It’s been 6 months since I posted Books I Didn’t Write Volume 1 and Volume 2. I’ve been meaning to do this again…and I probably will in the next week or two. In the meantime, here’s a few of the best from the past.
(all I did for these was load a random flickr image and then come up with a book title and cover design. unfortunately i didn’t save photo credits to the photographers from volume 1.)
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World renowned makeup artist Bryan Allain walks you through the dos and don’ts of the art of makeup. Using everyday objects like sidewalk chalk and charcoal briquettes, Bryan paints on the palette of the female face with the grace of Van Gogh and the edginess of an angry Alec Baldwin.
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Journalist Bryan Allain makes a compelling case for the silver lining to the nuclear war mushroom cloud.
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A collection of Bryan Allain’s shortest stories. Some are only 40 syllables long. Others are wordless.
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The harrowing tale of a young man raised by russian con artists in an ethyl alcohol distillery.
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What’s in that girl’s belly? Is it an 8-month old fetus or a whole lot of Amstel Light? In this visually stunning masterpiece, author/photographer Bryan Allain provides 125 pictures of round female guts for which you must answer the question: Is she pregnant…or is that a beer belly? Great as a party game! (answer key provided in the back of the book!)
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With the passion and determination of John Stossel, investigative reporter Bryan Allain rips the wings off of the bird obesity epidemic to find the truth. Are oversized birdfeeders creating a culture of gluttony in the bird kingdom? Are birdfeed manufacturers spiking their product with addictive substances? Are owls really just fat and lazy? Deadly Buffet chirps relvancy from cover to cover as the truth flies off every page and poops on your brain.
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Are spoons getting smaller these days, or are our liquids just taking up more volume? In the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell, Eric Carle, and Henry David Thoreau, author Bryan Allain takes an in-depth look into the curved eating implement named after a form of snuggling.
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Please do another one of these, they were hilarious.
Brilliant. And the artwork to go with it. I need to send my lit agent and editor friends this way
wow!
highly entertaining stuff
more please!
Okay…
That was fairly brilliant, Bryan. Color me impressed.