Neo-Classics?
Let's Revise That Opus
1. Of Rice And Zen (a look at life in a Japanese monastery)
2. Tequila Mockingbird (a bartender's guide to exotic drinks)
3. How Green Was My Valet (an eco-loving aide teaches his boss to care about saving the planet)
4. The Count Of Monte Cristos (a handy guide to the fat and caloric content of various sandwiches)
5. The Keg And I (disturbing story of a college student who becomes a binge drinker)
6. Pair O' Dice Tossed (a gambling addict's life becomes a living hell)
7. The Merchant Of  Menace (an expose of a Venetian's protection racket)
8. Clout Of Africa (a scholar predicts that the Dark Continent will become a 21st century economic power)
9. How The West Was Spun (a revisionist historian debunks the lives of the cowboys)
10. Major For Major (a retired Army officer joins the senior golf tour and wins a classic tournament)
11. The Rhyme Machine (a biography of Ogden Nash)
12. The Crime Of The Ancient Mariner (a deranged ship's captain sails the globe chasing albatrosses and orders his crew to throttle all that they encounter)
13. The Hatchback Of Notre Dame (why a new line of battery-powered cars resonates with Parisian drivers)
14. Bride And Prejudice (an activist's plea for the legalization of gay and lesbian marriages)
15. Ivan, Ho! (an offbeat tribute to the tsars of Old Russia)
16. Buss Stop (an epidemiologist warns of the dangers of indiscriminate kissing)
17. The Free Musketeers (a look at the unsung heroes of America's War of Independence)
18. A Tail Of Two Cities (how suburbia developed in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area)
19. Remembrance Of Flings Past (a biography of Errol Flynn)
20. Light In August (a weight-loss guide, with a special menu for each day in July)
21. Scents And Sensibility (a paean to aromatherapy)
22. Catch Her In The Wry (tips on how men can use humor to attract women)
23. Cheekonomics (a scathing account of insider trading and pyramid schemes on Wall Street)
24. Vanity Fare (how to select and furnish the right dressing table for you)
25. The Return Of The Dative (a linguist argues for the reinstatement of intensive grammar study in high school)
26. Weathering Heights (a study of the effects of erosion in the Swiss Alps)
27. Jay Nair (a biography of the inventor of the famous depilatory)
28. Atlas Shrugged (how a titanic Olympic weightlifter developed killer traps and delts)
29. Pallas in Wonderland (an analysis of the role of Athena in Greek mythology)
30. The Pound And The Worry (an English economist's fear that the Euro will become the world's pre-eminent currency)
31. Dude, The Obscure (a dictionary of surfer lingo)
32. A Room With A Pew (a look at the humble beginnings of Rick Warren's mega-church)
33. Elle Cyd (a biography of Cyd Charisse)
34. The Dharma Mums (a study of motherhood in a hippie commune)
35. The Gall Of The Roaming Empire (a send-up of George W. Bush's foreign policy)
36. The Good Dearth (a demonstration of how scarcity stimulates creativity and productivity)
37. The Leads of Grass (an analysis of drug imagery in Whitman's classic poem)
38. Treasure Highland (a Scotsman's love affair with his home turf)
39. Little Spouse On The Prairie (heartwarming tale of a dwarf homemaker on a farm in South Dakota)
40. Grim Ferry Tales (depicts the frazzled life of a Lopez Island couple who commute to Seattle to work)
41. Best Side Story (how to gain employment by mastering the art of resume writing)
42. The Crass Menagerie (an expose of how a desire for profit leads a private-sector zoo to underfeed its animals)
43. Dour Town (a sociologist finds hidden gloom beneath the stoic surface of a New England village)
44. The Nice Man Cometh (a new generation of males learns to get in touch with its feminine side)
45. The Canterbury Gaols (a history of crime and punishment in England)
46. Dr. Noh (how Kan'ami brought Japanese musical drama to its present form)
47. The Sea Gal (Florence Chadwick and her history-making swim across the English Channel)
48. Peer Gynt (the story of an Englishman's career in the House of Lords)
49. The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (a runaway Nordic lad steals a sailboat and frolics among the fiords)
50. Catch 20, Too (20 special fly-tying techniques to help anglers get their limits)

Latest comments

29.03 | 17:31

Hi Bruce,
I smiled a lot as I looked! Sometimes I didn't quite understand, other times I did! Keep doing this! You are a fun thinker!

05.07 | 23:04

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11.10 | 23:42

No longer pray for an outcome. Just do the footwork, if I can see any. I just pray for the grace to willing accept what the outcome will be.

30.06 | 02:37

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