Download or read book Dumbheart Stupidface written by Cooper Wilhelm and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Good love stories aren't interesting to read about. Thankfully, DUMBHEART/STUPIDFACE provides a wonderful reprieve; Wilhelm writes the brutal truths of what it means to love someone with a detached ferocity generally observed in nature, as when a tiger devours a deer. And it is as exciting to watch." -Bijan Stephen

Download or read book Dumbheart written by Darby Conley and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roommates Rob Wilco, Satchel Pooch, and Bucky B. Katt, the trio from the "Get Fuzzy" strip, return to entertain readers with another collection of their antics.

Download or read book Dumbheart A Get Fuzzy Collection written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bucky B. Katt is leading the charge of the Highlands Kittyscouts. Bolstered by his roommates Rob Wilco (decked out in a borrowed hotel bathrobe and a Burger King crown) and Satchel Pooch (protected by a colander helmet), the trio from Get Fuzzy are ready to entertain their readers with another collection of their antics. Bucky's crazy schemes and snarky attitude play off the good hearted Satchel and the exasperated Rob to endless comic results.

Download or read book Dumb 1 and 2 written by Georgia Webber and published by Retrofit Comics. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dumb is a true comic series about Georgia Webber's voicelessness due to injury in 2012, and the subsequent months of recovery. It is also acollection of audio pieces, an interview project, a video collage, a documentation experiment, and a filter through which to examine identity, physiology, spirituality, intimacy, sociology, privilege, justice, and more. The first two parts of Dumb are included in this compilation and introduce Georgia in her natural vocally abundant state: working, socializing, volunteering at a bike co-op, going out, all as the pain (represented by stars) interferes more and more. A diagnosis is given, but she is left with little more. Then the aftermath of diagnosis is shown, the gathering of information, and the trauma of change. An internal battle is waged in images on the page. Includes introductions written by Madeleine Palmer, Georgia's voice coach, and by Natalie Zina Walschots, a music writer specializing in metal, as well as "Aftermath" and "Splitting."

Download or read book Dumb written by Georgia Webber and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part memoir, part medical cautionary tale, Dumb tells the story of how an urban twentysomething copes with the everyday challenges that come with voicelessness. Webber adroitly uses the comics medium to convey the practical hurdles she faced as well as the fear and dread that accompanied her increasingly lonely journey to regain her life. Her raw cartooning style, occasionally devolving into chaotic scribbles, splotches of ink, and overlapping montages, perfectly captures her frustration and anxiety. But her ordeal ultimately becomes a hopeful story. Throughout, she learns to lean on the support of her close friends, finds self-expression in creating comics, and comes to understand and appreciate how deeply her voice and identity are intertwined.

Download or read book You Are Now Less Dumb written by David McRaney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the bestselling You Are Not So Smart shares more discoveries about self-delusion and irrational thinking, and gives readers a fighting chance at outsmarting their not-so-smart brains David McRaney’s first book, You Are Not So Smart, evolved from his wildly popular blog of the same name. A mix of popular psychology and trivia, McRaney’s insights have struck a chord with thousands, and his blog--and now podcasts and videos--have become an Internet phenomenon. Like You Are Not So Smart, You Are Now Less Dumb is grounded in the idea that we all believe ourselves to be objective observers of reality--except we’re not. But that’s okay, because our delusions keep us sane. Expanding on this premise, McRaney provides eye-opening analyses of fifteen more ways we fool ourselves every day, including: The Misattribution of Arousal (Environmental factors have a greater affect on our emotional arousal than the person right in front of us) Sunk Cost Fallacy (We will engage in something we don’t enjoy just to make the time or money already invested “worth it”) Deindividuation (Despite our best intentions, we practically disappear when subsumed by a mob mentality) McRaney also reveals the true price of happiness, why Benjamin Franklin was such a badass, and how to avoid falling for our own lies. This smart and highly entertaining book will be wowing readers for years to come.

Download or read book Intelligent Fools written by Chris Miller and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They're all around us--in our workplaces, in our churches, and around our dinner tables. Intelligent people who act foolishly and hurt those around them. Smart people who make dumb choices.They may be people who lie, drink too much, love to talk about themselves, explode in anger, or won't listen to anyone. They are people you love but may not wish to be around. Intelligent fools. Is there any hope for them? For us?Nearly 3,000 years ago, a wise old king wrote about these intelligent fools, describing them perfectly in all their hurtful and irritating ways. But he didn't stop there. He offered hope: a way to break free from the patterns that do damage both to the fool and to those who love them. In this book, Intelligent Fools: Smart People, Dumb Choices, we dig into the writings of King Solomon as he describes the typical foolishness of everyday people. We also examine what he says about how we can change our foolish ways and become men and women of wisdom. Intelligent Fools is a challenging look at the dumb stuff we do and the hope that brings life, peace, and love.

Download or read book True to the Earth written by Kadmus and published by Ritona. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True to the Earth is the first English work to offer a robust explanation of the power of pagan cosmologies and their relevance for modern environmental, political, and social crises.

Download or read book Pax Americana written by Kurt Baumeister and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2034: Evangelical secret agents, fast food moguls, the voice of God in computer software, violence in the Bermuda Triangle! George W. Bush's foreign policy vindicated by a quick victory in Iraq, lucrative invasions of Egypt and Syria followed, bringing unparalleled prosperity to America and setting off thirty years of right-wing rule. But when a war in Iran goes bad--and the resulting cover-up goes worse--the democrats reclaim the presidency. This is the time of Pax Americana and its zealous anti-hero, government agent Tuck Squires. Reading the ironic silences between the lines of the thriller, and roaring like a jet engine, Pax Americana is a sacrilegious, conspiratorial monster; like a literary dogfight between Martin Amis and Robert Anton Wilson, loaded with prophecy, Baumeister's debut is an exorcism and an antidote for our era. 'Like an episode of Archer written by Kurt Vonnegut, Baumeister takes us into a hilarious and high-velocity world of espionage and global politics in this send-up of god, country, and the possibility of doing good in a world gone bad. It's fast-paced fun, watch out for paper cuts as the pages fly by.' -Shya Scanlon 'If there is to be an American peace, it's certainly not going to come on the pages of this lit match of a novel. Kurt Baumeister has fashioned exactly the old school pre- and post-Bond techno x-travaganza everyone bored with explorations of the louvre has been waiting for. Pax Americana is both dark satire and deeply satisfying, an adrenaline rush that runs through suspect politics, spirituality software, and the sacredly profane. It's a blast. Buy it now.' -Sean Beaudoin

Download or read book Threshold Songs written by Peter Gizzi and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About Threshold Songs, the voices in these poems perform at the interior thresholds encountered each day, where we negotiate the unfathomable proximities of knowing and not knowing, the gulf of seeing and feeling, the uncanny relation of grief to joy, and the borderless nature of selfhood and tradition. Both conceptual and haunted, these poems explore the asymmetry of the body’s chemistry and its effects on expression and form. The poems in Threshold Songs tune us to the microtonal music of speaking and being spoken. Check for the online reader’s companion at http://petergizzi.site.wesleyan.edu.

Download or read book Archeophonics written by Peter Gizzi and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soulful and intricate lyrics make this Gizzi's strongest book to date Archeophonics is the first collection of new work from the poet Peter Gizzi in five years. Archeophonics, defined as the archeology of lost sound, is one way of understanding the role and the task of poetry: to recover the buried sounds and shapes of languages in the tradition of the art, and the multitude of private connections that lie undisclosed in one's emotional memory. The book takes seriously the opening epigraph by the late great James Schuyler: "poetry, like music, is not just song." It recognizes that the poem is not a decorative art object but a means of organizing the world, in the words of anthropologist Clifford Geertz, "into transient examples of shaped behavior." Archeophonics is a series of discrete poems that are linked by repeated phrases and words, and its themes and nothing less than joy, outrage, loss, transhistorical thought, and day-to-day life. It is a private book of public and civic concerns.

Download or read book The Outernationale written by Peter Gizzi and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A luminous new work for the 21st century

Download or read book If You Died Tomorrow I Would Eat Your Corpse written by Wrath James White and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems of the erotic, the romantic, the violent, and the grotesque.

Download or read book Bone Confetti written by Muriel Leung and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Asian American Studies. In BONE CONFETTI, there are two types of survivors at the end of the world--lovers and ghosts who die, are revived, and die again. Each death and resurrection carves its way into the landscape of a wrecked city where skies are flocked by molten birds and trees grow in shades of ash. The same confetti floats between funeral and parade, wedding and hell. When all that is left is the terrible residue of memory, lovers and ghosts try their best to make do. They scale the horizon, collecting debris wherever they go in the attempt to fashion a new sense of humanity. BONE CONFETTI houses something else: an activity of mourning. The book does this in place of the other things it could have done. Or housed. It struck the bone of my own heart. It made the words into a bell. And the bell made me stop what I was doing, just as certain events or thoughts or scenes do, and orient to that unexpected, powerful sound. Leung is this kind of writer, whose book makes you want to come up with a new language to describe what a book could be, could feel like, to read. I am grateful for the chance to encounter her work at this time, in this part of the real year.--Bhanu Kapil

Download or read book Being Pagan written by Rhyd Wildermuth and published by Ritona. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of uncertainty, political upheaval, climate change, and endless consumerism, in alienated societies bereft of meaning and connection to nature or community, what does being Pagan mean? From druid, theorist, and writer Rhyd Wildermuth comes Being Pagan, a guide to re-enchant your world. Exploring the meaning of Pagan connection-to time, to land, to body, to nature, and to the Other-through history, personal experiences, and myth, Wildermuth offers simple yet profound guidance for anyone searching for a deeper way to live.

Download or read book Cartoons in the Suicide Forest written by Leza Cantoral and published by Bizarro Pulp Press. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lyrical and perverse, like a prostitute on acid in a poetry slam, this collection of the dark, erotic, and bizarre stories flirt with the heroin fever dreams of William Burroughs and the horrific surrealism of Charlee Jacobs." -- Provided by publisher.

Download or read book The Return of the Dead written by Claude Lecouteux and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-07-24 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the ghost stories of pagan times reveal the seamless union existing between the world of the living and the afterlife • Demonstrates how Medieval Christianity transformed the more corporeal ghost encountered in pagan cultures with the disembodied form known today • Explains how the returning dead were once viewed as either troublemakers or guarantors of the social order The impermeable border the modern world sees existing between the world of the living and the afterlife was not visible to our ancestors. The dead could--and did--cross back and forth at will. The pagan mind had no fear of death, but some of the dead were definitely to be dreaded: those who failed to go peacefully into the afterlife but remained on this side in order to right a wrong that had befallen them personally or to ensure that the law promoted by the ancestors was being respected. But these dead individuals were a far cry from the amorphous ectoplasm that is featured in modern ghost stories. These earlier visitors from beyond the grave--known as revenants--slept, ate, and fought like men, even when, like Klaufi of the Svarfdaela Saga, they carried their heads in their arms. Revenants were part of the ancestor worship prevalent in the pagan world and still practiced in indigenous cultures such as the Fang and Kota of equatorial Africa, among others. The Church, eager to supplant this familial faith with its own, engineered the transformation of the corporeal revenant into the disembodied ghost of modern times, which could then be easily discounted as a figment of the imagination or the work of the devil. The sanctified grounds of the church cemetery replaced the burial mounds on the family farm, where the ancestors remained as an integral part of the living community. This exile to the formal graveyard, ironically enough, has contributed to the great loss of the sacred that characterizes the modern world.