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The Book of the IS, volume 1, Fail...To WIN!: Essays in engineered disperfection
What is the IS?
223 pages of brutal truths.
Is engineering failure effective? Fun? Interesting? Profitable?
What is: Severe Comedy? Does it hurt?
How can you eliminate hope? Isn’t hope a kind of fear?
What happens if you live your life as art?
No really, actually, authentically live your life as art?
Here is a guy who crashed his Showboat into his grandstand while wielding his street cred like a +5 sword against the idea that a show has to be fiction. It doesn’t. A show can be real. Should be real. Has to be real if it’s any good. He turned writing a book into a show.
The last page of the Book of the Is has a coupon, good for one (1) ANYTHING.
With the coupon intact, the price of the book is $100.
With the coupon ripped out of the book, the price is $40.
The book w/coupon and a fancy cover, handmade, signed and number by international Artstar SWOON is $250
The coupon does not expire and is redeemable from Chicken John, at any time, for goods or services equal to, but not limited to, anything.
For mail order send well concealed cash to:
Chicken John Rinaldi, 3359 Army Street, SF CA 94110.
223 pages of brutal truths.
Is engineering failure effective? Fun? Interesting? Profitable?
What is: Severe Comedy? Does it hurt?
How can you eliminate hope? Isn’t hope a kind of fear?
What happens if you live your life as art?
No really, actually, authentically live your life as art?
Here is a guy who crashed his Showboat into his grandstand while wielding his street cred like a +5 sword against the idea that a show has to be fiction. It doesn’t. A show can be real. Should be real. Has to be real if it’s any good. He turned writing a book into a show.
The last page of the Book of the Is has a coupon, good for one (1) ANYTHING.
With the coupon intact, the price of the book is $100.
With the coupon ripped out of the book, the price is $40.
The book w/coupon and a fancy cover, handmade, signed and number by international Artstar SWOON is $250
The coupon does not expire and is redeemable from Chicken John, at any time, for goods or services equal to, but not limited to, anything.
For mail order send well concealed cash to:
Chicken John Rinaldi, 3359 Army Street, SF CA 94110.
- GenresNonfiction
223 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2011
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December 19, 2011
Simultaneously very funny and very depressing biography and history of Chicken John Rinaldi and his Circus Rediculess. Some of his dadaist stunts are simply amazing, but the overall tone is relentlessly sad -- a never-ending, losing battle against bland conformity.
June 8, 2015
What a reading romp!
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