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|  | | Coruscated Confabulations: Oh! The Humanity!
'Coruscated Confabulations' is a collection of stories and experiences, most of which took place in prior decades. They are taken from or based upon real events, with a certain admixture of fictional embellishments.
Most of these stories were written over a period of years and were set down in other venues (such as the Middle East, China, Hawaii, etc.), looking back. They are a synthesis of real events suffused with a certain artistic license. In any event they serve to represent/portray the author's unique perspective on human experience.
Below appears a list of the 27 or so chapters contained in the book.
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Contents
Chapter 1: The Point of it All…pp 9
Chapter 2: The Doodah Room…pp 33
Chapter 3: Saddam's Toile | |  | | Falling Off the Mountain (poems)
A further collection of poems, many from years in the Middle East, but also the California San Francisco and Central Coast areas (Santa Cruz, Carmel, Big Sur, Berkeley, etc.).
This is a further collection of poems, including a number written while an expatriate civilian hired-hand of the Saudi Arabian Government. As may be imagined, 'love' was often a bit more difficult to find in that sere & religiously austere region, and was always confined to interactions between foreign (non-Arab) expats.
'Falling Off the Mountain' also includes some climbing poems & doggerel relating to climbing adventures, since the Sierra Nevada mountain range was practically in the back yard (so to speak), as well as a few aviation-related pieces (nothing, but | |  | | Marooned on Moloka'i: Coconuts, Dreams & Death
A 30 day log (2005) of life on Moloka'i (HI), the last of the 'befoh time' Hawaiian holdouts, for a haole malihini.
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: Verdana;">The island of Moloka'i/span>/span>/b>span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: Verdana;">, universally acknowledged as the last (excluding i>'The Forbidden Island of Ni'ihau'/i>) sanctuary of old-fashioned, colonisation-resisting Hawaiian sentiment, has a history that is fascinating. Known as i>'Moloka'i pule O'o'/i>, or i>'Moloka'i of the Powerful Prayers'/i>, and home of ancient Hawaiian priests whose formidable powers were respected and feared throughout the entire Hawaiian chain, in the mos | |  | | Santa Cruz Sargasso, Berkeley Fog (poems)
Collected poems written in the Santa Cruz and Berkeley areas during the 70s & 80s, while working at the Santa Cruz Heart Institute.
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: Verdana;">This collection consists of a number of my 70s & 80s poems, many of them committed to paper in Santa Cruz (principally at HEINZ' BIERGARTEN DELI, which was the preferred post-heart surgery decompensation venue), with others recorded at various places between Santa Cruz and Berkeley (where the rooftop over Peet's Coffees was a favorite hangout...it should be noted that the two multi-bazillionares who founded thei> STARF*CKS /b>/i>chain in Seattle learned their trade as raw neophyte baristas at Mr. Peet's knees the | |  | | Saunas and War Toys
An account of adventures in Scandinavia that involved flying dragons, Russian and German submarines, old WW2 era battlefields, Finnish foxes (female kind), Finnish-Mexican cuisine and much more. Written for the most part with a light touch, it ends on a semi-serious note about submarine warfare during the 'Cold War'.
An unconventional travelogue about many strange and unusual subjects, such as taking a ride on a Finnish dragon, avoiding moose-hits in the Finnish out-back, lecturing young Tom Cruise type fighter jocks, exploring old Russian and Finnish (German precursor) submarines, ogling Finnish girls, gas masks, taking saunas, and other NOT-stodgy esoterica.
To follow are two further light-hearted 'larks' that are still in manuscript form at this time (i>'/i>i>Wahoo Backdoor'/i>,/b> an account of adventures in Saudi Arabia, and i>'Marooned on Moloka'i'/i>/b>, an unusu | |  | | U S Chemical and Biological Defense Respirators
An illustrated developmental history of the American military chemical and biological protective respirator for use against war agents, this work provides photographs of actual respirator specimens and several useful appendices, in addition to its engaging chapters. A perfect coffee table book to thoroughly confuse and depress your unwanted drop-in proletarian visitors (perhaps even send them screaming from your doorstep in esoteric overload mode), or an excellent historical reference on a very arcane subject. You choose. Selection of this book for inclusion on your reference shelf marks you as one of those rare thinkers who shuns MENSA membership, feeling that no one is capable of fully appreciating their elevated thought processes.
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