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METRO       tales of the cab trade     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.     Perfect for those who like the feel of a book in their hands, or who don't get to a computer often enough. Or, 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.

Metro: Tales of the Cab Trade author: alex farr price: $14.00 + S.&H. Add to cart View cart

        

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Breakfast in Barcelona     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.

Breakfast in Barcelona  author:  alex farr price: $12.34 + S.&H.  Add to cart View cart Or, if you don't want to kill any trees- there's   e-Breakfast in Barcelona

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UnderTow     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.

UnderTow  author:  alex farr price: $11.97 + S.&H.  Add to cart View cart   Or if you prefer electricity over paper products... there's the e-UnderTow, for only $ 1.97 !! Add to cart

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Tuesday Morning         A comic book adaptation of a short story by Alex Farr... Robert has finally had it. Fed up with the boredom of his 9 to 5 cubicle existence, 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?

Tuesday Morning author: alex farr price: $2.00 + S.&H. Add to cart View cart

        

MPK   Artist MPK's blogspot...



RemyJ  A gallery of the artwork of Remy J



Smartass Press Production DVDs

Michael Loyd Gray
The works of another independent author, whose work I rather like.

Disaster Alert Display
A rather nifty Weather Information and Alert Services website.
  A project I was working on for a while, when the doldrums of the cab business became too much.
    A completely different form of writing... but, unless I get a lot of written requests- I don't think I'll be writing any short stories about using java to format Weather Feed Outputs (Once upon a time, there was a for-loop... which went through Weather Feed Outputs one character at a time- Unless!!, that character was a '-', in which case... I'm sure you see what I mean...)

Sign up with your cell phone number though, verify it back at the site once the system sends an auto text (I did that...), and it will text you with flood forecasts, hurricane warnings, tsunami warnings... all that good stuff.



The Chia Al Project
What can I say? I can hair farm with the best of them...
    I shaved my head, and most of my face. Then I let it grow. Each frame marks the passage of a month...

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  Burlingame, CA 94010

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  alex@smartasspress.com   or   rj@smartasspress.com

The following is a list of bookstores that have, at one time or another, carried Smartass Press titles.

    Some may still have some copies, for those who prefer a mortar and brick store. If you know of an independent bookstore that might be interested in stocking Smartass Press titles, please contact us.

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