Download or read book Bughouse 6 written by and published by Alternative Comics. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piano man down! Slim Watkins checks out behind “bug-juice”, just as Jimmy Watts, tenor sax avatar, has truly achieved sobriety. Could drummer Ralph Rojas have prevented Slim's demise? Maybe, but he's too busy with sexy Clarise, the leggy jazz fan with a penchant for boffing drummers.
Download or read book The Bughouse written by Lesley Milne and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Lesley Milne's second adventure story for young readers. She does not flinch from exploring tough issues, yet she does this with humour, warmth and understanding.
Download or read book Bughouse 5 written by and published by Alternative Comics. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the road again! Jimmy, Bones, Slim and Ralph Rojas take their band of Be-boppin' bugs on the road. Sparks fly at the Fox Theatre in Oaktown, where our boys luck their way into a wild jam session with the McKinley Blues Band, crossing Bop with the electric blues for a historic meeting of musical minds. Set in a 'bug noir' Manhattan of the nineteen-fifties, Bughouse weaves the story of an ensemble of characters who are essentially human beings with bug-like features, as they dance on the edge of the abyss. Steve Lafler brings alive a lost era of jazz and drugs that evokes a range of emotions and experience rarely seen in comic books.
Download or read book Snug House Bug House written by Susan Schade and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six bugs find a tennis ball and turn it into a wonderful house for themselves.
Download or read book Cassell s Dictionary of Slang written by Jonathon Green and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Underworld written by Eric Partridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 2680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, as well as from Britain and America and offers a fascinating and unique study of language. The book provides an invaluable insight into social history, with the British vocabulary dating back to the 16th century and the American to the late 18th century. Each entry comes complete with the approximate date of origin, the etymology for each word, and a note of the milieu in which the expression arose.
Download or read book The Selected Works of Eric Partridge written by Eric Partridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 2733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set reissues important selected works by Eric Partridge, covering the period from 1933 to 1968. Together, the books look at many and diverse aspects of language, focusing in particular on English. Included in the collection are a variety of insightful dictionaries and reference works that showcase some of Partridge’s best work. The books are creative, as well as practical, and will provide enjoyable reading for both scholars and the more general reader, who has an interest in language and linguistics.
Download or read book Bughouse 3 written by and published by Alternative Comics. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Watts and his BugHouse band are the toast of the town, as the red-hot Bebop jazz band takes the stage of the storied Club Savoy. But lookout, sleazy purveyors of the highly addictive substance “bug-juice” flock around Jimmy. In no time, Jimmy takes a slug in a back-alley drug deal gone sour!
Download or read book Bughouse 8 written by and published by Alternative Comics. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julie Watts is the boom-boom bombshell manager of the BugHouse be-bop jazz band. And Julie has some serious blues, mourning the accidental death of Slim Watkins, the beloved, inspired piano player for BugHouse. Compliments of an archaic volume found in a mysterious book shop, Julie takes an other-worldy trip to visit Slim in the great beyond.
Download or read book Guided by Voices written by James Greer and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the fourth-grade teacher in Dayton, Ohio, who created one of the most influential bands of our times. Devoted fans have followed Guided by Voices for decades—and critics around the world have lauded the band’s brain trust, Robert Pollard, as a once-in-a-generation artist. Pollard has been compared by the New York Times to Mozart, Rossini, and Paul McCartney (in the same sentence) and everyone from P. J. Harvey, Radiohead, R.E.M., the Strokes, and U2 has sung his praises and cited his music as an influence. But it all started rather prosaically when Pollard, a fourth-grade teacher in his early thirties, began recording songs with drinking buddies in his basement. In this book, James Greer, an acclaimed music writer and former Spin editor—who also played in the band for two years—provides unparalleled insight and complete access to the workings of Pollard’s muse.
Download or read book An Angel in Sodom written by Jim Elledge and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Gerber was the father of American gay liberation. Born in 1892 in Germany, Henry Gerber was expelled from school as a boy and lost several jobs as a young man because of his homosexual activities. He emigrated to the United States and enlisted in the army for employment. After his release, he explored Chicago's gay subculture: cruising Bughouse Square, getting arrested for "disorderly conduct," and falling in love. He was institutionalized for being gay, branded an "enemy alien" at the end of World War I, and given a choice: to rejoin the army or be imprisoned in a federal penitentiary. Gerber re-enlisted and was sent to Germany in 1920. In Berlin, he discovered a vibrant gay rights movement, which made him vow to advocate for the rights of gay men at home. He founded the Society for Human Rights, the first legally recognized US gay-rights organization, on December 10, 1924. When police caught wind of it, he and two members were arrested. He lost his job, went to court three times, and went bankrupt. Released, he moved to New York, disheartened. Later in life, he joined the DC chapter of the Mattachine Society, a gay-rights advocacy group founded by Harry Hay who had heard of Gerber's group, leading him to found Mattachine. An Angel in Sodom is the first and long overdue biography of the founder of the first US gay rights organization.
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Download or read book Workers Tales written by Michael J. Rosen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of political tales—first published in British workers’ magazines—selected and introduced by acclaimed critic and author Michael Rosen In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, unique tales inspired by traditional literary forms appeared frequently in socialist-leaning British periodicals, such as the Clarion, Labour Leader, and Social Democrat. Based on familiar genres—the fairy tale, fable, allegory, parable, and moral tale—and penned by a range of lesser-known and celebrated authors, including Schalom Asch, Charles Allen Clarke, Frederick James Gould, and William Morris, these stories were meant to entertain readers of all ages—and some challenged the conventional values promoted in children’s literature for the middle class. In Workers’ Tales, acclaimed critic and author Michael Rosen brings together more than forty of the best and most enduring examples of these stories in one beautiful volume. Throughout, the tales in this collection exemplify themes and ideas related to work and the class system, sometimes in wish-fulfilling ways. In “Tom Hickathrift,” a little, poor person gets the better of a gigantic, wealthy one. In “The Man Without a Heart,” a man learns about the value of basic labor after testing out more privileged lives. And in “The Political Economist and the Flowers,” two contrasting gardeners highlight the cold heart of Darwinian competition. Rosen’s informative introduction describes how such tales advocated for contemporary progressive causes and countered the dominant celebration of Britain’s imperial values. The book includes archival illustrations, biographical notes about the writers, and details about the periodicals where the tales first appeared. Provocative and enlightening, Workers’ Tales presents voices of resistance that are more relevant than ever before.
Download or read book Poker Night written by John Vorhaus and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-09-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This smart, accessible guide to basic rules, strategy, and insider secrets shows how to win at poker, at home as well as in the casino and online.
Download or read book Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts Manufactures Professions and Trades written by Arnold James Cooley and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prom Knights written by Vallyn Bernard and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prom Knights follows some of the adventures of a high school junior as he prepares for his junior prom. Everyday life in a small rural area in the Wild West is highlighted with the antics of Bug. This happy-go-lucky young man faces life with a smile and enjoys the loyalty of a close friend. Together they become partners in the rescue of a young lady who, because of a horrible accident, was on the verge of missing one of the most memorable nights of her life. With several hilarious twists in what would normally be a routine process of preparing for the prom, Bug and his friend end up involved in both heartwarming and emotional events that lead to them becoming prom knights.
Download or read book Cooley s Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts Manufactures Professions and Trades Including Medicine Pharmacy and Domestic Economy written by Arnold James Cooley and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 1244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
