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  • The Brotherhood of the Dish

    by Al Dente ...
    So what happens if you are a solid decade into the career of your dreams, and all of a sudden, technology changes, and suddenly not just your job but practically the entire industry vanishes in the space of just a few short years, and there you are at "middle age" having to start all over again at the bottom in a new career? It happened to me, and it felt a lot like jumping in a metaphorical kayak ... Read more

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  • Meeting Women

    by Al Dente ...
    Meeting Women is a frank, funny, and refreshingly down-to-earth guide for men who want to meet women in the real world — not on dating apps, not through manipulation, and not by following some phony pickup artist script.Drawing on decades of personal experience, author Al Dente cuts through the nonsense with practical, street-tested advice on how to approach women confidently and respectfully — on ... Read more

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  • SLOw Me Down

    by Al Dente ...
    You've just spent the better part of a decade establishing yourself in the brutally competitive but incredibly invigorating Los Angeles "lowbrow / underground" art scene. You've gained some traction, you're in lots of exciting art shows, and you're even selling art and gaining regular collectors. Then one day, a quirk of fate and a change of work circumstances drop you into a quiet, sleepy little ... Read more

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  • The UnderARTcheivers

    by Al Dente ...
    When Al Dente and Kris Blaze first arrived on the central coast of California, they were fresh off a year-long sabbatical in the desert after spending the previous infinity of years immersed in the L.A. underground arts scene. To go from a world occupied by transvestite hookers and striving blond famewhores and such, then to the deep desert all full of coyotes and cucharachas, and finally to the ... Read more

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  • Bender Ender

    by Al Dente ...
    For exactly 5 years, The Gallery At The End Of The World in Altadena, CA was the center of the world for a ragtag group of young artists who met there and strode together into the wilderness of the L.A. "underground" art scene. There was nothing overly dramatic about how it all ended. The lease just ran out and owners decided to sell the building we were in. Now it's 5 years later and that same ... Read more

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  • Life Would Be Golden

    by Al Dente ...
    This is the second of the "lost ArtBender Weekend stories" that I recently uncovered (the other being "Bender Ender"). In this one, The Gallery At The End Of The World was in full swing. It was December, the last show of our first full year of operations. Al Dente and Kris Blaze had just moved to Arizona the month before and were commuting back to California for the long weekend artshow. The ... Read more

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  • Being Kind In An Unkind World

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    In this busy world we live in today, all too often we seem to forget the little things that make other people feel great, and it makes their day. Simple things like holding a door open, asking how someone is doing and actually waiting to hear the answer, or helping someone out in an aisle of a grocery store. This book is about different ways we can do just that- make others feel good. And in ... Read more

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  • I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies)

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  • I'm Fine...And Other Lies

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  • The Lesson

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    The Lesson presents a self-absorbed wedding DJ as the newest addition to Jessica Westhead’s trademark cast of offbeat protagonists. This posturing narrator is showing a new recruit the ropes, but what begins as a monologue full of blue-collar bravado grows more menacing over the course of the night. He becomes fixated on a female wedding guest—you know the type, spiky hair and feathers on her ... Read more

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  • So Sad Today

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    "These essays are sad and uncomfortable and their own kind of gorgeous. They reveal so much about what it is to live in this world, right now." —Roxane Gay, New York Times–bestselling author of Bad FeministFrom acclaimed poet and creator of the popular twitter account @SoSadToday comes a brutally honest collection of essays "at once devastating and delightful . . . as raw as it is funny" ( ... Read more

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