Bøger af Jim Mullen

Jim Mullen has been writing "The Village Idiot," a weekly column syndicated in 600 newspapers around the country for the past ten years. "Now in Paperback!" is a selected collection of those columns including fan favorites, "The First Thanksgiving Family Feud" and his take on the James Bond myth in "Learner's Permit to Kill." Mr. Mullen's book "It Takes A Village Idiot" was the runner-up for the 2001 Thurber Prize for American Humor and his spoof of baby memory books, "Baby's First Tattoo," is in its 15th printing.

The mash-up of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's that has become "the Holiday Season" is, without doubt, the most unpleasant time of the year to travel, to shop, to visit the relatives. No wonder so many people suffer the Holiday Blues, as we have turned formerly happy festivals into tension conventions, worrying about missed flights, gift anxiety (did I spend too much? Not enough?) and entertaining the way of high-priced celebrity chefs. This book skewers it all and with high humor and good fun asks us to take the pressure off the holidays and make them fun again.

"How to Lose Money in Your Spare Time at Home" is the second collection of stories from syndicated newspaper columnist Jim Mullen. It contains over forty of his best columns including fan favorites "Emailing Mr. Right" on computer dating, "Man's Best Friend" on rowdy pets, "Let Me Hear Your Body Talk" on the pleasures of having a colonoscopy and "Just for (Insecure) Men" on some well-advertised hair care products. "How to Lose Money in Your Spare Time at Home" is the follow-up to his first collection of columns which is called "Now In Paperback!"

With greatly varying weather, inhospitable flora and fauna, and a hardscrabble citizenry that has learned to endure and thrive, Texas is the romantic stuff of legends. Driving a pasture road at sunrise or sundown is the best time to appreciate it. Midday it may be 110 degrees, a time when man is the only animal dumb enough to be out. But when the sun is waxing or waning, the abundant wildlife begins to stir, either heading out to feed or heading for daytime shade. Colors that were bleached in direct sunlight become vivid, and the breeze that dehydrates you at noon carries a bit of moisture and the musty smell of a fecund ecology.It is this complex living puzzle that draws its human inhabitants. The romance and the belief that this land will produce abundantly for whoever has the gumption to take it on, declares Jim Mullen, is why people buy property here. In Finding, Buying, and Developing a South Texas Ranch, Mullen outlines how to do exactly that, exposing the prospective ranch buyer to the basic principles of buying and developing rural land in this great state.