An off Day in My World's Fair

An off Day in My World's Fair

Author: Ken Willidau

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2010-11-10

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 145021570X

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Written for people who are just completely sick of themselves, An Off Day In My World’s Fair contains more than 2,500 jokes and one-liners that offers readers one example of how to make nothing of themselves and being happy with the end results. A well-deserved getaway day. Willidau has taken leave of his senses to spend one day taking care of himself. Ken Willidau’s philosophy is that if you can’t get away from yourself take yourself away from you. Willidau treats himself fairly on his off day, amusing himself with all the things life has had to offer and throws it back at you. And you’ll be the one caught up in his escapism. Chapter exhibits make the day one to really remember and one to really forget. Among them, “Hall of Mirrors”, “The Food Building”, “A Rollercoaster Ride”, “The Freak Show”, “The Tunnel of Love” and “The Fireworks Extravaganza” make the day one of those once-in-a-lifetime experiences. The day is spent with a host of jokes using wit, dark humour, bottom 10 lists, tongue-in-cheek, plays on words and double entendre humour. Spending your day with Ken will take your mind off you while he goes out of his. An Off Day In My World’s Fair is a perfect read for those times when you know what to do with yourself and you just don’t care too.


The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair

The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair

Author: Bill Cotter

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738536064

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The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair was the largest international exhibition ever built in the United States. More than one hundred fifty pavilions and exhibits spread over six hundred forty-six acres helped the fair live up to its reputation as "the Billion-Dollar Fair." With the cold war in full swing, the fair offered visitors a refreshingly positive view of the future, mirroring the official theme: Peace through Understanding. Guests could travel back in time through a display of full-sized dinosaurs, or look into a future where underwater hotels and flying cars were commonplace. They could enjoy Walt Disney's popular shows, or study actual spacecraft flown in orbit. More than fifty-one million guests visited the fair before it closed forever in 1965. The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair captures the history of this event through vintage photographs, published here for the first time.


Dancing to My Life's Soundtrack

Dancing to My Life's Soundtrack

Author: Ken Willidau

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2015-03-31

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1491762268

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Written for people who have a song in their heart and a heart in their chest, Dancing to My Life's Soundtrack contains more than 2,500 jokes and one-liners that offers readers one way to trip the light fantastic and keep time to it, too. Theme music for the ages. From conception to death and everything of any note in between. Willidau has risen above the scales of lounge lizard to compile the soundtrack of his life to put to music what mere words could never say. Ken Willidaus philosophy is that if you cant say whats in your heart and on your mind you should put it into the lyrics of songs that people will be repeating before long to make it look like they, too, are someone who is dancing along in life staying composed, themselves. Willidau orchestrates his story into a symphony of sound to set the mood for the moods that have rocked his world to his soul, in a compilation of a lifetime. And youll be toe-tapping along with it in no time caught up in it by the catchiness of it all. Chapters band together a life that strings along a musical story of high and lows of all the right and wrong notes. Among them, Future Boy, Mother, Isolation, Human Behaviour, Remember and Into the Light make for a festival of sound that is a once-in-a-lifetime performance. This record of life is tracked with a maestro of jokes using wit, dark humour, one-liner hit wonders, tongue-in-cheek, twisted logic and double entendre humour. Spending your day with Ken will put a song in your head that will drive you as crazy as the thoughts its replacing that are always there hitting all the sour notes just making you sound flat, yourself. Dancing To My Life's Soundtrack is a perfect read for those times when you want to make a concerted effort to play something different and not keep singing the same old song, yourself. And, a one and a two.


Clothes Really Do Make the Man

Clothes Really Do Make the Man

Author: Ken WIllidau

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2014-10-17

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1491723440

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Written for people who are trying to be what theyre wearing but dont have the same taste in clothes that other people would like, Clothes Really Do Make the Man contains more than 2,500 jokes and one-liners that offers readers ways they can fashion their own lives into a stylish ensemble that will make them model citizens to everyone they want to meet or didnt want to, anyway. Willidau has patterned a writing style that sews together all the designs hes modeled for his life. Ken Willidaus philosophy is that looking it is as good as being it if people dont look past that to see the truth that lies within. Willidau fashions himself in a manner that will leave even the most formally dressed person as a casual giggling mess. And youll be put in stitches, too. Chapters attempt to design a whole person from the clothes he has chosen to show off as his interpretation of himself for others to determine what it is for them to be seeing. Among them, Mittens on Strings, Hand-Me-Down Jeans, Tie-Dyed T-shirt, Flood Pants, Balaclava and Thinking Cap are just part of the complete outfit that make the whole man. The walk down the runway is spent with a patchwork of jokes using wit, dark humour, jokes that will knock your socks off, tongue-in-cheek, jokes needling you gentle reader, plays on words and double entendre humour. Spending your day with Ken will make you look at yourself differently no matter what you think others are seeing for themselves. Clothes Really Do Make the Man provides the perfect cover for those days you want to look like someone who, obviously, reads books and not whatever that is youre wrapped up in now that youve made yourself a slave to fashion to just be read like that yourself. Lets wear a book out.


Buy This Book & You Won't Be Hurt

Buy This Book & You Won't Be Hurt

Author: Ken Willidau

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2014-10-17

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1491723416

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Written for people who are absolutely no help to themselves whatsoever, Buy This Book and You Wont Be Hurt contains more than 2,500 jokes and one-liners that offers readers one way to see how someone else copes with their issues you have with yourself. Willidau tries to help himself by helping others since theyve only really been the problem for him and hes hoping that what goes around comes around in full. Ken Willidaus philosophy is that if he can help one person, he knows hes probably solved one of his own problems, too. So its double self-help. How much more do you losers need before its just embarassing to everyone. Everyone. And, if you can be helped the odds are in his favour he will be, too. Chapters try to save the reader from themselves for the time it takes to read them, anyway. Among them the realization and acceptance that, Life is Taking You on a Trip to Nowhere, Vanity, Thy Name is I, In a Nutshell, Youre Nuts, Youre Only Human, Youre Being Stupid to Think Youre Not and Grinning and Bearing It make the day one thats not as hopeless when it is over than when it began. The time is spent with a healthy helping of jokes using wit, dark humour, tongue-in-cheek, shots at you gentle reader, plays on words and double entendre humour. Spending your time with Ken may not help all your problems but it kept you away from making them worse for a while now that you see how really crazy life can be. Buy This Book and You Wont Be Hurt is the perfect read for those days when youre as far away from perfect as you can possibly get and any help you can get would be a big one. Self-help yourself.


Wasting Time as Time Wastes Me

Wasting Time as Time Wastes Me

Author: Ken Willidau

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2016-06-18

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1491793473

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Written for people who are in a race against time to waste as much of it in their lives, as possible, before time wastes them, Wasting Time As Time Wastes Me contains more than 2,500 jokes and one-liners that offers readers one more way to waste even more time, to show time that you are not going to stand for it, wasting you, while you can sit around reading a book wasting it. A stand-off for all times from birth to death. Willidau has reached back into the waste bins of history to find anything that was a worthy competitor of time that he wasted away for himself. Ken Willidaus philosophy is that if it was a waste of living life once, it cant do any harm wasting any more of it reading this book, to make it look like you did it with purpose and vision. Willidau wastes more of his time writing about the complete waste it was and isnt blaming fate, now, and instead is taking responsibility for his own inactions. Chapters pick through the wasteland looking for anything that made them worth documenting, in the first place, and seeing if theres nothing that could be built on, now, as a strategy against time. Among them, Time of Discovery, Family Time, TV Time, Past Primetime, and Times Up make the timeframe one of those never-in-a-lifetime experiences. The time is wasted with hollow words and a pointless heap of jokes using wit, dark humour, wasted comedic pauses, plays on words, hands-in-pockets humour, and double entendre humour. Wasting your time with Ken will have you sitting around wondering where all your time went as you spend it wasting more of your life on someone elses idea of it, for himself. Wasting Time As Time Wastes Me is a perfect read for those times you have it to waste, and you might as well waste it on someone elses waste of it than think about ways of wasting yourself. Times already got its sights on you and theres nothing you can do about it, so you might as well just get used to it, one way or the other. Lets get wasted.


Tomorrow-Land

Tomorrow-Land

Author: Joseph Tirella

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013-12-23

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 149300333X

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Motivated by potentially turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses—New York's "Master Builder"—brought the World's Fair to the Big Apple for 1964 and '65. Though considered a financial failure, the 1964-65 World' s Fair was a Sixties flashpoint in areas from politics to pop culture, technology to urban planning, and civil rights to violent crime. In an epic narrative, the New York Times bestseller Tomorrow-Land shows the astonishing pivots taken by New York City, America, and the world during the Fair. It fetched Disney's empire from California and Michelangelo's La Pieta from Europe; and displayed flickers of innovation from Ford, GM, and NASA—from undersea and outerspace colonies to personal computers. It housed the controversial work of Warhol (until Governor Rockefeller had it removed); and lured Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Meanwhile, the Fair—and its house band, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians—sat in the musical shadows of the Beatles and Bob Dylan, who changed rock-and-roll right there in Queens. And as Southern civil rights efforts turned deadly, and violent protests also occurred in and around the Fair, Harlem-based Malcolm X predicted a frightening future of inner-city racial conflict. World's Fairs have always been collisions of eras, cultures, nations, technologies, ideas, and art. But the trippy, turbulent, Technicolor, Disney, corporate, and often misguided 1964-65 Fair was truly exceptional.


I Am My Own Hobby

I Am My Own Hobby

Author: Ken Willidau

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2008-10-07

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0595610374

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Written for people who have nothing better to do with their time, I Am My Own Hobby offers readers one example on how to turn their own thoughts to hobbies. Ken Willidau has taken his take on a host of interests, neuroses and time-wasters to organize his thoughts into becoming his own hobby. Ken Willidau's philosophy is that if you're going to be obsessed with anything you may as well by self-obsessed. It's too easy. Everything you need is within your reach if not your grasp. Your brain's your own scrapbook. Get off the glue. That's where the fun begins. Willidau explores his world using humour to think himself though all the times. Through 2,500 one-liners classified thoughts on Greed, Travel, Food, Neighbourliness, Sex, Socializing and half a chapter on Laziness are presented in word form. Interests are explored using wit, truisms, just plain wrongisms, ridicule, play-on-words and double-entendre humour. In fact, there are so many double-entendres in this book you should actually, by rights, be charged with stealing the book if you buy it. Do you even have the nerve? Come explore Ken Willidau's hobby. Ken Willidau's interests. It's a weird hobby but just be thankful after reading his thoughts that he has absolutely no interest in reading yours, at all. I Am My Own Hobby is a perfect read for those times you don't know what to do with yourself.


A World's Fair for the Global Village

A World's Fair for the Global Village

Author: Carl Malamud

Publisher: Carl Malamud

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780262133388

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Malamud offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Internet Exposition of 1996--a worldwide event which embraced the new technologies of the Internet--and profiles the small group of people who made it happen. The book comes with an audio CD and a CD-ROM for Macintosh and Windows 95. 800 color illustrations.