Something I said? : innuendo and out the other / Michael Feldman ; illustrations by John Sieger ; music CD by Michael Feldman and John Sieger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feldman, Michael, 1949-

Contributor:

Sieger, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American wit and humor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, Terrace Books, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What we have here is another mighty slim volume from Michael Feldman, best known (when known at all) for his public radio show "Whad'ya Know" (sic). Feldman, who spouts off about things he knows "not much" about weekly, here writes them down: ·how to get your own radio show and what you can do with it once you do ·paranoia ·marriage (or as Feldman likes to refer to it, "a long-term bad relationship") ·Hitler · SUVs ·child-rearing (although it sounds like it's the author who is being reared) ·a number of short pieces on places he and his crew have visited for their "remote possibilities" ·more references to "gentiles" than absolutely necessary (seems to be an issue for Feldman, although he is tickledwiththe notion that, to a Mormon, he is one) ·some attempts to misrepresent scientific or social research for humorous purposes ·many personal revelations that prove the examined life is not necessarily worth living either ·and pages and pages of fluff. Mr. Feldman has not been compared, to our knowledge, to S. J. Perlman. But here is some of what Michael Feldman says in Something I Said: "The paranoid no longer is: paranoia has outlived its usefulness when everybody is out to get us.""Take the phrase 'no problem': I can use it, although it is the very opposite of my two-word world view ('Nothing works')." "Whatever latitude beauty may have in the eye of the beholder, funny is not readily apparent to all, and, who knows, they may be right. More importantly, they may be bigger."Includes a music CD by Michael Feldman and John Sieger.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: A House of a Guy's Own

A House of a Guy's Own

A Walk on the Mild Side

Feldman's Best Friend

Gentile Like Me

Apologia pro Vita Herring

Mad Mike

The Nondescript Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Italian Vacation

Part II: Breeding in Captivity

Leave No Parent Behind

Runaway

Is This My Day On?

My Daughter Says Hello

Nora Has a Problem

Kinder, Not Gentler, Garten

The Guinness Method

My Religious Instruction

Sometimes a Great Ape

Home Alone

Jews Close Lower in Light Trading

Don't Kazaa for Me, Argentina

A Death in the Family

Freaky Weeky

Cassandra

My Parents Smoke Pot

Part III: A Personality

Fame ( I'm Gonna Live Forever)

How to Get into Radio

Whad'ya Know?

Michael Feldman Discovered America In...

Fan Base

This Is Television

Part IV: Because I Live Here

Coin of Our Realm

The Midwest

Moo-Yah!

Minnesota Man Fakes Death

(Still) One Big Individual

Mourning Becomes DuWayne

Mad-Is-One

Part V: Feldmanity

My Manhood

1965

Foundling, at Fifty

A Feldman Is

This Far Apart

Anglos in America

Part VI: I Was Just Thinking

Paranoid's Paradise

A Little Hitler

Barney Google

Letters from the Milky Way

Baby Boomers Go Boom!

What Crisis?

Why I've Got a Loverly Bunch of Coconuts

My Life, The Musical

Fathers and Sons

Making the World Safe for -Ocracy

The Moving Mouth, Having Spoke, Moves On

Afterword.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612269585

9781282269583

1282269585

9780299202736

0299202739

OCLC:

164310903