Publisher's Synopsis
17,591 Excuses for a Party contains every rationalization you'll ever need to have a party, a drink, or both. The excuses are organized by date, including: 7059 Toastable Events, 6936 Birthdays to Celebrate, 915 Drink-Worthy Factoids, 1802 Daily Wine, Beer, and Drink Pairings (with 863 Original Mug & Mali Cocktail Recipes, Many Potable), and 880 Quotes, Drinking Games, Cocktail Proverbs & Spells, Pranks, Gulping Poems, Naughty Limericks, and Other Surprises In spite of the menace posed by hoards of lunatic literary agents, Mug and Mali announced this new disagreeable collection of Excuses. Readers will find the miscellany bewildering and the cocktails addicting - and vice-versa. "17,591 Excuses for a Party" is immature, yet ill-mannered, up-staging such lesser works as, "How to Moon Improperly!" and "Do Trousers Matter?" It's another piece of work that will keep you up nights reading and drinking. Enjoy! The New Century Dada Press brings the mystique and power of avant-garde Dada to the 21st century. Dada was officially not a movement, its artists not artists and its art not art. Its post-World War I works rebelled against the norms of bourgeois culture and war, and included automatic collage, poetry, painting, sculpture, film, and performance art. Dada influenced Surrealism, Futurism, Cubism, Expressionism, Bobism, The Fat Earth Society, and miscellaneous authors. Here's what the critics are saying about "17,591 Excuses for a Party: " "This book looks like I need a drink." - Isabelle Ringing, The Illiterary Journal. "This is the best book I never read." - Abraham Lincoln, Civil War Correspondence. "I'd rather be drinking." - Segovia Carpet, The Paid Review. "Where do we get our money back?" - Tyrone Shoelaces, The Daily Bungle. "Take heart - even the worst book has an end." - Frieda People, The Dead Beat. "We would love to read this 21st Century Dada book, if we were still around." - Marcel Duchump, Hans Earp, Max Earnest, Man Raygun, Tristen Zzorro, Salvador's Deli. "Picking up a Miscellany is like punching your day in the face." - Amelia Barfup, The Hourly World News. "Early to rise and early to bed make a man sleepy, stupid, and dead." - Benjamin Frankly, Poor Richard's Arse. "This book represents the ascent of the English language." - Segovia Carpet, The Paid Review. "...one of the ...vital and ...important ...Modern Dadaists we have." - Barb Dwyer, The Modern Guide to Drunken Dadaists. "If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now." - Dorothy Parker. "The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot." - Andre Breton, New Dada News. "I don't understand the flow of the story" - Gary Shattire, The Chicago Chugger. "What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art." - Augustus Saint-Gaudens. "This work made me drink a whole pitcher of dry Martinis." - Ira Gurgitate, The Pittsburgh Drifter. "It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. Mug & Mali told us for three quarters of an hour how they came to write their beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required." - Bertie Wooster. "The art of Mug & Mali is a ribbon around a bomb." - Andre Breton, Obscuro Journal. "Good books enlighten the mind, bad books corrupt the soul. Which is this? Three guesses." - Gus Toe, The Bespoke Journal. "So many Miscellanies, so little shelf space." - Mug & Mali.
