
- (Astral Essence of) Prince Siddhartha of the Shakya Clan
An inspirational piece by famed author Christopher Trimarco. Each
page will put a smile on your face.
Craft Beer Sucks is a humorous poke at the so called craft beer
movement
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Mondegreen
(Paperback)
Nick Gurley; Nik V. Markevicius
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Discovery Miles 2 650
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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"A Jailbird's-eye View of Tent City" draws openly from an 18 month
stay in county jail. This tale is a lighthearted, comic spoof of
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Tent City located in Phoenix, Arizona. It
contains exploits and anecdotes navigating the perilous and often
absurd ins and outs of a detention center which has been a
lightning rod for controversy. A Jailbird's-eye View of Tent City
features affable, optimistic schemer, Janie Doughy. At 48, Doughy
finds herself confined to indoor lockup where she waits six months
for a judge to decide her fate. Here she befriends Maria; a
prostitute, who is the maternal, interfering kind with a lifetime
habit of butting into other people's business. Keisha is Doughys'
poker partner who could do more with the raising of an eyebrow than
Moses could do with the Ten Commandments. Angel has a glass-eye and
a heart of marble, yet Doughy finds herself unaccountably attracted
to her. Doughy is finally sentenced to one year in Tent City.
Refusing to work in the laundry without Hazmat certification,
Doughy is manhandled and tossed into the hole. Humbled by
isolation, she returns to the tents only to be hit in the head with
a pink sock full of combination locks (Slock) for sitting at the
wrong table at chow. Unmoved by unpleasantness, Doughy dreams up a
scheme to get cigarettes into the encampment to help shore up her
gambling problem. "A Jailbird's-eye View of Tent City" is a feel
good tale that ends in heavenly redemption, while offering: some
fights, plenty of lunatics, oodles of racial tension, pink undies,
green bologna and a women's chain gang. Doughy's contrite manner,
delusional optimism, perseverance and a surrounding cast of
endearing convicts makes this romp behind razor-wire more comic
than corrective.
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