A "deeply funny new collection of booger-flecked nonfiction"--Time Out New York

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"His stories are, as the title suggests, inappropriate, and they often engender squeamishness, discomfort, and laughter. But they are fresh and, at times, touching, qualities that make this an enjoyable read."--Library Journal

"One of the year's funniest books."--Largehearted Boy

Whoopee cushion coupon. When you buy a copy of the book and send this coupon, along with the book, to Daniel Nester's home, he will send you an official How to Be Inappropriate whoopee cushion. That's right: inflate one of these puppies and let the faux farts fly! While supplies last. [PDF]




Shelf talker.
You know those pieces of paper that stick out of bookstore shelves that touts a title of note? They're called shelf-talkers, and here at Inappropriate Headquarters, we have made some for your own shelf-talking pleasure. print it out, and place it under copies of How to Be Inappropriate at your local bookstore. Or print one out and place one on your own bookshelf! Alternatively, you can use this as a bookmark or to flag down authorities at a roadside accident. [PDF]

 

Thursday, September 24, 2009
A mini-commonplace II.

I don't understand this talk of Coltrane being difficult to understand. What he does, for example, it to play five notes of a chord and then keep changing it around, trying to see how many different ways it can sound. It's like explaining something five different ways.--Miles Davis

They say base men being in love have then/a nobility in their natures more than native in them.-- Othello

Is she a bus, plane, or train ticket?--co-worker at Sunshine Wash 'n' Buff

Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.--George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, book 5, chapter 1

The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing--Archilochus, qtd in Isaiah Berlin, The Hedgehog and the Fox

It is the difference that will not go away, the difference between what others see of us and our sense of our inner selves and the deep feelings that sustain it.--Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

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Monday, July 06, 2009
"Youth is like spring, an over-praised season": Original context from Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh.


A screen shot of page 58, Google Books version of Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh.

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Wednesday, July 01, 2009
A mini-commonplace.

If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone--from Kenko's Essays in Idleness, translated Donald Keene

We must resist the critic's habit, as strong now as ever it was, of dividing poets into teams and making them play against each other--alas, poor critic, having to referee a match in which the players are constantly fraternizing, exchanging jerseys, running in the wrong direction and turning the rules to anarchy!--C. Day Lewis, from The Poetic Image. Boston: Jonathan Cape, 1963, p. 30

We've got perception--Timothy Dansereau

I tried very hard not to have a theme.--Melanie G.

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