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  • On Watching The Point for the First Time
    David Macpherson
    In 1970, Harry Nilsson put out a kids album called the Point. It was filled with songs and narration. It is about a village wherever one has a point on their head except for one friendly kid named Oblio. His head is round and he is banished because he has no point.In 1972, It became a TV movie directed by the guy who made the Tootsie Roll Pop commercial where the Wise Owl figur...
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    10,45 €

  • Story Ideas I Will Not Write
    David Macpherson
    You are a writer?That’s awesome. I’m not a writer, but I have a great idea for a book. You should take my idea and write it and we can split the insane amount of sales this book will no doubt produce, in half.Here is my idea. I know, I should not share it with you because you might just run off and do it by yourself and leave me with nothing, though the idea is mine and we all ...
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    10,58 €

  • The Wolf Man and Mr. Hyde at Big Bully’s Wine and Liquor Super Store
    David Macpherson
    The Wolf Man, Larry, has gone into a giant liquor store and is wandering about, even though he has been sober. Werewolves have a hard time staying sober and being in a liquor store is a bad look. Mr. Hyde (of the famous Duo) goes in to help Larry out. They are both sober. Mr. Hyde isn’t really a sponsor, but he can be persuasive.They wander around the immense liquor store. They...
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    10,55 €

  • Mikey Longhaul
    David Macpherson
    Time is not a river. Time is the ticking of the clock. Time is not a loop where people run around and repeat the same day over and over.No.Time is a highway.It is a long well paved highway that goes from the start of creation on until the end of everything. Don’t be alarmed. There are offramps along the way. You can drive the Time Highway and get off at your favorite eras. You ...
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    10,64 €

  • The Three Pig Variations
    David Macpherson
    You know the story. Three pigs build three houses. One is of straw. One is of sticks. One is of bricks. A wolf comes around and tests the strength of the houses against his breath. He fails against the house of bricks.That’s the motif.What can we do with variations of that theme? We present 27 little plays that take this motif and run with it.We look at aspects of the plot. We ...
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    10,76 €

  • On Watching the Wonderful Land of Oz for the First Time
    David Macpherson
    In 1969, Barry Mahon decided that he was done making skin flicks and made a kiddie flick. He made the Wonderful Land of Oz. It is based on the second Oz book.It is mostly lost to history, probably because it was so low budget it had no chance to be all it wanted to be.David Macpherson, as part of the First Watch Chronicles, picked this as the next movie to write about.He goes i...
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    9,47 €

  • I Have Seen Bands
    David Macpherson
    What is your favorite concert?What band is your favorite?Do you still have the ticket stub? Do you have the concert t-shirt in a closet somewhere?Bands and the music they give us are a major part of what makes us the people we are.We love the music and we love to see it live.This is a personal collection of David Macpherson’s memories of the concerts he has gone to. They starte...
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    9,76 €

  • A Clandestine Expedition to the Ancient Buriel Ground of VHS Tapes
    David Macpherson
    These are the tapes. These are the VHS available for purchase. These are the tombstones for the old, dead technology. Entering Turn It Up! In Brattleboro, Vermont you will see many different forms of media. There are records, CDs, DVDs, Blu Rays, Comic Books, Books and t-shirts and patches. But there are also several bookcases stuffed with VHS tapes. There are hundreds of VHS t...
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    9,40 €

  • Let’s Get Out of Here
    David Macpherson
    Let’s get out of here! That’s a line that you will hear in movies. A lot. A man stealing a car might say it. Or someone trying to escape from a kaiju. Or a drug-addled lawyer wanting to leave a second rate casino. Or a drug-addled girl from Kansas realizing that the poppies are poisoned. You might hear it from gang leaders to police detectives. The apparition of a dead army fri...
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    9,37 €

  • Writing Pictures
    David Macpherson
    What can you learn from looking deeply into the work of another writer?We hope a lot.James Kochalka is a very prolific creator of comics and graphic novels. Many of them are for children, some are decidedly adult. They have a fun, cartoony look. Kochalka has made well over fifty graphic novels and he keeps on creating them. The writer of this book, David Macpherson, was inspi...
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    7,13 €

  • The Gap Between Physics and Mysticism While Traveling Across the Country In a Fast Moving Train
    David Macpherson
    School is doneYou have a degree.You have a license to teach English.You have all the chances in the world.But you have no drive to do anything.You sit in your useless job doing useless tasks.Might as well take a trip.Might as well sit in a train going from New York to Seattle and miss looking at the scenery.It is 1992 and you are ready to see the world through a train window.Mi...
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    9,34 €

  • The North Pole Hotline
    David Macpherson
    Wouldn’t it be cool to call up Santa and find out what’s going on up in the North Pole? You bet it would. And thanks to pay call system you were able to call up Santa and see how the preparation for Christmas will be. It cost fifty cents a minute, but it was worth it to get the skinny from Santa and the gang. But what would happen iif you called after Christmas? What would you ...
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    9,63 €

  • Brief Stories for the Half Asleep
    David Macpherson
    What we have here is a collection of tiny books that were released as ebooks over the past six years. Sometimes, a collection of stories, especially if they are very short, will be small tiny things. Some people have a fear of tiny books. We get it. The last thing you want to run into in a dark alley one moonless night is as five thousand ebooks Now, we have brought them togeth...
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    12,07 €

  • The Complete Library of Disposable Art
    David Macpherson
    Welcome to the world of crap you keep instead of throwing out.It’s the stuff that you love to have around you but are not sure why.There are over fifty essays about the little things in life in this book. Like coloring books and nip bottles. Why do we keep them? Why do we find joy in these things.There are a variety of items that people collect and decorate their lives with: gl...
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    14,50 €

  • Yesterday’s Stack
    David Macpherson
    In 2019, I was going to turn fifty and had my midlife crisis by wallowing in the comic books I loved as a kid.I started buying comic books again. Not new comics. Hell no. I was keyed into old comics.The shit I read when I was a kid. When I was a teenager in the 1980s, I spent all my money on comic books. I would go to the local shop on Saturdays and buy a large wedge of books...
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    14,44 €

  • Mr. Lemon Goes Down the List
    David Macpherson
    Is there fate or do you have control of your life? Mr. Lemon starts every day waiting for someone to come by and give him a list. Mr. Lemon’s life is to go down the list. The list tells him to do things he does not understand. He has to kiss that man. He has to dump that woman’s coffee out. He has to buy weed that he knows is oregano. He has to do what he is told to affect li...
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    10,75 €

  • One Minute From Every Movie On Tubi Starting With the Letter Q
    David Macpherson
    Who has the time to watch a whole movie? There are so many movies and you don’t have the time squeezing in all the cat videos you are constantly scrolling through. How do you get to watch a lot of movies? Why don’t you just watch a minute from a bunch of movies? That’s a plan, but even that will take time that you don’t have, what is to be done? You can let us watch it for yo...
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    9,34 €

  • The Eternal Bartender Replies
    David Macpherson
    Pat is the Eternal Bartender. He has worked at juke joints, mead halls, and floating barges filled with beer. As long as there have been public places to drink, Pat has been there with his white shirt and surly attitude. He can tell you stories about how bars used to be. And he will. All you need to do is tell him some bar lore and he can steer you straight. He can tell you how...
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    9,37 €

  • Background Players
    David Macpherson
    Who do you call a criminal? It can’t be Martha and Emily. They help the criminals, but does that make them crooks as well? The Sisters are just trying to make a living. They will bring illicit materials to mob bosses. They will copyedit notes announcing that this is a bank robbery. They will teach others how to distribute counterfeit money. They will also drug and transport peo...
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    10,85 €

  • How to Write Every Day
    David Macpherson
    How do you write every day? For David Macpherson, he has not missed a day of writing in five years. Every day in those years, he has written at least 200 words a day. It is not a lot of words, but when looked at for an entire year, it becomes a good amount of writing. David goes through his small journey into being a more prolific and consistent writer. He offers some advice, b...
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    9,34 €

  • A Biography of the Bookcase on my Side of the Bed
    David Macpherson
    Bookcases lie in wait. They are teeming with books. Some of them you have read. Some of them you were given as gifts. Other books were bought with enthusiasm and then ignored. Forgotten. Bookcases tell the story of a the owner of the books. They tell you what his interests are and where he buys his books. What stores does he loiter in? This is a memoir of five years of buying ...
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    9,31 €

  • You Are the Audience
    David Macpherson
    You are the audienceYou are the one who is out listening and clapping.You are there with the stamp on your hand to prove that you can drink.You are the one who knows the music.The most important part of seeing a performance, having an audience.And that is you.Without you, there would be no music, no theater, no dance.You are the linchpin with a cover charge.Join David Macpherso...
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    10,94 €

  • How the World Died
    David Macpherson
    How did the world die? It certainly did not survive. It has been many years since things perished. But how? The young boys want to know. They ask the Grayling, the old man who was there during the time of the death of the world. He tells the tale. The tale of how the world died. It might have to do with over affectionate rodents. It might have to do with alien invasions or zom...
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    9,40 €

  • Ratwarmer
    David Macpherson
    Tim is a ratwarmer. He has the power to bring people back from the dead. During the FlipSwitch, some people got some powers. Tim got the power of reanimation. It’s not as great as it seems. He works for the police. He brings recently dead victims back so they can be a witness to their own death. That’s what a ratwarmer does. It doesn’t work well, but it’s worth a try. No...
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    9,43 €

  • What I Learned From Writing This Book
    David Macpherson
    What can you learn from finishing a book? You can learn so much. Did it work? Why were parts hard? Why were parts easy? How come it went out on its own despite the author’s best intentions? These are all the questions you ask when you are done with a book. If you don’t then maybe you should. Writing is learning. If you are not paying attention, then you will never get the bo...
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    9,57 €

  • The Library of Disposable Art Volume One
    David Macpherson
    What do you collect? What is hanging around the house with you like an old friend? This is a book about all the things in our lives that we keep even though we know better. What are the things we should throw away, but we hold on to? Can we see the collection of playbills from local community theater productions art? If it isn’t art, what is it? In this book, there are chap...
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    9,47 €

  • A City of Novels
    David Macpherson
    Who wants to create a novel? Everyone. There are cities filled with people bubbling to be a novelist. They abscond themselves in coffee shops in their attempt to make the great novel. Everyone at this coffee shop is writing their novel. The coffee shop itself is working on their its as well. This is one of those cities. There are people who want to help the other potential writ...
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    11,00 €

  • Six Brief Memoirs
    David Macpherson
    What kind of writing can you get done in three days? David Macpherson wrote a memoir in three days. He liked it so much, he did it five more times. What you have in this book are the six small memoirs he wrote in three days a piece. You will learn about the ins and outs of being a Rocky Horror kid. Or you experience a youth remembered in reference to the TV shows he watched. Ho...
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    16,39 €

  • And Then There Are Those Who Live in the Back of Old Books
    David Macpherson
    Finding a place to live is tough. There isn’t a lot of places available, and when they are, they are crazy expensive. A group of punks and drop-outs have discovered the decent enough place to live: in the back of old paperbacks. It is simple living, but there is no rent. And because people ignore old books, they are pretty much left alone. They eat punctuation and hunt animals ...
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    9,40 €

  • Not a Day of Miracles
    David Macpherson
    Santa Claus comes in roaring drunk at the Jewish Nursing Home.Father Death and Father Life walk hand in hand down the streets of the city.A variety of performance artists practice their calling during a zombie apocalypse.There is the creation of the universe as seen as a film noir heist.A church worships the Frankenstein monster as the savior. 'Not a Day of Miracles' is a colle...
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    9,66 €


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