Saint Benedict on the Freeway: A Rule of Life for the 21st Century

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"How can we heal the rift between our daily lives and the sacred? How can we live a life capable of hearing "the still small voice" of God while experiencing the speed and sensory overload of modern life? This book is Ware's answer to these questions. She acknowledges that others have addressed the questions; on the one hand there are books which have significant depth but speak in academic or "in-group" language and provide little help adapting these insights to everyday life. On the other hand, there are practical "how-to" exercises which assist in very particular spiritual experiences but which do not offer integrated, sustainable, life-changing patterns. St. Benedict on the Freeway fills this gap. It "translates into twenty-first century life spiritually formative practices worked out in the past, creatively adapting those disciplines to contemporary daily life." This adaptation is the heart of Ware's book. She attempts first to draw attention to our own awareness of God. She discusses how a "Rule" functioned for Benedict's time, and how it can function for us as a liberating reminder of God instead of another repressive and burdensome taskmaster. Ware also asks how the hours of prayer--vigils, lauds, prime, terce, sext, none, vespers, compline--can increase our spiritual awareness even if our 'community' does not stop for prayer at designated times during the day. And, Ware explores prayer in dimensions beyond the spoken word.

Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America

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My faith in a loving God is restored
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Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America
Chris Hedges
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Why should all Americans -not just Christians and Jews -- care about the Ten Commandments? Chris Hedges, a former foreign correspondent for the New York Times and Harvard Divinity School graduate, believes that the commandments keep us from committing evil. They hold our communities together. "They lead us to love, the essence of life," he writes.

Adapted from his series of articles for the New York Times comes these thoughtful essays on why we need these ancient laws -- and what happens when we abandon them. A Phish band groupie provides a springboard for a discussion of idolatry. A Long Island whiskey bar becomes a laboratory for understanding "You shall not bear false witness." Honoring the Sabbath, he shows through the observances of one busy family, may be the antidote to popular culture. The story of the havoc wreaked on one child's life vividly illustrates the reason for the commandment, "You shall not commit adultery." Throughout his essays, he deftly weaves his own experiences into the narrative, as well as references from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's classic book on good and evil, The Brothers Karamazov.

Hedges believes that the commandments hold out to us the possibility of love -- and love means living for others. The commandments are guideposts that bring us back to the right path, he writes. They call us to sacrifice. Compellingly, he urges us to abandon the culture of self; to live "not by exalting our life but by being willing to lose it." --Cindy Crosby

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In Losing Moses on the Freeway, Chris Hedges, veteran war correspondent and author of the bestselling War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, delivers an impassioned, eloquent call to heed the wisdom of the 10 Commandments. Celebrated for his courageous reporting on the crucial issues of our time, Hedges, who graduated from seminary at Harvard Divinity School, explores the challenge of living according to these moral precepts we have tried to follow, often unsuccessfully, for the past 6,000 years. The commandments, he writes, do not save us from evil. Instead they save us from committing evil.

Inspired by unyielding faith, rigorous moral scrutiny, and a fierce sense of social responsibility, Hedges offers a breathtaking meditation on modern life. Losing Moses on the Freeway illustrates how the commandments usually choose us -- and how we are rarely able to choose them. We cannot protect ourselves from theft, greed, adultery, or envy, nor from the impulses that lead us to commit evil acts. In honoring the commandments, we free ourselves from self-worship and are called back to the healing solidarity of community. It is in the self-sacrifice championed by the commandments that integrity, commitment, and, finally, love are made possible.

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"The 10 Commandments -- the laws given to Moses by God -- are beyond the scope of human law. They are rules meant to hold us together but, when dishonored, they lead to discord and violence. In this fierce, articulate narrative, Hedges, who graduated from seminary at Harvard Divinity School, looks through the lens of each commandment to examine the moral ruin of American society. With urgency and passion, he challenges readers to take a hard look at the disconnect between their supposed values and the shallow, self-absorbed lives many people actually lead. Taking examples from his personal life and twenty years of reporting, Hedges explores one commandment at a time, each through a particular social group. With each story, he reveals the universal nature of personal suffering, discovery, and redemption -- and explores the laws that we have tried to follow, often unsuccessfully, for the past 6,000 years. "

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Inspirational.......2007-05-02

Chris Hedges breathes new life into the Ten Commandments. Devoting a chapter to each commandment, he relates them to modern life in a highly provocative manner outside the context of religion. Each chapter is a short story in itself, usually with him as the protagonist, imbuing them with a memoir-like quality except for an overabundance of musing, which is where his real power lies. He speaks with great passion from a keen intellect hewn from experience and religious scholarship.

The Family: Honor your father and your mother, was my most favorite chapter recounting a speech he delivered in May 2003 to the graduating class of Rockford College. It was a time when the majority of Americans still supported the Iraq War, when most believed in its mission, shortly after a media blitz with President Bush pictured standing on an aircraft carrier claiming victory behind a banner that read "Mission Accomplished" (incidentally, today is its fourth-year anniversary). Chris Hedges inflamed many that day with caustic words highly critical of the wisdom behind our invasion of Iraq, accurately predicting a future that has become reality.

I admire this man and I won't be satisfied until I've read all of his books.

My faith in a loving God is restored.......2007-03-12

Chris, your books have given me words to express my frustration with the way some people understand God. I am renewed by knowing that the God I love is not the God so often portrayed by those who want to control us through a misguided interpretation of His word in the bible. It also gives me new strength to love and tolerate those who are misguided, and to understand and forgive myself when I have not been loving and compassionate. Thank you for this wonderful book.

Losing Moses on the Freeway.......2007-03-08

It is a very stimulating read. It makes you take a look at the Ten Commandments from a different perspective. If you have become complacent or take your faith to routinely, a must read to get you fired up again about what you believe.

ancient wisdom renewed.......2007-01-18

I suspect that for many people in our post-modern culture, the 10 Commandments evoke thoughts of moralizing television evangelists, perhaps disbelief that anyone would devote themselves to such archaic strictures, or, more commonly, sheer ignorance. In any case, that would be to our great peril, argues Chris Hedges, author of War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002).

Hedges brings a remarkable life story and degree of passion to his story-telling about these most famous Ten Words--mystery, idols, lying, sabbath, family, murder, adultery, theft, envy, greed and, in an epilogue, love. As a pastor's kid, he grew up in rural upstate New York, where his father was a Presbyterian pastor. Five years at an elite boarding school, the loneliness of his childhood, left him with "a deep hostility to authority and a visceral distaste for the snobbery of the 'well-born.'" Six days after graduating from Colgate University he began a two year stint as a pastor in the violent ghetto of Roxbury in metro Boston, an experience so unsettling that it provoked him to leave the church and seminary. After a year in South America he completed his divinity degree at Harvard, though not without caustic opinions about liberal professors who romanticized the poor whom they had never met, and the lectures which he experienced as "intellectual shell games." In a prescient understatement his father remarked to him that he was "ordained to write," and so he did, as an award-winning war correspondent in some 50 countries over 20 years.

Hedges has not written an exegetical or even theological treatise about the 10 Commandments, but rather existential reflections on them rooted in first person life experiences. He is at his best as an unvarnished prophet who unmasks the idolatries we so readily worship--the state, nation, especially in its glorification of war and legitimation (even sacralization) of violence, race, religion, ethnicity, gender, and class. At a graduation speech that he delivered at Rockford College in May 2003 the audience booed him from the stage for his critical remarks about the Iraq war. Such is the prophet's welcome. His chapter on murder recounts the tortured conscience of an Episcopal priest who estimates that he killed 300 people as a soldier in the Vietnam War. For theft he explores the breadth and depth of corporate greed through the experience of R. Foster Winans, a writer for the Wall Street Journal.

All of us struggle for moral integrity and personal authenticity, and Hedges by no means excludes himself. "The darkness I discovered in Roxbury was my darkness." No one is immune from corrosive impulses. But to flaunt the moral grammar of the universe is to court spiritual, emotional and psychological death. Hedges has experienced enough to know when and how that happens, whether in a bar in Sarajevo or a gleaming skyscraper office in Manhattan. The commandments save us from false covenants and idols that promise so much and deliver so little. In honoring the commandments, we honor the sanctity of life, the power of love, and their function to bind us together in life-affirming community.

Read this book........2006-11-04

No matter what your religious background, you should read this book. It has influenced my thinking about ethics and morality more than any book in my recent memory. And if you are a person of faith, it is required reading.

Little House on the Freeway: Help for the Hurried Home

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Worthwhile Insights
Take Time to Read this One!

Little House on the Freeway: Help for the Hurried Home
Tim Kimmel
Manufacturer: Multnomah
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ASIN: 0880706287
Release Date: 1994-02-24

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More than 300,000 copies in print! Enjoy learning how to maintain true priorities and restore calmness to marriage, family life, your relationship with God, and the workplace. Includes individual/group study guide.

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Worthwhile Insights.......2004-06-09

This book addresses the vast majority of American families today that are rushed, rushed and rushed some more. With parents and kids alike trying to cram more and more activities into an already-crowded schedule, this volume is a God-send. The message that families should focus on the eternal rather than the temporal is communicated in relevant and realistic ways.

If you don't have time to read a book on this subject, then you need to TAKE the time! This title is well-worth the small investment of money and time required for the reading.

Take Time to Read this One!.......2001-04-13

Hurry up and wait! The theme for our world. Everyone seems to be so intensely busy. Never enough time for the real things we want to do.

This book will help. It won't be cure-all. But it is great start.

God wants His children to have rest, rest for our bodies, souls and minds. Rest from anxiety, etc., so at the heart is our rest in Christ.

From this, Kimmel proceeds to apply it to relationships, work, children, suffering, forgiveness, etc.

Fun read, but so relevant and applicable.

Biker Billy's Freeway-A-Fire Cookbook: Life's Too Short to Eat Dull Food
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Outstanding recipes

Veg Cooking That I Love!

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Biker Billy's Freeway-A-Fire Cookbook: Life's Too Short to Eat Dull Food
Bill Hufnagle
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Biker Billy Cooks With Fire: Robust Recipes from America's Most Outrageous Television Chef

ASIN: 0688168221

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Sizzle your palate with Biker Billy's chile-fueled vegetarian meals

Every week, thousands of fans tune in to his public-access cable show, Biker Billy Cooks with Fire, to watch Billy roar around the kitchen in his black T-shirt and shades, masterfully throwing together tantalizing recipes. His first book, Biker Billy Cooks with Fire, hit the bookshelves, luring legions of loyal Biker Billy fans into their kitchens. Now, in his second book, Billy invites us to jump on the bike again with more than 150 robust vegetarian recipes loaded with fire!

Whether it's from smoky chipotle peppers or blooming hot habaneros, you will feel the heat with killer starters such as Murderous Minestrone Soup, Nuclear Potato Salad, and Lucifer's Angelic Egg Salad. Need some spice for your main course? Try Hollering Chipotle Pockets, Atomic Eggplant Submarine, Rowdy Red Rice, or Mean Bean Meatballs. How about a side dish to make your tastebuds zing? Time for Devilish Pumpkin Fries, Tortured Tomatoes, or Twisted Biscuits. After all the heat, finish off your meal with sinful Peanut Purgatory Pie or scrumptious Chocolate Killer Cookies. Biker Billy's Freeway-a-Fire Cookbook offers recipes like these and many more for devoted chileheads everywhere!

Rounding out this unique cookbook are guidelines to growing, buying, handling, and cooking with the hot peppers that make these recipes burn. If you love hot and spicy food, come take a ride with Biker Billy! This is food to make you feel alive!Every week, thousands of fans tune in to his public-access cable show, Biker Billy Cooks with Fire, to watch Billy roar around the kitchen in his black T-shirt and shades, masterfully throwing together tantalizing recipes. His first book, Biker Billy Cooks with Fire, hit the bookshelves, luring legions of loyal Biker Billy fans into their kitchens. Now, in his second book, Billy invites us to jump on the bike again with more than 150 robust vegetarian recipes loaded with fire!

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Outstanding recipes.......2007-07-05

This book is packed with great recipes, even if you want to cut back or omit the ingredients that make them hot (but really, who wants to do that!). Also, many choices for vegans.

Veg Cooking That I Love!.......2003-01-19

I was brought up on 'real food' (meat and potatoes), so when I started to go veg, I ran into a problem where I didn't like what's normally considered vegetarian. I began to crave food with real substance and flavor. Browsing through my favorite bookstore one day, I came across Biker Billy's cookbook and was thrilled. I was immediately attracted by the title, I mean, a veg biker? How could I go wrong?!
I've been using recipes from this book for four years now and love it. I have a young son, so I sometimes adjust the spice and fire to a level he can tolerate. I even cook for meat-eaters from this book and no one ever misses the meat!
Two thumbs up - love ya Biker Billy!

Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Hot! Hot! Hot!.......2001-07-03

Bill Hufnagle. Burly biker. Fiery food lover. Cookbook author. Vegetarian. You might think you just fell down the rabbit hole, but after tasting his creations you`d know everything was going to be all right. His tongue-in-cheek cookbook will satisfy anyone who loves spicy foods, and vegetarians who want a change.

If you like spicy or downright hot foods, you'll get a kick out of this cookbook (pun intended). Flavors are bold and the body of recipes varied. Of course you'll find the standard hot items like stuffed jalapeno peppers and chili pie but there are lots of surprises to be found here as well.

For pasta fans, try "Mean Bean Meatballs" on top of your next plate of spaghetti. Vegetarians should try "Scrambled Beyond Belief", which uses extra-firm bean curd and chipotle peppers, for breakfast. Need an exciting side dish? Make "Devilish Pumpkin Fries" and watch everyone's eyes light up.

One of my most favorite recipes from this cookbook that I've made many times since, with and without the fire, are his "Chocolate Killer Cookies". This is a great and easy to prepare chocolate cookie recipe. I've made them with white chocolate chips as called for but found my favorite way is to use peanut butter chips instead. The recipe only makes 24 cookies and they will not last long. When using the cayenne pepper, they remind me of very good quality ginger snaps. Just enough bite to make your mouth tingle but not enough to make you stop eating.

For such an extraordinary cookbook it's a shame that there is no measurement given for how hot a recipe is. Something as simple as giving a mild, medium, or real hot rating for each recipe would be a major help. "Righteous Rotelle" had enough heat to make you sweat, while "Chipotle Cheese Soup" was just smoky and belly warming.

When making a few recipes I needed to make a few adjustments, which could be due to bad testing or differences in equipment. I shortened the boiling time for the asparagus in "Asparagus a la Dante" as in my first attempt they came out a bit limp after they where fried. Regardless, they were addictive.

I thoroughly enjoyed this cookbook regardless of a few annoyances and can hardly wait to try other recipes. Tonight though, I'm making more cookies!

H*llfire and Salivation.......2000-04-05

One taste of Biker Billy's smoky "Pita Pockets in Pain" and I'm singing in his choir...

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Have a Nice Trip!.......2000-06-24

This book was well organized with accurate and easy-to-read maps. I highly recommend it to anyone seeking an alternative to freeway travel. Some of the alternate routes had roads not usually shown on maps. Many of the routes have yet to be discovered by the masses and are consequently free of traffic. I intend to refer to this book again and again since I am a classic car owner who prefers to avoid the freeway whenever possible.

Fabian Freeway High Road to Socialism in the U.S.A

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A must read for anyone who wonders "how did we get here?"

Fabian Freeway High Road to Socialism in the U.S.A
R. Martin
Manufacturer: Western Islands
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0882792091

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A must read for anyone who wonders "how did we get here?".......2006-01-21

Before I believe a source, I check into their history. So it is with the Fabian Society.

Organized in 1884, founding members included the daughter of Karl Marx - the father of communism and its sibling offshoots. Obscure history (by that I mean facts you have to dig and hunt for) has been a hobby of mine for about 20 years. I find the truth to be stranger than fiction, and the long trail of the Fabian Society (and its successful policy of "penetrate and permeate") is truly incredible. Like a seed, an idea well planted will grow on its own after a bit of nurturing. So it is with Fabian Socialism. They have shaped so much of the way the world is, and few realize it.

One recent fact: The Fabian Society acquired - and sealed - the archives of Eric Blair (better known as "1984" author George Orwell) when his wife died some years ago. Orwell became disenchanted with the Fabian Society and it is now thought his book was really aimed at the kind of world he believed the Fabian Society would achieve.

As one source put it "A careful review of the literary evidence reveals that he was aiming at the period immediately following the year 2000 but wanted to memorialize the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Fabian Society." -AND- "I once inquired through a literary agent who was a friend of Sonia Orwell, the writer's second wife, whether 1984 might be a satirical polemic directed at the Fabians. She giggled nervously and remarked that perhaps that was right. And the Fabian Society once more has catapulted itself into the picture because, upon the death of Sonia Orwell, rights to George's estate fell under control of -- the Fabian Society. According to representatives of HarperCollins, the Fabians will be in control of the 1984 copyright and name through the year 2025 and will do their best to block unauthorized investigative research about Orwell's anti-socialist works." -AND- "The Fabian logo was the turtle, not the hare. Fabians believed they could be successful in taking over national governments incrementally even if it took 100 years. So why wouldn't Orwell take them at their word?"

This is just the tip of the iceberg, but you'll have to dig up the rest for yourself. My best sources were old books. Sometimes it would be tidbits, like one fascinating paragraph I found in a 1938 History textbook. The paragraph stated "On their honeymoon, Eleanor Roosevelt took her husband Franklin Delano Roosevelt to visit her old friends, Sydney and Beatrice Webb" Fact is, the Webb's were the main backbone of the Fabian Society from its beginning. So here we have an early socialist influence on an American president before he came to office. Tell me, where will you find that interesting item in today's history?

Sometimes it would be full books, like "Fabian Freeway" by Rose Martin - a former Fabian. This is the book that got me started, and it is an awesome place to start. Sometimes I find it hard to accept some of her allegations, but she was a member and knows the inside facts...

So, if you ever wonder "How did we get here", do the research. You'll be glad you did.

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Fantastic!

Freeway of Love
Hargrave and Assoc. Staff
Manufacturer: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
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Binding: Paperback

Let Me See Your Body Talk
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Fantastic!.......2000-03-27

Jan Hargrave explains the complex world of body-language reading. Would it not be great if we could all look at the way a person moves and tell if he/she is attracted to us? Think of the last time you met someone you really liked. Now think of how nerve-racking it was to ask this person out because you were not able to read his/her mind. With Jan Hargrave's book, you will be able to read his/her mind by simply looking at their body language. I personally had a blast reading this book and would recommend it to everyone!

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Interesting and captivating
..... And one duck egg!
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Harpo Speaks! And speaks, he does!
A sweet spirit speaks

Harpo speaks! (Freeway Press ; FP 2070)
Harpo Marx
Manufacturer: Freeway Press
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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To Marx Brothers fans who have yet to read this book: Put it off as long as you can, because once you are finished, you will wish you could read it again for the first time. Harpo's life was interesting in itself, but it also frequently intersected with the lives of other fascinating people, most notably his own brothers and drama critic Alexander Woolcott. Marx also was part of the legendary Algonquin Round Table; he's got plenty to say about that. Wait'll you hear about what it means to "throw a Gookie." You'll never be able to watch a Marx Brothers movie again without looking for the Gookie!

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Interesting and captivating.......2007-05-24

What a great look into an interesting life of the silent one. I read it twice!!

..... And one duck egg!.......2007-05-16

This book should be standard issue to every human being who wants to know what a well-lived life consists of! What an extraordinary person graces us with the story of his life and a look at the lives of his famous family members! Told with such engaging warmth, Harpo's story continually challanges us to wake up and realize that, like the author, it isn't so much whether you're sleeping in a palace or a harp case...eating caviar or turnip soup...that determines what your life is worth and how fulfilled you are. Nearly indescribable in its charm, this is a books to be read again and again.

Reader Speaks on "Harpo Speaks" Autobiography.......2007-03-31

This gem of a book spotlights the childhood years and adult life of legendary harpist and comedian, Harpo Marx. Having read many of Groucho's books, which are often "tongue in cheek," I find it refreshing to read a sincere, thoughtful account by and about Harpo. A sweeter man, totally in love with life, you will not find in any book. The narrative is engaging and offers a glimpse not only of the great vaudeville comedian turned film entertainer, but also of the history of vaudeville, New York City in the late 1800s/early 1900s, the New York intellectual/art scene, and more. Read the book, and then pop into the DVD player a Marx Brothers movie to view a Harpo performance on harp. Harpo is unforgettable.

Harpo Speaks! And speaks, he does!.......2007-02-07

One of the best books I've ever read, and that is saying something because I have never read a nonfiction book cover to cover in my life, and I laughed my way through this one easily enough. Not only is it entertaining and funny to boot, but it tells the evolution of the trade mark costume of Harpo, sheds light on the real Marx brothers, tells the story of his harp fasination, and reveals the story of the funny face he makes when he puffs out his cheeks, crosses his eyes, and sticks out his tongue a little (it's called a "Gookies"). Harpo wrote one heck of a book when he wrote this, and it reads quickly, at least, it did for me.

If you have any interest in the Marx Brothers at all, this is the book for you!

A sweet spirit speaks.......2007-01-13

I'm not sure what the ingredients are to this man's alchemy--parts humility, gentleness, astute observation unclogged with snooty education, and complete anarchy, the kind that brings down goverments--but I've never had such an intense, wistful desire to have known somebody in my life. This book gets less than five stars merely because the style of "little Arthur Marx's" collaborator (I'm assuming) can get so old-tyme movie magazine/Hedda Hopper/name-dropper that it's painful.

But, barring the ocassional style snaffu, Harpo's sweet nature comes out almost at every turn. And thrillingly, every name he drops is huge. Kaufmann, Parker, Ruth Gordon, Rachmanninoff, Rimsky-Korsikov, Hearst et Davies, the bizarre and brilliant Oscar Levant...on and on and on. The section on Levant alone would have made a delicious book.

"I got the impression when I was little", writes his son, Bill, "That vaudeville was this marvelous, mythical kingdom where fathers and uncles came from". Harpo and his brothers grew up poor, hungry and Jewish in fin de siècle New York's upper East Side. He writes of his mother's dream for her five boys--the stage, a ticket out of the slums and poverty--and what happened when they finally hit it big after years of dives and buggy flophouse beds. Vaudeville itself is one the main characters of the book.

As is the giant personality of Alexander Woollcott, his closest and oldest friend. If I understand this correctly, Woollcott and Marx and the rest of the Algonquins pranked each other for almost twenty years.
Their gags crossed continents and oceans. Their summer together on the Riviera is one of the most loony periods of his life--flashing George Bernard Shaw, crashing millionairess' cotillions, being seduced by stars into...reading them comics. I swear this is much funnier than I'm telling it, and more impressive. France would never be the same.

Neither, oddly, would Russia, which he visited in the early thirties, just when the starvation, murder and purges were gearing up full blast. In his capacity as "professional listener" (and watcher)--and as a guy that never seems to think much of himself--Harpo talks to and quotes everyone: Jewish stagehands ("At least here there are no pogroms") , theatre promoters, Soviet party big-wigs, spies ("Da. I understand. Is joke...") .

After all the lunacy, his settled married life seems to have been very satisfying. He certainly seems to have been the ideal father to his wife Susan's sensible Mom. Okay, who am I trying to kid? He sounds like the PERFECT father, a goofy Atticus Finch, if you will. No wonder Susan, his wife, tracked him down and finagled an invite to the Goldwyn's to meet him, and hung around for months while he waffled. It's so romantic it will make your toes curl with pleasure.

As Arthur Marx ages, this book becomes increasingly poignant. Where does all that youthful silliness and energy go, as one slows down? If the last few pages, set in a Vegas casino with an old friend, don't make you weep with the recognition of the place in our lives where we accept our limits--then you have a heart of stone. Beautiful.

A simply heartrending Afterword by Harpo's son Bill completes the book. "I miss him," he writes. "Harpo I can see on the late show, along with my crazy uncles. It's Dad that I miss." We do too, Bill.

Survive the Drive: How to Beat Freeway Traffic in Southern California

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Driving in Southern California
I'll Still Be in Traffic..
I had no idea!

Survive the Drive: How to Beat Freeway Traffic in Southern California
David Rizzo
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0977779106

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Driving in Southern California.......2007-03-20

I love this book. We will be renting a car to visit family and make several side trips in southern California so this book is just what I wanted. I drove in the LA urban area in the 1960's, but traffic flow has multiplied since.

David Rizzo has written the book very well and it's entertaining. It includes fundemental and advanced information and tips on beating the crush. Our drive in southern California will still be a challenge but it should be a lot more fun. I highly recommend the book.

I'll Still Be in Traffic.........2007-01-19

The audience for this book is limited to those who live in the immediate LA area. The references to freeways, radio stations, popular personalities, streets, onramps, offramps, etc., will not be understood by the other states or even those in Northern Cal. But, since over a bizillion people seem to live in SoCal, I suppose that might not hurt the sales of this book. Instead of small tips and tricks the author opts for broad information (ie stay on the freeway when it rains and avoid city streets). The information won't necessarily help you save time on your everyday drive home, but will definitely help you understand more about traffic patterns and transportation issues. The part(s) I found most interesting were about the timing patters of the stoplights; the author explores this topic quite well and does provide useful information and city street examples. You do have to be a resident of LA or a frequent driver in the downtown and surrounding areas to get the most from this book. The book is quite reader-friendly, with some humor and examples so it's worth your time if this topic is of interest to you.

I had no idea!.......2006-08-10

Before I read David Rizzo's information packed guide I had no idea how freeways were assigned numbers. I always assumed that some guys at Caltrans rolled dice in the stairwell and divined the digits from the results. Seriously, Dave,Dr.Roadmap, Rizzo has compiled a truly impressive little book here. It contains such information as how traffic jams form, why we love to look at accidents and who really is at fault in most car-truck accidents. Dave tells you how to plan for a freeway trip and what to do to avoid getting locked in if you do wind up in a jam. Although this is a regional book it contains plenty of information useful to anyone who lives in a major metropolitan area that is strapped in by beltways. And it's all presented with a good dose of humor which all of us should employ to prevent road rage.

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Little House on the Freeway
Tim Kimmel
Manufacturer: Multnomah
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GRF584

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