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Number Hit: I'm
gonna have to take the fifth.
( CA seller's
permit: 97-782501 : Burlingame Business Lic:
23923 ) &
Chia-Al, for your viewing pleasure...
 Metro: Tales of the Cab Trade author: alex farr price: $14.00 + S.&H. Add to cart View Cart |
Now ready!! The
collection of
the best and worst stories, off the top of Alex's head, of driving a
taxi in Oakland, CA. The book not only collects classic stories, it also includes many new stories- like Alex's feelings while working on 9/11/01, as well as several stories about the stripper regulars that made 2000 not a bad year to drive. This book is perfect for those who like the feel of a book in their hands, or who don't get to a computer often enough. Also a perfect gift item. So come one, come all... step right up and get a copy for your library, coffee table, or that train commute to work. |
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New and exclusive to the
Smartass Press
website. . . Metro: true tales of the cab trade as told by Alex Farr, long time driver of a Metro Yellow cab in Oakland, CA. Read some hair-raising tales that have, er, inspired Farr's fiction. The Smartass Press website will now be featuring stories on a rotating basis... old and new, so stop by often and renew your faith in humanity. Or just be glad you have another job. |
 Breakfast in Barcelona: Love, madness, and a tapas bar author: alex farr price: $12.34 + S.&H. Add to cart View cart Or, for the discerning reader who likes to work on a book on the sly from work... introducing the e-Breakfast in Barcelona, for only $ 2.34 !! Add to cart |
Sitting in
a Barcelona
tapas bar, enjoying a little snack with his beer, a girl at a nearby
table
catches Bob's eye. Now he just needs an approach- the perfect
come
on line. There's just one catch. How does a man come off as
smooth when he's been living on a park bench for the last couple of
weeks?
The road hasn't been kind to Bob. French vacation season has come, and poor planning leaves him nowhere to else stay in Barcelona but a park bench. Now he looks like a bum. He smells like a bum. And he knows it. It's not his fault... but isn't that what they all say? The trick, Bob quickly realizes, is to direct the inevitable small talk so that he doesn't come off as just another run-of-the-mill bum. This, Bob's
diary,
is a blueprint to do just that. The line between sound advice and
beer-sodden delusion is very thin though, when a man finds that
stuffing
hot dogs down his pants has become a daily chore. Click on cover at left for full size detail & excerpt of this novel. |
 UnderTow author: alex farr price: $11.97 + S.&H. Add to cart View cart And, for those who prefer to use electricity rather than paper products... those with only the room for a virtual library... there's the e-UnderTow, for only $ 1.97 !! Add to cart |
Robert's
in big
trouble. One careless mistake...and the Kingmaker (his '65 Coupe
de Ville) has vanished from his sort-of girlfriend's quiet Berkeley
neighborhood.
Finding it is just the first step...then he's got to liberate it. But
you
know what they say about fighting City Hall...
Robert inevitably slips into a Kafka-esque struggle with bureaucracy, boredom, BART trains, strange women, and assorted weirdos. Does a man regain his car, only to lose his soul to the undertow? Enter at
your own
risk: no lifeguard on duty. Click on cover at left for full size detail & 5 page excerpt of this novel. |
 tuesday morning author: alex farr artist: michelle p. kern price: $2.00 (shipping & handling free for small orders) Add to cart |
Robert has finally had it. Fed
up with
the boredom of his 9 to 5 cubicle existance, he walks out of his job
and
into the too-bright morning sun to see if he can
reclaim...something...anything.
He's ready to make some drastic changes to the world...but what is the world ready to do to him? comic book
adaptation of
short story by alex farr |
Michelle
P. Kern
online art, etc. by
michelle
p. kern
Remy
J
A gallery of the artwork of Remy J
& now:
The Smartass Production work of Remy J...
Michael Loyd Gray
The works of another independent author, whose work I rather rather like. Click here for a little sample.
SoFA
An art collective based in the Fruitvale District in Oakland,CA.
DisasterAlertDisplay
A rather nifty Weather Information and Alert Services website.
A new project I'm working on, actually. Perhaps soon there will be stories about engineering software... though, it's hard to make an interesting story about form formatting & design, no matter how dynamic the form gets.
It can be fun, though, to go to the front page and peruse the disastilarity of harsh weather around the greater United States...
Click to order:
View CartMetro: tales of the cab trade Trade Paperback ($14.00 + S&H)
Add to cartBreakfast in Barcelona: Love, Madness, & a Tapas bar
| Trade Paperback ($12.34 + S&H) | E-Breakfast In Barcelona (pdf) ($2.34) |
| Trade Paperback ($11.97 + S&H) | E-UnderTow (pdf) ($1.97) |
smartass press
1450 Lincoln Av Suite 13
Burlingame, CA 94010
or email:
[email protected]
or [email protected]
or... well, copies used to be able to be found at the following stores:
Diesel, A Bookstore
5433 College Ave.
Oakland, CA
510 653 9965
Books Inc.
2251 Chestnut
San Francisco, CA
415 931 3633
Books Inc.
3515 California St.
San Francisco, CA
415 221 3666
Books Inc.
1344 Park St.
Alameda, CA
510 522 2226
Planet Books
3917 E. Anaheim St.
Long Beach CA
562 985 3154
William's Bookstore
443 W. 6thSt.
San Pedro CA
310 832 3631
Bloomsbury Books
290 E. Main St.
Ashland, OR
541 488 0029
Jackson's Books
320 Liberty St., SE
Pringle Park Plaza
Salem, OR
503 399 8694
Wallace Books
7241 SE Milwaukie
Portland, OR
503 235 7350
Counter Media
927 SW Oak St.
Portland, OR
503 226 8141
So Many Books Inc.
1816 Main St.
Vancouver, WA
360 514 0358
Park Bench Books
5738 N. 26 St.
Tacoma, WA
253 752 4848
Elliot Bay Book Company
101 S. Main St.
Seattle, WA
206 624 6600
Left Bank Books
92 Pike St. B
Seattle, WA
206 622 0195
Santoro's Books
7216 Greenwood Ave. N.
Seattle, WA
206 784 2113
Magnolia's Bookstore
3206 W. McGraw St.
Seattle, WA
206 283 1062
Books & Books
206 W. Park St.
Butte, MT
406 782 9520
Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore
254 S. Main St.
Salt Lake City, UT
801 328 2586
Old Lahaina Book Emporium
834 Front St.
Maui, HI 96761
808 661 1399
Now they're pretty much only available here. Bookstore shelves are a transitory domicile when you aren't Faulkner (though I was very near Faulkner on the shelves, once upon a time...)
All images and text
found
in this site are copyright of the authors and designers.
In a strange twist of irony though, copies of Breakfast in Barcelona are now selling used on Amazon for $40+ a copy. If you are interested in a "collector's" copy, I suggest you seek those collectors out. Or, of course, you can buy a new copy here.
You might want to hurry, though, as I'll probably raise my prices to match theirs soon... just for the fun of it.
Please do not duplicate
without written permission.
