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

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...

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.

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...

We aren't always aware of the impact our actions have on others. When we brushed against an arm on the subway, did we send electricity up his spine? When we broke it off after three months, did we scar her for life? When we opened the door for the elderly man, did we remind him that he wasn't alone? The truth is that each of us live on an island, skimming rocks into the ocean. We have no idea whether those ripples we create become beauty or chaos. And when the doorbell rings and we find an...

Poetry. In Fat Girl, Jessie Carty asks us to strip and stand naked in front of a mirror. These poems are our own reflection. Bittersweet in nature, they are self-perception. They size us up and tell the truth: that man or woman, we all struggle to feel at home in our own skins.The poems of Fat Girl explore one woman's life-long struggle with weight, social (mis)perception, and self-worth.Says Scott Owens, author of The Fractured World:"Hunger, desire, overindulgence...

"Life wants you dead, and this book wants to be READ! Ha ha I love being a comedian.” —Patton Oswalt"Truly hilarious!" —Jack Handey, author of Deep ThoughtsFear!!! Scary, right? But what if the only thing we shouldn't fear is fear itself?In this era of economic turmoil, climate catastrophe, and cliques of cool teens just waiting to make fun of your shoes, we live in a heightened state of fear. We'r...