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A Doghouse Tale released!
(19 Sep 2010 21:30)
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Description :
Case Devries, a cadet midshipman at the US Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point NY, is earning some beer money in Eugene Stein's textile warehouse on Saturday afternoons. Rosanne, Eugene's sexy little Italian secretary, picks him up from the Academy gate and drops him off each Saturday, and this leads to the inevitable - a relationship doomed to fail. Or does it? It is in any case it is the upbeat to an adventure that eventually takes Case and his buddy Brian O'Malley years later from their home away from home – the Seamen's Church Institute, otherwise known as “the Doghouse”, to India by way of a speck in the Ocean called Eniwetok, and from there to the ship graveyards in Kaoshiung with a ramshackle rustbucket of a freighter called the S.S. Flower Power. Aptly named for the era in which this adventure takes place and even more so the termination of the era as the Flower Power meets its final destination at the close of the sixties. The motley crew manning the good ship Flower Power couldn't have been more colorful had they been hand-picked by a madman. They range from the utterly chaotic captain Peachfuzz, to the straight-laced day-man George the Marine or the forty-five year old three hundred pound John Aruda, an able bodied seaman and a flower child who rises to every occasion . Such as organizing the marriage of George the Marine and his Filipino bride on the high seas with Peachfuzz having been bribed to perform the ceremony in order to legalize the stowaway bride brought aboard in Manila with the help of just about the entire crew.
And then there is the mysterious container stowed aboard and buried underneath the load of chemical fertilizer they are carrying to India. What is in it, and is it true what Case learned in Eniwetok about its contents and origin? The contents of the container and the wheeling and dealing around its getting back to where it belongs eventually brings Case back into contact with Eugene and Rosanne; the two people he least expected to cross his path again. But after all was said and done it no longer surprised Case that things went the way they did – it was all meant to be this way and it all happened because it had to happen; it was in the cards and even if events are separated by years, it all makes sense in the end. He was the catalyst to start the series of events rectifying an anomaly in this particular space-time continuum; a messenger, a tool of convenience to make the pieces of the puzzle fall into their proper place.
But prior to this philosophical note, A Doghouse Tale is the hilarious story of a motley crew sailing a ship held together by baling wire, paint and a prayer. It touches on the deplorable condition of the U.S. Merchant Marine in the sixties of the twentieth century, when a nation at war which should be able to rely on the best material for the massive logistic operations that all wars require, but in fact presses old battle wagons such as the Flower Power into service, making it the laughing stock of the maritime world. It is also a moving story in that it shows that when the chips are down, no matter what background or grudges the individual crew members may have towards one another, they band together as one to come to the aid of a shipmate.
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'The Flower Girl' by Guy Lilburne
(06 Apr 2012 10:36)
Download the latest book by bestselling author Guy Lilburne!
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'Thailand Drifter' by Peter Jaggs released!
(05 Apr 2012 21:22)
“It is clear that Peter knows what he is talking about to be able to write (them) so well”. Pattaya Trader Magazine
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‘Thai Cookery for the Completely Clueless’
(04 Apr 2012 22:08)
‘Thai Cookery for the Completely Clueless’ is written with the essentially Thai philosophy in mind that cooking and eating should always be fun.
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Lost in Thailand released!
(02 Apr 2012 09:16)
2nd book by author Jeffrey Johnson
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'White Trash' released!
(29 Mar 2012 02:17)
A story of deception, fraud and spectacular set ups in Asia today.
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Pattaya Adult Cartoons: new series available!
(27 Mar 2012 07:39)
Get the latest adult cartoon series from Michael J. Baird - NOW available!
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'Chamberlain Stories' released
(26 Mar 2012 01:14)
Chamberlain is a college town in the American Midwest. It has 20,000 stories. Here are some of them.
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Tremors - Travel Adventures in Post Earthquake Japan
(21 Mar 2012 03:10)
Tremors is a personal account - sometimes funny, occasionally sad, but always eye-opening - of a gaijin in Japan, at a time when nothing is certain and everything is subject to change..
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The Urge, Volume 2 available
(16 Mar 2012 04:00)
The URGE is a philosophical tale on progress and anxiety between two men and their women who live in high gear financially and human rights; set in Amsterdam and Bangkok.
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The Urge, Volume 1 released
(14 Mar 2012 20:50)
The URGE is a philosophical tale on progress and anxiety between two men and their women who live in high gear financially and human rights; set in Amsterdam and Bangkok.
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Rough Diamonds now available!
(13 Mar 2012 03:34)
Part One of 'Thai Diamonds'
Rough Diamonds is set in Pattaya and Isaan.
There is something about the Diamond boys...
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'The Burmese Game' released
(25 Feb 2012 06:54)
Francesco Benetti’s poker addiction matches that of a far-away drug warlord...
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'The Fixer' released
(25 Feb 2012 06:53)
After more than 50 years in journalism, Bob Andrews decided it was time to come clean and disclose the tricks of his often maligned trade.
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'One Trans Woman’s Spiritual Journey' released
(25 Feb 2012 06:53)
Transcending into womanhood in Phuket, Thailand
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'Broken Halo' released as e-book
(23 Jan 2012 02:02)
BROKEN HALO is an action-packed, fast-moving novel, set in Thailand. This novel is graphic in its raw portrayal of the sinister side of Thai life.
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