The story is about a father named Hugo Rivera who decides to face the challenges in life by joining the United States Navy after graduating from a private high school in California. He then faces... More > more challenges in his fatherhood and never backs down by proving that his two autistic children can grow up to become doctors.
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I'll explain this. Why not? And Why? Art explains itself, doesn’t it? Oh, Who cares why. In any case, in picture form this book tells a very small piece of a very odd story. My story. Call... More > ‘em … excerpts from the mind of a self proclaimed genius, (half of the time half mad?... khhm) created in-between while he writes fiction, literature, music, and survives. You know the story, well, their version anyway. Or do you? It seems, really though, that I just couldn’t let them sit without sharing them. Just couldn’t. Makes sense, don’t it? Each piece tells a little story of it’s own: Maybe a state of mind; maybe an observation of others or of self; and maybe, just maybe what they reflect is far too esoteric and all-be-it bizarre to justify with any explanation what-so-ever. Oh, you decide.< Less
He says: "I'll explain this. Why not? And Why? Art explains itself, doesn’t it? Oh, Who cares why. In any case, in picture form this book tells a very small piece of a very odd story. My... More > story. Call ‘em … excerpts from the mind of a self proclaimed genius, (half of the time half mad? ... khhm) created in-between while he writes fiction, literature, music, and survives. You know the story, well, their version anyway. Or do you? It seems, really though, that I just couldn’t let them sit without sharing them. Just couldn’t. Makes sense, don’t it? Each piece tells a little story of it’s own: Maybe a state of mind; maybe an observation of others or of self; and maybe, just maybe what they reflect is far too esoteric and all-be-it bizarre to justify with any explanation what-so-ever. Oh, you decide.< Less
This is a 23 page coffee table book consisting of pictures of a number of the 3-5,000 "Eccentric Millionaire" Stanley Marsh III "Art Signs" installed around Amarillo, Texas,... More > during the 1990's. Many of the signs, including all of the graphic arts signs, were painted by Amarillo artist Mikie Angelino, a prolific artist who has painted, among other things, all of the carousel horses at the Texas State Fair.< Less
Text-only edition of a memoir of Stephen Warde Anderson, self-taught Midwestern outsider/folk artist featuring commentary on his career, his background, his inspirations, and his eccentric lifestyle.
Deluxe, illustrated edition of a brief, quirky memoir of Stephen Warde Anderson, self-taught Midwestern outsider/folk artist featuring commentary on his career, his background, his inspirations, and... More > his eccentric lifestyle. Included are hundreds of images of paintings executed in the past twenty-five years.< Less
Illustrated ebook edition of a brief, quirky memoir of Stephen Warde Anderson, self-taught Midwestern outsider/folk artist featuring commentary on his career, his background, his inspirations, and... More > his eccentric lifestyle. Included are hundreds of images of paintings executed in the past twenty-five years.< Less
In these wide-ranging lyrical essays, Anita Mathias writes, in lush, lovely prose, of her naughty Catholic childhood in Jamshedpur, India; her large, eccentric family in Mangalore, a sea-coast town... More > converted by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century; her rebellion and atheism as a teenager in her Himalayan boarding school, run by German missionary nuns, St. Mary's Convent, Nainital; and her abrupt religious conversion after which she entered Mother Teresa's convent in Calcutta as a novice. Later rich, elegant essays explore the dualities of her life as a writer, mother, and Christian in the United States-- Domesticity and Art, Writing and Prayer, and the experience of being "an alien and stranger" as an immigrant in America, sensing the need for roots.< Less
In 47 one-of-a-kind diagrams, eccentric visionary Professor Oddfellow presents his offbeat "Forgotten Wisdom." Entries include:
• The Depths of Madness
• Gestation of an... More > Idea
• The Three Dimensional Scale of Amusement
• How to Call a Bluff
• Essay Writing: The Sewage Pipe Model
• Rejected Gaming Dice
• How to Read a Barcode
This book makes a perfect gift for wordplay enthusiasts, armchair linguists, intellectuals, pseudo-intellectuals, or anyone with a sly sense of humor.< Less
