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  The Joy of Leaving Your Sh*t All over the Place: The Art of Being Messy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 113min

  The anti-clutter movement is having a moment. You may have heard about a book - an entire book - written on the topic of tidiness and how magical and life-changing it is to neaten up and throw away your belongings. Yes, you read that correctly. It's time to fight that ridiculousness and to start buying even more stuff and leaving it any place you want. Guess what, neatniks? Science shows that messy people are more creative.* Being a slob is an art, and there's a fine line between being a consumer and being a hoarder. Don't cross that line. This book tells you how to clutter mindfully and with great joy. The results are mind-blowing. Your plants will stop dying. Your whiskey bottle will never run dry. Your drugstore points will finally add up to a free jar of salsa and some nice shampoo. You'll go shopping and discover that you've lost weight.... It's time to take back your life from the anti-clutter movement.  *As well as smarter and more attractive. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erin Yuen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/003647/bk_drms_003647_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Dead Woman Laughing: An Actor's 'Take' from Both Sides of the Camera , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 343min

  Witty, self-effacing and painfully honest, the themes of life, death and laughter come together as Daphne Ashbrook recounts her many on- and off-screen scrapes with mortality. Packed with rich anecdotes from her career in TV, stage and film, this refreshingly candid and conversational memoir spans a childhood in a theatrical family to pulling back the curtain of Hollywood, revealing the glamour and ridiculousness of a business mired in a struggle between art and profit. Known for both her comic timing and deep emotional portrayals, Daphne has appeared in many TV and film roles including the 1996 Doctor Who movie, in which she played the role of Dr. Grace Holloway and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as the titular character in 'Melora'. Reflecting on her life and her career, Daphne discovers the surprising patterns and hilarious absurdities that accompany being a modern-day professional actor. The result is an amusing, informative and intimate memoir. So pull up a barstool, grab a beer and lose yourself in Dead Woman Laughing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daphne Ashbrook. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lbrk/000094/bk_lbrk_000094_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Bible in a Nutshell , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 46min

  This is the story of the Bible told like you've very likely never heard it told before.The Bible is one the most highly regarded literary works of all time. A number one best seller before there even was such a thing, the Bible has long been the most purchased book in history. The problem is, however, that most people haven't actually read the book, and those who have don't really understand a very fundamental fact about the Bible. That fact being that the Bible is, in all honesty, simply a very bad work of fiction.In my version I strip away all the metaphysical mumbo jumbo and all the supposedly miraculous nonsense and tell the story for exactly what it is. The Bible is nothing more than a collection of fictional works from the minds of deluded and possibly mentally ill men, which tells the story of the most powerful wizard ever to exist. This wizard just so happens to supposedly live in another dimension, and the Bible offers the stories of how this extra-dimensional wizard used to supposedly interact with mankind.Told from the perspective offered here, the absolute ridiculousness of this book becomes painfully transparent. Leaving the listener to wonder how anyone could have ever believed it as fact. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Casper Rigsby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/150293/bk_acx0_150293_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  This Old Body: And 99 Other Reasons to Laugh at Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 164min

  Personal essays on the ridiculousness of aging. It’s clean, it’s clever, it’s anything but clichéd, This Old Body speaks to all of us who aren’t what we once were. With such witty titles as, “Where, Oh, Where Has My Little Waist Gone?” and “The World Is Round But my Feet Are Flat,” Barbara Greenleaf will get you laughing at the everyday humiliations and aggravations that befall people of a certain age. In addition, she treats you to quick takes by other funny people. Here's one from Carrie Fisher: "As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't."In the book’s first section, “Aging: Why Didn’t Anybody Warn Me,” Barbara pokes fun at our physical decline. In the second section, “Married Since the First Crusade”, she kids around about her eons of marital bliss. And in the third section, “Muddling Through the Modern World”, she good-naturedly lampoons family occasions, airplane seatmates, oldies concerts, and dietary fads. When Barbara reads out loud from This Old Body, audience members rave: “I feel she is speaking just to me.” “Entertaining as hell.” “Makes us feel we’re all in this aging thing together.” Wonderful birthday, host, and holiday book for all the Baby Boomer and above men and women in your life. One for them, one for you.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barbara Greenleaf, Don Ollis, Phil Mayes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/173062/bk_acx0_173062_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkwardness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 358min

  New York magazine's "Science of Us" editor explains the compelling psychology of awkwardness and asks: What if the moments that make us feel most awkward are actually valuable? Have you ever said good-bye to someone, only to discover that you're both walking in the same direction? Or had your next thought fly out of your brain in the middle of a presentation? Or accidentally liked an old photo on someone's Instagram or Facebook, thus revealing yourself to be a creepy social media stalker? Melissa Dahl, editor of New York magazine's "Science of Us" website, has. After a lifetime of cringing, she became intrigued by awkwardness: a universal but underappreciated emotion. In this witty and compassionate book, Dahl explores the oddest, cringiest corners of our world. She chats with strangers on the busy New York City subway, goes on awkward friend dates using a "Tinder-for-friendship" app, takes improv comedy lessons, and even reads aloud from her (highly embarrassing!) middle school diary to a crowd of strangers. After all of that, she realizes: Awkward moments are opportunities to test yourself. When everyone else is pretending to have it under control, you can be a little braver and grow a little bigger - while remaining true to your awkward self. And along the way, you might find that awkward moments unite us in our mutual human ridiculousness. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Melissa Dahl. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003868/bk_peng_003868_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Turn Around Bright Eyes: A Karaoke Love Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 415min

  Turn Around Bright Eyes picks up Sheffield's story right after Love Is a Mix Tape. He is a young widower devastated by grief, trying to build a new life in a new town after his wife's death. As a writer for Rolling Stone, he naturally takes solace in music. But that's when he discovers the sublime ridiculousness of karaoke, and despite the fact that he can’t carry a tune, he begins to find his voice. His karaoke obsession takes him to some strange places, whether that means singing a Frank Sinatra song in a senior-citizen community in Florida, attempting a Merle Haggard classic at a cowboy saloon in the Mojave desert, or clearing the room at an after-hours dive in Chinatown. But he finds the music leads him to the most surprising place of all - a new life and a new love. Turn Around Bright Eyes is a story about finding the courage to start over, move on, and rock the mike. It’s about falling in love and navigating your way through adult romance. It’s about how you can learn the weirdest things about yourself just by butchering a Hall & Oates song at 2 A.M. under fluorescent lights in a room full of strangers. It’s about how songs get tangled up in our deepest emotions, evoking memories of the past while inspiring hope for the future. But most of all, it’s a book about all the strange ways music brings people together. Sweet, funny, honest, and full of the music you love, hate, and love to hate, Turn Around Bright Eyes is Rob Sheffield at his very best. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rob Sheffield. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/003510/bk_harp_003510_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Hearts and Mines: With the Marines in al Anbar - A Story of Psychological Warfare in Iraq , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 482min

  This is a true story of war, the story of one man's transformation as he retraces the mine-strewn roads of a land itself transformed by mankind's most shockingly inhuman practice. It is the firsthand account of a member of one of the United States Army's three-man Tactical Psychological Operations Teams, groups of men tasked with winning the hearts and minds of Iraq's civilian population through leaflets, loudspeakers, conversation, and bribery. Transcribed from and inspired by the author's personal wartime journal, it is a story of introspection. It relates how the feelings of eagerness and uncertainty in a young man unfamiliar with war were replaced with the dread knowledge that, buried within his soul, beneath a facade of goodwill and morality, lurked the capacity to kill his fellow men. There are scenes of battle retold in Hearts and Mines. There are descriptions of the feelings of seeing once-familiar human bodies destroyed beyond recognition. Some days are described as being full of hope and appreciation for the beauty of the world, others with despair for the omnipresent cruelty and destruction which has a habit of consuming men when they feel unaccountable for their actions. It captures the sensory experience of living in a singular environment full of strange plants and animals, friends true and false, and determined enemies, encapsulating the existential fear of mortar and rocket attacks, and the ever-present threat of IEDs, as well as the ridiculousness of military bureaucracy, such as was demonstrated by a sergeant major's decision to punish graffiti artists by removing the doors of all the camp's toilets. In late 2001 Russell Snyder joined the United States Army as a psychological operations specialist. As a member of the 9th PSYOP Battalion, the army's only active-duty, tactical psychological operations unit he deployed to Iraq, the experience that inspired him to write Hearts and Mines. Subsequently he was deployed twice ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Allen Nelson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010086/bk_adbl_010086_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Embrace the Ridiculousness: A Pocket Guide to Being a Better You

  Embrace the Ridiculousness: A Pocket Guide to Being a Better You: ab 4.49 €

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  Mind the Bollocks

  Mind the Bollocks - A riotous rant through the ridiculousness of Rock'n'Roll: ab 7.49 €

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  We Take Ourselves Very Seriously

  Some artists completely defy categorization by genre. For a long time it seemed as if Mischievous Badger was one of those bands. It's not easy to label a band that combines falsetto croons, ripping Hammond organ, and sequin studded costumes on one album, which is exactly what the band did on their last LP, the sensational Kids These Days. But on their outstanding new release We Take Ourselves Very Seriously, the duo of Carson "Brutha Man" Witte and Chris "Luva Man" McCarthy show that they occupy a genre all of their own, and the only word to describe that genre is FUN! The new album is eclectic, hilarious and a large step up from their last release, but above all, it is just plain good old-fashioned fun for you to enjoy with your whole family. The band kicks things off with a serious slab of white boy funk, the raging jam "You Set Yourself on Fire." Featuring lyrics that rhyme "lust for her ass" with "combustible gas" and a funktastic Hammond organ solo from Chris, the track is sure to be a hit with fans of their smash single "Like a Teddy Bear." Immediately following is the head banging absurdity "Confucian Girls Take Your Money." Carson mourns the loss of his cash to a girl from a Chinese religion, but gets the last laugh when he takes her out to a nice seafood dinner, and never calls her again! He also takes a glorious guitar solo straight out of the AC/DC songbook of 4-note musicianship. Chris meanwhile supplies listeners with a healthy dose of killing Hammond organ and heavily distorted harpsichord. Yes that's correct, these boys put a harpsichord through a guitar amp, showing that they can still go "bach" to their European classical roots. "Wish I Was a Drummer," an instant classic, is the next track on the album. Carson sings about an attempted love affair with a drum set over a New Orleans street beat feel, while Chris takes a phenomenal piano solo that sounds like Oscar Peterson jamming with Bachman-Turner Overdrive. And as if that wasn't enough, the song closes out with a beautiful conch shell solo courtesy of Carson. That's right, a conch shell! Starting off the second half of the album is "Food," a favorite from the band's live show. You can hear the pain in Carson's voice as he struggles to choose between the one he loves and the food he loves so dearly. To emphasize his pain, he swoops up into a breathtaking falsetto that sounds like a beautiful, sparkling, castrated angel. Chris layers on the beauty with Casio synths, melancholy piano, and even more Hammond organ! But wait until the end, when an entire orchestra programmed on Garage Band comes into provide an incredibly climactic finish to the track. The band keeps things relatively mellow for the majority of the next song, "Frog and Toad." Featuring perhaps the most romantic lyrics the band has ever written, Carson and Chris interact beautifully in this piano ballad that compares their lovers to pie a la mode and the beloved children's book series Frog and Toad. But no Mischievous Badger song is ever completely serious, so it is completely fitting that the track fades out with Frog and Toad book titles being shouted out over a funky organ and bongo vamp. Speaking of not serious, fans will be delighted by the hilarious unbridled ridiculousness that is the final track on the album, "Meatloaf." The song tells the story of a young man named Maurice who wishes to woo a girl with his cooking abilities. However, she refuses him when he brings her ham on a wheat roll instead of meatloaf. So in a stunning act of defiance, he steals some meatloaf from his mother's fridge for his love interest. But then he is caught in the act when his mom walks in the kitchen, looking for the stolen meatloaf! She recognizes that he has a passion for cooking, but scolds him for not realizing that true happiness will not come from stealing her meatloaf! Who wouldn't buy a song with such a deep and meaningful plot like this one? And in case fans aren't convinced, they'll be delighted to hear that the album closes out in a very similar fashion to Kids These Days, with a bunch of nonsense being shouted over a ripping organ solo. When you have a band that can combine white boy funk, punk rock swagger, New Orleans rock, a beautiful Pink Floyd-esque epic, touching romantic lyrics and crazy organ solos onto one album, you know you have something special. And Carson Witte and Chris McCarthy are definitely two very special songwriters with high artistic ambitions, a superb lack of maturity, and a great sense of how to have a good time. Download We Take Ourselves Very Seriously, and you will have boatloads of fun listening, guaranteed. It is the sound of two cousins making joyous music that will inspire you to live in the moment and laugh. After all, who wouldn't laugh at that album cover?

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