Uncle Al's Geezer Salad
Subtitle: A mixed bag of reports on overlong repair projects, smart remarks from dogs, and a whole lot of one man's decline into mental cottage cheese
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Syren Book Company
Published: October 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780929636801
Subjects: American - General; Essays; Form - Essays; Nonfiction; American Journalism; American Satire And Humor; Humor
Description: For close to 20 years, Al Sicherman wrote a hugely popular column in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Here he offers an assortment of those delightfully entertaining reports: the solution to the mystery of underwear in the gutter; tales of household and automotive repairs gone horribly wrong; observations on "increasing geezerification" and much more.
Table of contents: title: Author's Note
pagenum: xi; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xiii; title: Speak, Lucky! Or on Second Thought...
pagenum: 3; title: A Doubly Bang-Up Day
pagenum: 6; title: Up a Tree for Christmas
pagenum: 11; title: On the Cutting Edge of Economics
pagenum: 16; title: What a Tangled Web We Weave
pagenum: 21; title: How Much Is in the Glass?
pagenum: 25; title: Voyager's Message to the Stars
pagenum: 30; title: The Joke That Never Fails
pagenum: 34; title: Underneath It All, a Loss
pagenum: 38; title: Credit Where Credit Is Due
pagenum: 41; title: One Man, Two Cars
pagenum: 46; title: Outsourcing's Circle of Cutbacks
pagenum: 50; title: Floored by Flooring
pagenum: 54; title: A Waltz in Two Flats
pagenum: 60; title: Looking for Closure
pagenum: 65; title: Striking a Lucky Bargain
pagenum: 69; title: The Struggle to Embrace Change
pagenum: 73; title: Martian to a Different Drummer
pagenum: 76; title: Getting Older in Multiple Ways
pagenum: 79; title: Funnel Vision
pagenum: 83; title: Buns Not Found in the Oven
pagenum: 86; title: It's All Dog Food
pagenum: 89; title: Aspiring to Be a Big Loser
pagenum: 93; title: Top Down in the 8-Track Lane
pagenum: 96; title: How to Sink a Vacation
pagenum: 100; title: Waiting for the Perfect Moment
pagenum: 105; title: Losing the Way to the Will
pagenum: 108; title: Rollin' in the Flivver
pagenum: 115; title: Not Etching to Please
pagenum: 119; title: Soap Is Too Soon Parted
pagenum: 123; title: Leapfrog Revisited
pagenum: 126; title: Americans Sort-of in Paris
pagenum: 130; title: What Lane Is This Again? Oh, Memory!
pagenum: 134; title: Hard Charging into the Future
pagenum: 137; title: Ghosting Downhill
pagenum: 142; title: Scents and Sensibility
pagenum: 146; title: A Mudsummer Night's Dream
pagenum: 149; title: Going Door to Door
pagenum: 153; title: What's the Antimatter Now?
pagenum: 158; title: Taking Up Ropewalking
pagenum: 162; title: Beef or Chicken? Or Beans?
pagenum: 167; title: The Scent of a Guy
pagenum: 171; title: Heads Up!
pagenum: 175; title: A New Dog's Blanket Endorsement
pagenum: 178; title: Cellar Beware
pagenum: 182; title: Pledge Week for Humor
pagenum: 186; title: Running Up Your Life Expectancy
pagenum: 189; title: Fuzzy Has Cake and Eats It Too
pagenum: 193; title: Rhyme Time Not Sublime
pagenum: 197; title: Three Degrees of Cockeyed
pagenum: 204; title: Your Pre-Op Checklist
pagenum: 208; title: Fuzzy's Daytime Cereal Episode
pagenum: 212; title: Mustn't Knock Tomato Opportunity
pagenum: 216; title: Stress Test Stresses Testing
pagenum: 220; title: Look! Everywhere! It's Ted!
pagenum: 223; title: Dealing with a Bad Hobbit
pagenum: 227; title: Life on the Slippery Slope
pagenum: 232; title: Beyond the Pail
pagenum: 236; title: No Man Is an Eyelet
pagenum: 239; title: Fuzzy Gets Uncle Al Another Truck
pagenum: 242; title: It's the Ides of Tuesday
pagenum: 246; title: Brushing Up on the Supernatural
pagenum: 250; title: Sharing the Stadium Burden
pagenum: 254; title: A Yard Sale That's All Wet
pagenum: 257; title: Kipling on Credit
pagenum: 261; title: Gus Enters the Picture, Sitting on the Couch
pagenum: 265; title: Hot Pursuit of Cooling
pagenum: 270; title: The Gravity of Seasonal Change
pagenum: 275; title: One Screw Loose
pagenum: 279; title: Gus Taps into Piano Time
pagenum: 283; title: Going Full Throttle Across the Web
pagenum: 286; title: To Continue, Press 1
pagenum: 290; title: Two Waggish Tales
pagenum: 293; title: Long After Joe's Death, Grief and a Message Endure
pagenum: 297