University of Wisconsin Press, 2004 Cloth: 978-0-299-20270-5 | eISBN: 978-0-299-20273-6 Library of Congress Classification PN6165.F45 2004 Dewey Decimal Classification 814.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 tickled with the
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Michael Feldman, the host of Michael Feldman's Whad'ya Know, heard nationally on 320 public radio stations, is the author of Whad'ya Know?, The Book of Whad'ya Knowledge, Thanks for the Memos, and Wisconsin Curiosities. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin with an other-sex partner and two daughters. Visit www.notmuch.com
REVIEWS
"Michael Feldman writes with great affection about his family, his state, his profession, his ethnic group, his generation, his country, and Milwaukee. His book, like his radio program, is funny, intelligent, informative, and non-ghost-written. Other than that, he's just like Stern and Limbaugh."—Joe Queenan, author of Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother Country
"Michael Feldman dispenses a rare brand of humor absurd enough to shovel a glimpse at the truth. In Something I Said, he has frisbeed his soul into hell in the hope that some three-headed, flatulent dog will catch it. Funny enough to make you dump standing."—Kinky Friedman, author of ‘Scuse Me While I Whip This Out: Reflections on Country Singers, Presidents, and Other Troublemakers
TABLE OF CONTENTS
<table of contents, p. vii>
Contents
Acknowledgments 000
Introduction 000
I. A House of a Guy's Own
1. A House of a Guy's Own 000
2. A Walk on the Mild Side 000
3. Feldman's Best Friend 000
4. Gentile Like Me 000
5. Apologia pro Vita Herring 000
6. Mad Mike 000
7. The Nondescript Charm of the Bourgeoisie 000
8. Italian Vacation 000
II. Breeding in Captivity
9. Leave No Parent Behind 000
10. Runaway 000
11. Is This My Day On? 000
12. My Daughter Says Hello 000
13. Nora Has a Problem 000
14. Kinder, Not Gentler, Garten 000
15. The Guinness Method 000
16. My Religious Instruction 000
17. Sometimes a Great Ape 000
18. Home Alone 000
19. Jews Close Lower in Light Trading 000
20. Don't Kazaa for Me, Argentina 000
21. A Death in the Family 000
22. Freaky Weeky 000
23. Cassandra 000
24. My Parents Smoke Pot 000
III. A Personality
25. Fame (I'm Gonna Live Forever) 000
26. How to Get into Radio 000
27. Whad'ya Know? 000
28. Michael Feldman Discovered America In . . . 000
29. Fan Base 000
30. This Is Television 000
IV. Because I Live Here
31. Coin of Our Realm 000
32. The Midwest: Where Is It? 000
33. Moo-Yah! An Editorial 000
34. Minnesota Man Fakes Death 000
35. (Still) One Big Individual 000
36. Mourning Becomes DuWayne 000
37. Mad-Is-One 000
V. Feldmanity
38. My Manhood 000
39. 1965 000
40. Foundling, at Fifty 000
41. A Feldman Is 000
42. This Far Apart 000
43. Anglos in America 000
VI. I Was Just Thinking
44. Paranoid's Paradise 000
45. A Little Hitler 000
46. Barney Google 000
47. Letters from the Milky Way 000
48. Baby Boomers Go Boom! 000
49. What Crisis? 000
50. Why I've Got a Loverly Bunch of Coconuts 000
51. My Life: The Musical 000
52. Fathers and Sons 000
53. Making the World Safe for -Ocracy 000
54. The Moving Mouth, Having Spoke, Moves On 000
55. Afterword: The Secret of Life Revealed 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: American wit and humor
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University of Wisconsin Press, 2004 Cloth: 978-0-299-20270-5 eISBN: 978-0-299-20273-6
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 tickled with the
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Michael Feldman, the host of Michael Feldman's Whad'ya Know, heard nationally on 320 public radio stations, is the author of Whad'ya Know?, The Book of Whad'ya Knowledge, Thanks for the Memos, and Wisconsin Curiosities. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin with an other-sex partner and two daughters. Visit www.notmuch.com
REVIEWS
"Michael Feldman writes with great affection about his family, his state, his profession, his ethnic group, his generation, his country, and Milwaukee. His book, like his radio program, is funny, intelligent, informative, and non-ghost-written. Other than that, he's just like Stern and Limbaugh."—Joe Queenan, author of Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother Country
"Michael Feldman dispenses a rare brand of humor absurd enough to shovel a glimpse at the truth. In Something I Said, he has frisbeed his soul into hell in the hope that some three-headed, flatulent dog will catch it. Funny enough to make you dump standing."—Kinky Friedman, author of ‘Scuse Me While I Whip This Out: Reflections on Country Singers, Presidents, and Other Troublemakers
TABLE OF CONTENTS
<table of contents, p. vii>
Contents
Acknowledgments 000
Introduction 000
I. A House of a Guy's Own
1. A House of a Guy's Own 000
2. A Walk on the Mild Side 000
3. Feldman's Best Friend 000
4. Gentile Like Me 000
5. Apologia pro Vita Herring 000
6. Mad Mike 000
7. The Nondescript Charm of the Bourgeoisie 000
8. Italian Vacation 000
II. Breeding in Captivity
9. Leave No Parent Behind 000
10. Runaway 000
11. Is This My Day On? 000
12. My Daughter Says Hello 000
13. Nora Has a Problem 000
14. Kinder, Not Gentler, Garten 000
15. The Guinness Method 000
16. My Religious Instruction 000
17. Sometimes a Great Ape 000
18. Home Alone 000
19. Jews Close Lower in Light Trading 000
20. Don't Kazaa for Me, Argentina 000
21. A Death in the Family 000
22. Freaky Weeky 000
23. Cassandra 000
24. My Parents Smoke Pot 000
III. A Personality
25. Fame (I'm Gonna Live Forever) 000
26. How to Get into Radio 000
27. Whad'ya Know? 000
28. Michael Feldman Discovered America In . . . 000
29. Fan Base 000
30. This Is Television 000
IV. Because I Live Here
31. Coin of Our Realm 000
32. The Midwest: Where Is It? 000
33. Moo-Yah! An Editorial 000
34. Minnesota Man Fakes Death 000
35. (Still) One Big Individual 000
36. Mourning Becomes DuWayne 000
37. Mad-Is-One 000
V. Feldmanity
38. My Manhood 000
39. 1965 000
40. Foundling, at Fifty 000
41. A Feldman Is 000
42. This Far Apart 000
43. Anglos in America 000
VI. I Was Just Thinking
44. Paranoid's Paradise 000
45. A Little Hitler 000
46. Barney Google 000
47. Letters from the Milky Way 000
48. Baby Boomers Go Boom! 000
49. What Crisis? 000
50. Why I've Got a Loverly Bunch of Coconuts 000
51. My Life: The Musical 000
52. Fathers and Sons 000
53. Making the World Safe for -Ocracy 000
54. The Moving Mouth, Having Spoke, Moves On 000
55. Afterword: The Secret of Life Revealed 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: American wit and humor
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