Elvis Is Dead and I Don't Feel So Good Myself

Author: Lewis Grizzard
Publisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1603060839
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
The 1950s were simple times to grow up. For Lewis Grizzard and his buddies, gallivanting meant hanging out at the local store, eating Zagnut candy bars and drinking "Big Orange bellywashers." About the worst thing a kid ever did was smoke rabbit tobacco rolled in paper torn from a brown grocery sack, or maybe slick back his hair into a ducktail and try gyrating his hips like Elvis. But then assassinations, war, civil rights, free love, and drugs rocked the old order. And as they did, Grizzard frequently felt lost and confused. In place of Elvis, the Pied Piper of his generation, Grizzard now found wormy-looking, long-haired English kids who performed either half-naked or dressed like Zasu Pitts. Elvis Is Dead and I Don't Feel So Good Myself is the witty, satiric, nostalgic account of Grizzard's efforts to survive in a changing world. Sex, music, clothes, entertainment, and life itself receive the Grizzard treatment. In this, his sixth book, Grizzard was never funnier or more in tune with his readers. He might not have felt so good himself, but his social commentary and humor can still make the rest of us feel just fine.

Chili Dawgs Always Bark at Night

Author: Lewis Grizzard
Publisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1603063374
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
In Chili Dawgs Always Bark at Night, Lewis Grizzard once again confirms his reputation as the "William Faulkner of just plain folks" using colorful storytelling to tackle such Grizzardian subjects as: Fashion: "Don't wear anything that features a picture of a pelican, a pink flamingo, or a beer can." The Future: "I'm predicting the world isn't going to come to an end anytime soon. There's too much unresolved, like whether or not Elvis is still alive, Jimmy Swaggart can stay on television, and if there will be another Rambo sequel." Dating: "Any single white female who has to resort to taking out an ad to find a boyfriend would take a SWM who's into yodeling, Hustler magazine, Ripple, and robbing convenience stores." People Who Cheat in the 12-Items-or-Less Lane: "Previously, I have dog-cussed these people and put curses on them, like, 'May your children grow up to be liberal Democrats.' I'm not going to be that mean-spirited anymore. What I'm going to do is go to the vegetable bin, grab a large cucumber, and beat them about the head and shoulders with it." Lewis Grizzard offers his views on everything from politics, religion, sex, and golf to the largest condom heist in history, wittier and more outrageous than ever. Chili Dawgs Always Bark at Night shows why the South's most popular humorist continues to be America's most popular funny man.

If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I'm Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground

Author: Lewis Grizzard
Publisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1588382737
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 418

Book Description
Lewis Grizzard got his first newspaper job when he was ten years old. Thirty-odd years later (thirty-very-odd years) he's still in the newspaper business--and he's still infuriated by it, still tickled by it, and still very much in love with it. If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I'm Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground is all about that anger, that great humor and that even greater passion for something that affects every single one of us: the daily newspaper. Grizzard begins with his first writing job (covering a Boy's Church League team in Newman, Georgia), and continues through his college years in Athens, Georgia, where he learned how to do such things as prepare a front-page headline and layout in case Jesus Christ ever returned to earth. (Headline: HE'S BACK!) He examines the great Atlanta years and the cold Chicago winters--as sports editor of the Sun-Times, during which Grizzard lost his second wife, his cool, and very nearly his sanity, but also learned an awful lot about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This is Grizzard's funniest--and his best--book yet.

In Search Of Elvis

Author: Vernon Chadwick
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429968442
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325

Book Description
The International Conference on Elvis Presley, convened at the University of Mississippi in August, transformed a rock and roll icon into a scholarly phenomenon. Educators, artists, and Elvis aficionados from across the worldplus over one hundred internationally based reporterscollected on Oxford, Mississippi, soil to analyze and celebrate Elvis impact on the world stage.From this conference, which became front page New York Times Magazine news, springs this book, the best and brightest essays and artwork swirling around the cultural, social, political, and iconographic figure of Elvis Presley. Discussed within are such topics as Elvis as Southerner, Elvis as sign system, Elvis multicultural audiences, Elvis and rockabilly, Elvis as redneck, the Elvis oeuvre, and Elvis religious roots. Taken together, In Search of Elvis represents a daring and groundbreaking academic analysis. Richly illustrated with original Elvis-inspired artwork, this book captures the subterranean essence of one of the most phenomenal artists to have ever lived. }The International Conference on Elvis Presley, convened at the University of Mississippi in August, transformed a rock and roll icon into a scholarly phenomenon. Educators, artists, and Elvis aficionados from across the worldplus over one hundred internationally based reporterscollected on Oxford, Mississippi, soil to analyze and celebrate Elvis impact on the world stage.From this conference, which became front page New York Times Magazine news, springs this book, the best and brightest essays and artwork swirling around the cultural, social, political, and iconographic figure of Elvis Presley. Discussed within are such topics as Elvis as Southerner, Elvis as sign system, Elvis multicultural audiences, Elvis and rockabilly, Elvis as redneck, the Elvis oeuvre, and Elvis religious roots. Taken together, In Search of Elvis represents a daring and groundbreaking academic analysis. Richly illustrated with original Elvis-inspired artwork, this book captures the subterranean essence of one of the most phenomenal artists to have ever lived.

My Daddy Was a Pistol and I’m a Son of a Gun

Author: Lewis Grizzard
Publisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1603061541
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
Lewis Grizzard always makes us laugh. But this time, when he tells us all about his father—a certified war hero and a shameless passer of bad checks . . . a charmer of men and women and a consummate con artist . . . a man of great courage and an alcoholic destined to drink himself to death—he’s going to make us cry, too. And he’s going to give us a hilarious, moving account of that “tender, spooky territory: that country of the heart inhabited by fathers and sons.”

Cheryl’S Poems

Author: Cheryl Swofford
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532042949
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
Cheryls Poems range from the autobiographical, with a touch of Southern gothic, to the unknown future and a little bit of everything in between (aliens, animals, coaches, crazy aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters, drugs, drunks, Elvis, the famous and infamous, geniuses, grandparents, hackers, heroes, hunters, hypocrites, judges, lawyers, lovers, players, preachers, presidents, prisoners, prostitutes, refugees, robots, royals, scientists, singers, soldiers, teachers, and so on). Have you ever been infatuated, in love, and/or in lust? Might you be interested in life in the rural South during segregation? And the deaths of President Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy, or Che Guevara? Has anyone in your family ever been involved in conflict or divorce? Are you interested in adventure, family history, any history, -isms, literature, mythology, nature, peace, politics, pollution, religion, science, sports, or war? Have you wondered about the supernatural? Are you concerned with justice and rights? With the environment? With the future of the earth? Have you ever felt abused, bullied, depressed, discriminated against, sexually harassed, or insecure? (Who hasnt?) Every emotion and something for everyone are in this collection of poems. Cheryl was a ridge runner as a girl growing up in the mountains of North Carolina but has since been around the block. She has lived in seven US states and on the island of St. Lucia. For a year, she crossed the border from El Paso, Texas, to work in a hospital in Juarez in Mexico. She called Atlanta home for fifteen years when she saw and met several famous people she tells about. She lives back in her small North Carolina hometown, which has never been like Mayberry (and her daddy wasnt like Andy). She is a committed activist for the environment and justice and is interested in history, literature, people, and sciencethe past, present, and futurewhich are all reflected in her poetry.

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Author: M. Thomas Inge
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469616645
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 534

Book Description
Offering a comprehensive view of the South's literary landscape, past and present, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture celebrates the region's ever-flourishing literary culture and recognizes the ongoing evolution of the southern literary canon. As new writers draw upon and reshape previous traditions, southern literature has broadened and deepened its connections not just to the American literary mainstream but also to world literatures--a development thoughtfully explored in the essays here. Greatly expanding the content of the literature section in the original Encyclopedia, this volume includes 31 thematic essays addressing major genres of literature; theoretical categories, such as regionalism, the southern gothic, and agrarianism; and themes in southern writing, such as food, religion, and sexuality. Most striking is the fivefold increase in the number of biographical entries, which introduce southern novelists, playwrights, poets, and critics. Special attention is given to contemporary writers and other individuals who have not been widely covered in previous scholarship.

Behind the Burger

Author: John E. Ellinas
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1665709898
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
It is late July 1979 when a young man interviews with a relatively new fast-food chain. After he is immediately offered a position as a manager trainee, John never realizes that it is an early warning sign of future chaos. A saner man should have turned and ran. After he endures training and is promoted to assistant manager, John is transferred to a new restaurant. Excited and pumped for the challenge, he has no idea what is in store for him on his first day. Just as he begins closing the restaurant for the night, a masked man emerges from the hedges, robs the restaurant, and causes an unpleasant ending to John’s first foray in the industry. As he struggles through multiple robberies, corporate intrigue and politics, snow and ice in Atlanta, and questionable decisions from upper management, John somehow finds a way to inject humor into the most stressful and intense situations as he navigates through both good and bad days in an unpredictable business. Behind the Burger is the intriguing and sometimes amusing tale of a restaurant manager’s experiences as he does his best to survive and thrive through three decades in the fast-food industry.

The Flirty Text Message Helper: Witty Texts For Clever People

Author: Michael Alvear
Publisher: Woodpecker Media
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 53

Book Description
Can't Think Of Anything Flirty To Text That Cutie You Just Met? Try one of the witty texts hand-picked by our team of writers and researchers. Classified by 19 dating circumstances, there are no cliches, lame poems or cheesy pickup lines. These are real texts we've tested on guys and girls. For example: You: STOP. Likely reply: Stop what? You: Stop thinking about me. See, you’re doing it…right now. Use our texts for other situations, too. Let's say you want to make the other person jealous. Try this: You: You would NOT believe what happened to me last night! Likely reply: What? You: Oh, crap! Wrong person! What if you just want to make somebody smile with a clever text? Try this: "I renamed my iPod ‘The Titanic’ so when I plug it in it to my computer it says, “The Titanic is Syncing.” Or if you want to pay them a teasing compliment? Try this: You: “This cat way cat to cat keep cat a cat cutie cat busy cat for cat 20 cat seconds cat! Likely reply: ??? You: NOW READ IT WITHOUT SAYING CAT! With The Flirty Text Message Helper you'll never write another boring text again! And because our texts are categorized by 19 common dating situations you'll find the perfect texts for your particular situation: 1. You Don’t Know How Interested They Are So You Want To Start Slow 2. You Know They’re Interested So You Want To Be Flirty 3. You want to make them laugh. 4. Cute Ways Of Saying Hello After You’ve Texted a Couple of Times 5. Cute Ways of Saying Goodbye 6. Clever Questions That Make You More Interesting For Asking. 7. You Want To Play Hard To Get (Cocky Funny) 8. “Unclogger” Texts: Getting Him Or Her To Text You Back 9. Clever Questions To Ask When You Don’t Know How To Start A New Thread 10. You Want To Be Seen As Fun & Wacky 11. You Want To Be Seen As A Partier 12. Teasing: Taking The Hot Girl Or Guy Down A Peg Or Two 13. Insults: Mowing Down The Hot Girl Or Guy 14. You Want To Step It Up To A Phone Call 15. Dirty Flirty: You’ve had sex 16. Filthy Dirty: Texts That Would Scare Your Mom 17. You’re falling in love 18. You screwed up 19. Fun Phrases The Flirty Text Message Helper Helps You Impress The People Who Impressed You! Download It Today. Use It Tonight!

Midnight Oil

Author: Creative Writer's Forum
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1893652696
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
Welcome to the first publication of the Creative Writers Forum of Fredericksburg, Virginia. We hope you enjoy reading our work as much as we enjoyed writing it. With new styles and ideas to excite your imagination, we'll scratch that itch in your gray matter. You'll find our views span the scope from the traditional to the outlandish and beyond. You'll smile and maybe shed a tear. You'll agree, and you'll surely disagree, but you're bound to have an experience of the mind that keeps us all thinking and questioning and growing. Contributing writers are: William Bray Christina Freeburn Clint Gaige Sara Lindley Bill Saffell Deborah Snyder Mary Triola Shannon Triola Carol Winters C. E. Wells