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Death of a Prankster (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, No. 7)
"A case that Hamish Macbeth fans will relish." Booklist A Hamish Macbeth Mystery by the author of "Death of a Snob." When it comes to murder, Constable Hamish Macbeth can't see the joke. Rich, old practical joker Andrew Trent summons his kin to remote Arrat House in the dead of winter for a deathbed farewell. But when they arrive, the old coot is in perfect health, cackling at his joke and ready to torment them with others. But it turns out the joke's on Trent. As the saying goes, he who laughs last, kills first! And when Trent is murdered, Constable Macbeth must step in and solve the crime before the punchline of the next killing joke knocks him right into an early grave!.
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The Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture
One of the 1960s counterculture's most fascinating characters was Kerry Wendell Thornley -- a writer, philosopher, Zen dishwasher, enlightened prankster, and, possibly, an Oswald double with disturbing ties to the Kennedy assassination. A lifelong provocateur, Thornley was linked to many of the fringe elements of the time. He helped create the spoof religion called the Discordian Society and its tract, the Principia Discordia. He coined the term "paganism" to describe various nature religions. And he befriended Robert Anton Wilson, inspired the Illuminatus, and gave his anarchic support to the Bavarian Illuminati, a brilliant prank..
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Charlie Kaufman and Hollywood's Merry Band of Pranksters, Fabulists and Dreamers: An Excursion Into the American New Wave
Since the late 1990s, a subtle, subversive element has been at work within the staid confines of the Hollywood dream factory  Young filmmakers like Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Michel Gondry, David O. Russell, Richard Linklater, and Sofia Coppola rode in on the coattails of the independent film movement that blossomed in the early 1990s and have managed to wage an aesthetic campaign against cowardice of the imagination, much like their artistic forebears, the so-called Movie Brats—Coppola, Scorsese, De Palma, Altman, and Ashby among others—did in the 1970s. But their true pedigree can be traced back to the cinematic provocateurs of the Nouvelle Vague—such as Truffaut, Goddard, Chabrol, Rohmer, and Rivette—who, in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, liberated screens around the world with a series of films that challenged our assumptions of what the medium could offer and how stories could be told—all of them snapping with style as much as they delivered on ideas. Highly idiosyncratic yet intricately realized, accessible yet willing to overthrow the constraints of formal storytelling, surreal yet always grounded in human emotions, this new film movement captures the angst of its characters and the times in which we live, but with a wryness, imagination, earnestness, irony, and stylish wit that makes the slide into existential despair a little more amusing than it should be. .
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Dr. Pharte--the E is silent: Confessions of a Hopeless Prankster
Philip Altfeld is not Dr. Pharte. Phil Altfeld is merely a hopeless, mostly harmless and utterly hilarious prankster He learned at the feet of a master-- his own father--a prankster extraordinaire, who set his son off on a lifelong banquet of jest. Dr. Pharte - The E is Silent is one delicious slice of Altfeld's amazing life after another, beginning in his salad days in Baltimore, to the good life in Aspen, the California desert, and wherever in the world he happens to pop up. Be it an Australian mountain top, the Via Veneto, a Hollywood sound stage, or a star-studded party on the Riviera, Altfeld can turn it all on its ear with one of his off-the-cuff, off-the-wall, outside-the-box pranks. And no one--no matter how famous or infamous--is immune. When the seriousness of life weighs you down and you just need a good belly laugh, Dr. Pharte will cure your ills..
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On the Bus: The Complete Guide to the Legendary Trip of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and the Birth of the Counterculture
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Jay's Journal of Anomalies : Conjurers, Cheats, Hustlers, Hoaxsters, Pranksters, Jokesters, Imposters, Pretenders, Side-Show Showmen, Armless Calligraphers, Mechanical Marvels, Popular Entertainments
A dazzling tour through the world of singular entertainers, con men, and unusual phenomena.For the past four years, the multitalented Ricky Jay (sleight-of-hand artist, author, actor, film consultant, and scholar of the unusual) has published a unique and beautifully designed quarterly called Jay's Journal of Anomalies. Already a coveted collector's item, the complete set is gathered here for the first time. A brilliant excursion into the history of bizarre entertainments, the journal covered such subjects as dogs stealing acts from other dogs, an anthropological hoax involving the only survivors of a caste of ancient Aztec priests, and the ultimate diet: ingesting only air.In a delectably deadpan and winning style, Jay conveys his admiration and affection for the offbeat that characterized his bestselling Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women. He explains how wags since the sixteenth century have cheated at bowling; he explores the ancient relationship between conjuring and dentistry; and he chronicles the exploits of ceiling walkers and human flies. Crammed full of illustrations drawn from the author's massive personal archive, Jay's Journal of Anomalies will baffle, instruct, and, above all, delight. .
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TRICKSTERS AND PRANKSTERS. Roguery in French and German Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen ... & Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)
This volume represents a contribution to comparative scholarship in Medieval and Renaissance studies in its investigation of the ingenious diversity of roguish practices found in Medieval and Renaissance literature and its recognition of the coherent normative function of tales of tricksters and pranksters. The wide variety of works analysed, from those forming part of the established canon of texts on undergraduate degree schemes to lesser-known works, makes the volume of interest to students and researchers alike. The roguish behaviour of women, priests, foxes and outlaws and the knavery of Eulenspiegel and Panurge are used to illustrate how rituals of inversion and humiliation typical of the medieval carnival are reflected in literary accounts of trickery, and to question whether the restorative function attributed to carnival celebration is equally to be found in the intra-textual and extra-textual outcomes of trickery. This analysis is supported by studies into the trickster in mythology, sociological investigations into the role of disorder, Bakhtinian theories of carnival and the carnivalesque, and theories of black humour..
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The Find It Club and the Prankster
Rev. Terry L. Neal was born in Mercer County in western Pennsylvania. He earned his degree in psychology from Anderson University. He has pastored churches in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Florida. His graduate work has been done at the Anderson School of Theology and also Florida Atlantic University, where he took graduate classes in education. He earned his Florida certification to teach mathematics and psychology. He started two private schools, where he would entertain the students by making up stories about them. He has worked for Computer Sciences Corporation for several years, supporting the space industry in south Florida while pastoring the First Church of God of Hollywood, Florida..
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