The pooetry chapbook Doodooality: Shots Fired from Uranus is about The Fecalarity, an event where human excrement becomes sentient. Fed up with the hubris of mankind, the sophont turds resettle in Uranus. The work of San Francisco karaoke metal band NypSlyp, Doodooality is constructed as a parody of a concept metal album.Doodooality: Shots Fired from Uranus

The bestselling, wonderfully unconventional, “warmly conspiratorial…seriously good” (The New York Times) memoir-in-letters from the Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award–winning actress that has received fabulous and wide praise. “There is no one else quite like Mary-Louise Parker…Funny, heartbreaking and profound” (ELLE).An extraordinary literary memoir, Dear Mr. You renders the singular arc of a woman’s life through letters Mary-Louise Par...

WHAT THE HECK IS AN INTERNET MEME?Meme (pronounced meem): An idea, belief or element of social behavior spread that is transmitted from one person or group of people to another.This word was coined in the '70s by Richard Dawkins, the atheist godman worshipped by neckbeards everywhere.Simply put, Internet memes are memes that spread on the Internet through social networking sites, blogs, email, news sources, and so on. In the real world they're calle...

Midori’s confession was the final push Akiteru needed to work out his feelings. But all that’s gotta wait, since he’s still in the middle of the class trip! Mashiro goes on offense and invites Akiteru on a date to Tenchido Eternaland, a Kyoto theme park. Iroha’s mother greets them with open arms...but wait, how’d Iroha end up at the park too? Add Iroha’s peskiness Akiteru’s list of problems, just when he was hoping he could catch a break. Aren’t theme parks supposed to be fun?!

Focusing on the most popular style of manga, Shoujo Basics teaches readers how to draw all the trademark characteristics of shoujo characters; from lessons on glimmering eyes, flowing hair, and dramatic expressions to more basic elements such as the body, face, and poses, this book covers everything readers need to go from shoujo fans to shoujo artists. After an introduction to these elements, readers will have a chance to follow along Hart's in-depth step-by-steps, and will even be invite...

Meet Pluto Rocket, a friendly alien, and Joe Pidge, a wise-cracking pigeon, in the first book of this hilarious new early graphic novel series, for fans of Narwhal and Jelly and Pizza and Taco!Joe Pidge, not just a pigeon but also the stylish king of the neighborhood, is bobbing his way down the street one day when, all of a sudden, Pluto Rocket enters the scene. It turns out, Pluto is from another planet, and is disguising herself for her secret mission — to find ...

Welcome to Mark Leyner's America, where you can order gallium arsenide sushi at a roadside diner, get loaded on a cocktail of growth hormones and anabolic steroids, and support your habit by appearing on TV game shows. Welcome to a wildly post-Einsteinian fictional universe where the locals include a speech pathologist with a waterbug fetish, a kamikaze airline pilot, and the lead singer for Brazil's most notoriously nihilistic samba band.

**“Like her music, Marina's written work is laced with brilliant and bold wordplay throughout.” —CosmopolitanFor the first time, platinum-certified singer-songwriter Marina shares her singular observations of the human heart through poetry; this collection is essential**Marina’s talent for powerful, evocative song lyrics finds a new outlet in her poetry. Each poem resonates with the same creative melodies and emotional depth that have made her an artistic sensation. Hailed ...

An affectionate look at the strange, charming, tortured and often nonsensical English, known as Japlish.On a pencil-case - "Spanking! By the Sea!"Outside an adult video shop in Tokyo - "IF EASY TAKE A FENCE PLEASE DISPER"The owners’ manual of a Japanese motorcycle recommends - "HORN—BUTTON: tootle melodiously at the dog who shall sport in roadway. If he continue, tootle him with vigor."On a T-shirt - "Keep your period to yourself"Hilarious!

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This hilarious graphic guide to Japan is packed with colorful anecdotes, illustrations and even a few helpful pointers!Well, do you want to know how to be a Japanese delinquent, read palms, or teach English? Want to find out the secrets of great tea-ceremony masters, sushi chefs, or successful politicians? Or how about grasping the easy logic behind those apparently indecipherable Japanese characters?These essential questions that more authoritative guidebo...

For the first time, platinum-certified singer-songwriter Marina shares her singular observations of the human heart through poetry; this collection is essential.Marina’s talent for powerful, evocative song lyrics finds a new outlet in her poetry. Each poem resonates with the same creative melodies and emotional depth that have made her an artistic sensation. Hailed by The New York Times for 'redefining songs about coming of age, and the aftermath, with bluntness an...