The Legend of Bigfart

The Legend of Bigfart
Author: Pat Pollari
Publisher: Skylark
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1996
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780553484076

Deep in the woods of Camp Winnapuke lifes Bigfart, the smelliest, skankiest monster who ever lived. And Jerry Tile is about to meet him.

The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium

The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium
Author: Mark Dery
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0802196128

A wide-ranging collection of essays on millennial American culture that “marshals a vast pop vocabulary with easy wit” (The New York Times Book Review). From the far left to the far right, on talk radio and the op-ed page, more and more Americans believe that the social fabric is unraveling. Celebrity worship and media frenzy, suicidal cultists and heavily armed secessionists: modern life seems to have become a “pyrotechnic insanitarium,” Mark Dery says, borrowing a turn-of-the-century name for Coney Island. Dery elucidates the meaning to our madness, deconstructing American culture from mainstream forces like Disney and Nike to fringe phenomena like the Unabomber and alien invaders. Our millennial angst, he argues, is a product of a pervasive cultural anxiety—a combination of the social and economic upheaval wrought by global capitalism and the paranoia fanned by media sensationalism. The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium is a theme-park ride through the extremes of American culture of which The Atlantic has written, “Mark Dery confirms once again what writers and thinkers as disparate as Nathanael West, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sigmund Freud, and Oliver Sacks have already shown us: the best place to explore the human condition is at its outer margins, its pathological extremes.” “Dery is the kind of critic who just might give conspiracy theory a good name.” —Wired

Who Cut the Cheese?

Who Cut the Cheese?
Author: Jim Dawson
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2011-01-26
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0307778789

We've told you HOW TO SHIT IN THE WOODS. We've taken you UP SHIT CREEK. Now, we dare to ask the eternal question...WHO CUT THE CHEESE? Which is to say, what exactly is a fart? Why do we do it? Why do we hide it when we do it? And why do we find farts so darn funny? A cut above anything else on the subject, this book really lets go and tells all, getting to the bottom of these mysteries. Author Jim sniffs out a load of historical and scientific fart tales, then offers the kind of fun facts you'll be dying to let slip at social occasions, in chapters like "Fart Facts That Aren't Just Hot Air," "Gone with the Wind" (on famous movie farts), and "Le Petomane & the Art of the Fart" (on the most famous windbag in history). From fact to fiction to frivolous flatulence, this book is unquestionably a ripping good read.

The Legend of Bigfart

The Legend of Bigfart
Author: Pat Pollari
Publisher:
Total Pages: 119
Release: 1996
Genre: Camps
ISBN: 9780553505580

Deep in the woods of Camp Winnapuke lives Bigfart, the smelliest, skankiest, most fartatious monster who ever lived. Each summer he strikes one camper with an explosion of such magnitude that even the strongest have been known to go insane from the stench.

Culture's Vanities

Culture's Vanities
Author: David Steigerwald
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780742511972

Americans want it both ways. They are committed to cultural diversity, yet demand an endless variety of cheap consumer goods from a global system that destroys distinct ways of life. In this groundbreaking work, David Steigerwald argues that Americans have papered over this paradox by embracing the rhetoric of diversity and multiculturalism, which hides the extent to which they have accepted homogenized ways of working and living.

Popular Modernity in America

Popular Modernity in America
Author: Michael Thomas Carroll
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2000-09-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780791447147

Examines a wide variety of cultural and technological phenomena that have helped shape American popular culture over the last 150 years.

The Legend Of The Secret Saga

The Legend Of The Secret Saga
Author: Estee Shoesmyth
Publisher: Fayshoneshire Limited
Total Pages: 1549
Release: 2023-08-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

Over twenty years in the writing, the three books in The Legend of The Secret Saga series evolved to be an fascinating magical story unlike any other, as they poetically weave together a strange epic tale. THE AUTHOR, Estee Shoesmyth, is a tangible figment of her own unbridled paradoxical imagination and the fantasy fiction pseudonym of eclectic American artist, Suzanne T. Dietz. The Legend Of The Secret Saga is the complete epic trilogy in one colorful volume. There is no other story like it in The Real World! The fantastical epic tale opens in Book One, which is When Begin Began. Celestial Scribe, Angel Daria pens the following words: "To Whom It May Concern: When this immense historical accounting commenced, I surely did not anticipate that the nature of this story would ever veer off the straight and narrow path. Instead, it proceeded to travel along the strangest winding ways. And so, I followed it most dutifully — with my pen in hand. Once upon a time, an anonymous philosopher on The Ultimate Earth aptly intellectualized, 'There are always three sides to every story: your side, the other side, and the truth.' The story presented to you here may seem like nothing more than a collection of my own fantastical delusions. Surely, it could not be that which I, myself, have ever witnessed! In that case, it would certainly not make it to be truth. However, it is ... by my best accounting ... the strange but true enough telling of a deliberately long-lost story from somewhere far out on the other side of Who-Knows-Where." That's just the beginning! In Book Two, The Murky Middle, the story dims to very, very dark with the introduction of a terribly wicked magician's sorcery. Through magic, he enters into a spirit world and adamantly decided to stay there. From that secret domain he meets another and the two, in cahoots, do some deliberately evil damage that stretches out from that invisible place right into the unsuspecting folks who live day to day in The Real World. Those folks do not stand a chance to escape being affected by the magician's insidious determination to capture them all. Eventually, Adam and Eve are reincarnated into The Real World on a specific mission, years beyond the peak of that magician's vicious reign. By then, the worse had evidently devolved into the worst that ultimately leads through to Book Three, The End Of The End. This story is utterly fascinating. Its twisting and turning through that which may be somewhat recognizable is more tangled up into the fantastical that is addictive to read onward to find out what happens next. All throughout there is mystery, magic, love, hate, obsessiveness, rejection, maliciousness, brilliance, stupidity, sickness, healing, forgiveness, revenge, romance, weirdness, wonderment, heavy heartedness, humor, life, death, and reincarnation. All along, there is that concept of eternity being a time lasting for Forever. Which, according to all reports in The Real World, Forever is a long, long time. The Legend Of The Secret Saga is the complete epic trilogy in one colorful volume. There is no other story like it in The Real World. Not from When Begin Began, throughout The Murky Middle, and all the way to The End Of The End. It is a story that is a Fairytale and a Fantasy. Magical and Mythical. Poetic and Artistic. The Legend Of The Secret Saga is fantastical and not as expected it might be!

Mucous Mansion

Mucous Mansion
Author: Pat Pollari
Publisher: Skylark
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1996
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780553484083

Seth and his cousins have to spend the night in their dead great uncle Elmont's creepy place. Whoever could stand the stench without blowing chunks would earn the Elmont fortune.

Pig Breath

Pig Breath
Author: Pat Pollari
Publisher: Skylark
Total Pages: 130
Release: 1996
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780553484151

The Great Puke-off

The Great Puke-off
Author: Pat Pollari
Publisher: Skylark
Total Pages: 134
Release: 1996
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780553484069

The Chapman twins start a gross-out war with Mark and his friends in the school cafeteria.