Larry Blamire's Blammary of Terms You May Not Know with unrelated illustrations

by Larry Blamire

Writer-director-playwright-artist-actor and known hyphenate Larry Blamire has taken his love of words and realized a new kind of reference book for things that may or may not exist, or if they do exist, just not like this. Maybe. As Larry has said time and time again time, “I just want to change the way people think about the things they don’t think about.” Well now they’re all here, for the idle curio seeker layabout and crossword-hardened professional amateur alike. Over 1300 terms, from aaardvark to zzzz, in one handy book you can pick up with one hand while praising with the other. Don’t blame us if you find yourself fighting to put it down, like a thing that physically grips you, without the aid of any kind of hand that we can see.

118 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[Jeff · Rating 5 out of 5]

From the wonderfully weird mind of Larry Blamire -- filmmaker, writer, artist and cyclops (well, according to the back cover photo, at least) comes this book of terms you may not know but should (and will, after you finish reading it).

You will learn such words as awestrich (flightless, swift-running African bird that had a long neck, long legs, and is 700 feet tall), jockatoo (parrot with limited vocabulary) and ratorical (referencing a rodent that doesn't exist for the purposes of argument).

If you read one or two entries at a sitting, you will smile. If you read a couple of pages at a sitting, you will chuckle and maybe even guffaw. If you read ten or more pages at a sitting, you will howl with laughter and have tears running down your face. If you read fifty pages at a sitting, you will laugh so convulsively that you might need medical attention. If you read the whole book at a sitting, you might just die laughing (but what better way to go?).

I like the illustrations, too!