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order now THE PERSUASIONS---LIVE AT McCABE'S NINETEEN SONGS. 70 MINUTES OF MUSIC AND JOY. 5 SONGS NEVER ON A PERSUASIONS ALBUM.  "WE CAME OUT SMOKIN'!"---Jerry Lawson. The greatest a cappella group in American history's only live concert nightclub album. PRODUCED BY RIP RENSE AND MARC DOTEN FOR RENSART RECORDS. © 2009 Rip Rense/Rensart Records All rights reserveded. |
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SAM COOKE, FRANK ZAPPA, NAT KING COLE, KURT WEILL, THE MILLS BROTHERS, THE OAK RIDGE BOYS, ELVIS, EVEN. . .THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY. . .AND MORE. . .PERSUASIONIZED! order now |
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"Within its pages are to be found a cast of characters who breathe and move with such passion that one can only find comparisons in the writings of John Steinbeck."
---Gary L. Coffman, Retired English teacher.
"I really enjoyed the Steinbeckian feel; sort of a parallel to 'Cannery Row', the connection for me being the struggle of retaining one's integrity as a victim of the mire our culture produces."
---John Kaufman, virologist, fish pathology, Oregon State University.
© 2007 Rip Rense. All rights reserved.
A Town, A Boy, and The Sixties
Rip Rense’s lyrical, moving epic of an oppressed boy growing up in Beatles-echoing, 1960's bedroom community America.
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There was something oppressive, malignant in Charlie Bogle's idyllic world. Something he did not understand. Something that left him feeling loathed, exploited, worthless. Something that he was instructed to introduce as. . .his mother. Well, at least there were the oaks. They were outside his window at night, and in the fields he walked through on his way to school, in ratty old tennis shoes with cardboard in the soles. They were his pillars, his bulwark, his friends, his family, and it crushed the boy when he finally had to leave them. “The Oaks” is the story of Charlie's sad and heroic struggle as he grows up in Beatles-echoing, 1960’s California bedroom-community America. A miraculous, almost magical country town where lions roar like morning roosters, rockets break the late night sky, and the gigantic summer days are made of nothin'-to-do. Rense writes with grace and poignancy in this lyrical, touching novel.
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THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION---
Measured by its behavior. . .
Nobody knows what they're doing anymore, and what's more, they don't care! At last, for the first time, Rense's ROTFLOL long-running column is a fully illustrated book. You read it in the L.A. Times, and for the past seven years in The Rip Post. Now comes LTSEWH, the book. With absolutely deranged illustrations by the great JAMES FERRIGNO. . .
BAD WORDS:
THE LINGO CZAR DICTIONARY!
THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION---
Measured by its language. . .
Here it is---210 acid-dripping pages exposing rigidly conformist slang, pin-headed outbursts, 'cool' patois, abominable cliches, infantile drivel, smug rejoinders, mandatory peer-enforced buzzwords and idiot-speak that Americans are spewing from their 500-word vocabularies as their knuckles hang ever closer to the sidewalk.
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"You have more 'less than satisfying encounters'
than any three other people I know. I've
given this some thought and my conclusion is
that it is your unhappy fate to be something of
a "schmuck magnet." Unpleasant-incompetent-self-aggrandising
people enter your close orbit with greater
frequency than the rest of us."
---Bob Ballenger, Encino, CA.
© 2007 Rip Rense. All rights reserved.
THE LINGO CZAR DICTIONARY!
THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION---
Measured by its language. . .
Here it is---210 acid-dripping pages exposing rigidly conformist slang, pin-headed outbursts, 'cool' patois, abominable cliches, infantile drivel, smug rejoinders, mandatory peer-enforced buzzwords and idiot-speak that Americans are spewing from their 500-word vocabularies as their knuckles hang ever closer to the sidewalk.
Rip Rense, who has lone access to the mysterious Lingo Czar, relays The Czar's rulings with customary wit, insight, and mildly dyspeptic analysis.
YOU'VE READ THE "LINGO CZAR" COLUMNS IN THE L.A. TIMES AND RIPRENSE.COM. . .NOW 210 PAGES OF THE CZAR'S RULINGS. . .IN A BOOK.
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"One word Rip..... Fantabulous ! Thank you and just had to
get back to you... can't put it down. : ) "---John Melenko, CA.
"Don't take it the wrong way but LTSEWH is a great bathroom book."
---Fred
Hemmer, FLA.
© 2007 Rip Rense. All rights reserved.
THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION---
aka Less Than Satisfying Encounters with Humanity! Nobody knows what they're doing anymore, and what's more, they don't care! At last, for the first time, Rense's ROTFLOL long-running column is a fully illustrated book! You read it in the L.A. Times, and for the past seven years in The Rip Post. Now comes LTSEWH, the book! With absolutely deranged illustrations by the great JAMES FERRIGNO. . .
Maybe it was the Starbucks guy who asked me if I wanted any water in my coffee. Maybe it was the gorgeous mother who lifted her blouse in a Whole Foods Market to allow her three-year-old to play squeezey-slappy with her opulent breasts. Maybe it was the guy talking loudly about circumcision at the next table, over spaghetti marinara. Maybe it was the caffeinated doofus who yelled, "Daughters? Daughters are cool!" In the end, Rense was left with no choice but to write about these. . .
YOU'VE READ LTSEWH COLUMNS IN THE L.A. TIMES AND RIPRENSE.COM. . .NOW 230 PAGES OF 'EM. . .IN A BOOK. (You remember what books are, don't you?)
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