Bizarrism Vol 1

Author : Chris Mikul
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781909394339

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Bizarrism Vol 1 by Chris Mikul Pdf

Bizarrism is a collection of strange-but-true tales, featuring a grand parade of eccentrics, visionaries, crackpots, cult leaders, artists, theorists and outsiders of every stripe. First published in 1999, this new, fully revised and expanded edition revisits a host of unique individuals, including: William Chidley, who believed that, when it comes to sex, we’ve all been making a terrible mistake; Arthur Cravan, who combined poetry with boxing; Slim Gaillard, jazz singer and dispenser of ‘vout’; William Lindsay Gresham, author of the classic noir novel Nightmare Alley; Rosaleen Norton, Australia’s most notorious witch; Harry Crosby, poet, sun worshipper and the best looking corpse of 1929; Reginal Levgiac, author of the mysterious pamphlet Drugs Virus Germs. In writing their stories, Mikul does not judge, but instead celebrates these characters for their fabulous weirdness. For him, they are the “beacons of shining if erratic brilliance in a world of sensible conformity”. The world would be a poorer place without them.

Author : Chris Mikul
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Zines
ISBN : OCLC:1344201901

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Bizarrism No. 8 by Chris Mikul Pdf

Author : Chris Mikul
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781909394490

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Bizarrism II by Chris Mikul Pdf

Bizarrism II collects further tales of high weirdness from around the world, including: • The curious death of Sherlock Holmes scholar Richard Lancelyn Green. • Baroness Eloise de Bosquet and the mystery of Floreana • The strange odyssey of William Seabrook – writer, adventurer, cannibal. • JLB Smith’s obsessive search for the coelacanth. • The cult that promised eternal life. • The unexpectedly appalling story of Madalyn Murray O’Hair and the American Atheists. • Leonard Lawson – comic book artist and killer. • Padre Pio, Italy’s celebrity stigmatic. • The strange fate of Napoleon’s penis and other illustrious male members. • Ferdinand Sauerbruch – the senile surgeon. • Murder and mayhem among the Hare Krishnas. • The enduring enigma of ‘Somerton Man’. Mikul brings these stories to life in meticulously researched accounts that will amuse, appal and intrigue, and leave you marvelling at the infinite strangeness of human beings.

Author : Chris Mikul
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781909394711

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My Favourite Dictators by Chris Mikul Pdf

“I’m personally against seeing my pictures and statues in the streets, but it’s what the people want.” — Saparmurat Niyazov, dictator of Turkmenistan Dictators may be among the worst people in history, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t laugh at them. In My Favourite Dictators, Chris Mikul tells the stories of eleven of the twentieth century’s most colourful and reviled human beings, including Benito Mussolini, Mao Zedong, Muammar Gaddafi, Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong-il. In each case, he examines the political backgrounds to their rise to power and eventual downfall, but the focus here is on the personalities, peculiarities and private lives of these very strange men. You’ll be amazed and appalled by their effortless cruelties, voracious sexual appetites, absurd personality cults, ostentatious uniforms, promotion of dreadful art and pretensions to being great writers – not to mention their terrible taste in interior decoration.

Author : Chris Mikul
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1909394327

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Bizarrism by Chris Mikul Pdf

Bizarrism is a collection of strange-but-true tales, featuring a grand parade of eccentrics, visionaries, crackpots, cult leaders, artists, theorists and outsiders of every stripe. First published in 1999, this new, fully revised and expanded edition revisits a host of unique individuals, including: - William Chidley, who believed that, when it comes to sex, we've all been making a terrible mistake - Arthur Cravan, who combined poetry with boxing - Slim Gaillard, jazz singer and dispenser of 'vout' - William Lindsay Gresham, author of the classic noir novel Nightmare Alley - Rosaleen Norton, Australia's most notorious witch - Harry Crosby, poet, sun worshipper and the best looking corpse of 1929 - Reginal Levgiac, author of the mysterious pamphlet Drugs Virus Germs.

Author : Ralph Trevor
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781605439501

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Invitation to Murder by Ralph Trevor Pdf

Trade paperback. John Vance doesnÕt have a care in the world...except, perhaps, seeing his daughter Pamela married to the right man. Father and daughter live happily at Blacon Grange until one day the post brings a letter from an anonymous writer directing Vance to kill one Martin Stone - a man of dubious character with whom Vance had once been associated. Vance decides to ignore the ludicrous missive. But a phone Õcall received shortly afterwards from Martin Stone leads John Vance into dangerous waters... The ensuing case is investigated by Curtis Burke of Scotland Yard, and Inspector Burke and his men must use all of their deductive skill to unravel a conspiracy whose roots go back to Mexico. ÔRalph TrevorÕ was the pseudonym used by James Reginald Wilmot for his numerous mystery novels. He also wrote romances under the pseudonym ÔFrances StewartÕ.

Author : E. Charles Vivian
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781605439433

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Accessory After by E. Charles Vivian Pdf

Author : Ambrose Pratt
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781605439563

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The Living Mummy tpb by Ambrose Pratt Pdf

Trade paperback. Dr. Pinsent is translating hieroglyphics in Egypt when he meets up with Sir Robert Ottley, who is searching for the tomb and mummy of the ancient Egyptian priest Ptahmes. Pinsent is intrigued by the excavation - but he is even more fascinated by OttleyÕs daughter, May, who is assisting her father. When the sarcophagus of Ptahmes is unearthed and opened, a bizarre series of events begins to unfold. Pinsent is drawn into the mysterious phenomena, which swiftly develop into something more sinister. Only when Pinsent and the Ottleys return to London do matters take a devilishly threatening turn. Ambrose Pratt (1874Ð1944) was a prolific Australian journalist and author of novels and non-fiction. Later in life Pratt was an outspoken opponent of the White-Australia Policy. His many activities included advocating the inclusion of Australian fauna at Melbourne Zoo; he later became vice-president of the Zoological Society of Victoria.

Author : Chris Mikul
Publisher : Headpress
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Alternative lifestyles
ISBN : 1900486067

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Bizarrism by Chris Mikul Pdf

A funny and entertaining look at outlandish ideas, wacky religious cults and the extremes of human beliefs, both in Australia and overseas. It is a celebration of strange and eccentric lives, with an emphasis on unsung Australian eccentrics, bringing together the best ten years of "Bizarrism" magazine.

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000078378498

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Bukowski Unleashed! by Charles Bukowski Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Death in mass media
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113356526

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Headpress by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jack Stevenson
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781900486958

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Beneath Contempt & Happy To Be There by Jack Stevenson Pdf

The full, amazing sordid, riches to rags story of self-made sultan of Times Square, Al Goldstein ruled over his mythic realm of sin and corruption for decades, chronicling its forbidden pleasures in the pages of his trailblazing sex paper Screw. The overweight cab driver and welfare recipient and became the most outspoken figurehead of the sex revolution, a multi-millionaire and tireless opponent of all things establishment. He had sex with the world’s most famous porn starlets, rubbed elbows with Henry Miller and Phillip Roth, attended celebrity orgies with Gay Talese and Hugh Hefner, and then lost it all, morphing into America’s most famous homeless drifter of the new millennium. He threw his heart, soul and fortune into a series of bruising First Amendment battles and became a folk hero to the disgruntled masses, giving the finger to the world as his ex-wives and battles drained him, America’s last angry dirty old man.

Author : Chris Mikul
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781605430836

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Tales of the Macabre and Ordinary by Chris Mikul Pdf

Author : Liz Farrelly
Publisher : Booth-Clibborn
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001-10
Category : Design
ISBN : UOM:39015048319043

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Zines by Liz Farrelly Pdf

Graphic art from zines, small press and independant publications.

Author : Mick Farren
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781909394001

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Elvis Died For Somebody's Sins But Not Mine by Mick Farren Pdf

You cannot believe a word Mick Farren tells you!” John Lydon A literary life railing against the machine, in the company of Johnny Cash, Frank Zappa, Chuck Berry and more. Mick Farren has spent more than 4 decades in the thick of the culture wars as a commentator, activist, essayist, poet, performer, and rebel with multiple causes. A founding figure of the 60s underground press, he careered on through the London birth pangs of punk, the intoxicated madness of Lower Manhattan under Ronald Reagan, earthquakes and urban insurrection in LA. Here you'll meet Frank Zappa, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry and Gore Vidal, and steam open correspondence between the author and Pete Townshend.