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ISBN:
Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Author: Hobo LeeThere's Something about a Train #4
Author: Hobo LeePublisher: Microcosm Publishing
ISBN: 9781621067917
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
If you've seen the movie Catching Out, then you've met Lee, who starting in the late 80s put out a biannual cut-and-paste zine offering stories, pictures, news clippings, adventures, lingo, and advice from railyards and boxcars and squats around the world.
Xerography Debt
Author: Davida G. BreierPublisher:
ISBN: 9781621061052
Category : Letters to the editor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Xerography Debt might be best summarized as an obsession for all involved, none of which are likely to be as wealthy as the preserved zine king depicted on the cover. Billy da Bling Bunny Roberts recently said "It's the glue that holds the zine community together." Maintaining three issues per year, the 38th issue of Xerography Debt is still the same ol' charming personality, allowing a hand-picked cast of contributors to wax philosophical about the zines they love. In an age of blogs and tweets, Xerography Debt is a beautiful, earnest anachronism, a publication that seems to come from a different era, but is firmly entrenched in the now.
Rolling Nowhere
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781301453290
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Hopping a freight in the St. Louis rail yards, Ted Conover0́4winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award0́4embarks on his dream trip, traveling the rails with "the knights of the road." Equipped with rummage store clothing, a bedroll, and his notebooks, Conover immerses himself in the peculiar culture of the hobo, where handshakes and intoductions are foreign, but where everyone knows where the Sally (Salvation Army) and the Willy (Goodwill) are. Along the way he encounters unexpected charity (a former cop goes out of his way to offer Conover a dollar) and indignities (what do you do when there are no public bathrooms?) and learns how to survive on the road.But above all, Conover gets to know the men and women who, for one reason or another, live this life. There's Lonny, who accepts that there are some towns he can't enter before dark because he's black, and Pistol Pete, a cowboy who claims his son is a doctor and his daughter a ballerina, and Sheba Sheila Sheils, who's built herself a house out of old tires. By turns resourceful and desperate, generous and mistrusting, independent and communal, philosophical and profoundly cynical, the tramps Conover meets show him a segment of humanity outside society, neither wholly romantic nor wholly tragic, and very much like the rest of us.
Hopping Freight Trains in America
Author: Duffy LittlejohnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A charming mix of how-to, RR love and operation. Short of the "bible," Armstong's The Railroad--What It Is..., this is the best work on the history, development, use and function of track, rolling stock, signals that we've found outside the textbooks. Jargon is explained (including a 45 p. glossary). Fine, fun, informative book. Published by Sand River Press, 1319 14th Street, Los Osos, CA 93402. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Hobo Sapien
Author: Wayne IversonPublisher: Robert Reed Publishers
ISBN: 9781934759431
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Garrison Keillor meets Jack Kerouac meets Mahatma Gandhi in this wry, roadwise scripture. Hobo Sapien is a series of freight train parables born out of the author's twelve-plus years riding freight trains, combined with lessons learned in his seven-year stint as a Self-Realization Fellowship monk, plus the added bonus of fascinating railroad history. Non-fiction readers buy books to learn something, for reference, or to be entertained. Hobo Sapien fills all three bills. Readers will get a unique immersion into the underground world of the hobo. The spiritual takes are written with a subtle humor that helps the medicine go down. It is not your parent's self-help book.Armchair adventurers, rail fans, spiritual seekers, and academia nuts will all gather intriguing information from this missive. It is vastly different from other hobo books because of its unparalleled combination of adventure, rail history, humor, and spirituality. The author's background is also unique and varied. Not many hobos have gone from Yale to rail or from hunk to monk.
Fashion, Culture, and Identity
Author: Fred DavisPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022616795X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our identity? Is the desire to be "in fashion" universal, or is it unique to Western culture? How do fashions change? These are just a few of the intriguing questions Fred Davis sets out to answer in this provocative look at what we do with our clothes—and what they can do to us. Much of what we assume to be individual preference, Davis shows, really reflects deeper social and cultural forces. Ours is an ambivalent social world, characterized by tensions over gender roles, social status, and the expression of sexuality. Predicting what people will wear becomes a risky gamble when the link between private self and public persona can be so unstable.
Author: Jennifer CraikCat Party #6
Author: Katie HaegelePublisher: Microcosm Publishing
ISBN: 9781621068266
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Contributors reflect on their relationships with their feline companions while quarantined together during the coronavirus pandemic in this new, heartfelt anthology of comics and stories about the cats we've known. Inside you'll find the surprisingly lighthearted story of Soxy the haunted-house cat by Vanessa Berry, the quarantined days of comics artist Jay McQuirns narrated by Lucy and Squetch, a poetic ode by Joe Carlough, Jackie Soro's illustrated meditation on the relative merits of sharing her isolation with a cat vs a girlfriend, a reminder that All Cats Are Babies, two of Missy Kulik's comics about her cat Nilla, Defectivepudding's demented fairy tale comic about a pie, and Helen Kaucher on felines' and humans' shared dreams of escape from the house.
