Month: April 2016

  • Jeanetics: A New Theory of Evolution

     

     

    Image: Photo of suddenly-fashionable blue-jeans, 20 years in the making!
    Carl’s famous blue jeans

    Holes In My Pants

    The Hole Truth About Blue Jeans and the Secret to Becoming a Fashion Plate on a Cautious Budget!

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  • Publisher’s notebook 001

    Introducing the author: Carl Dow blogs

    By Geoffrey Dow

    Carl Dow, the man behind the BumblePuppy Press’ first book, and the editor and publisher of the online news magazine True North Perspective, has adding blogging to his repertoir. To celebrate, we are offering the e-book version of the Old Man’s Last Sauna for the special low price of only US$1.99!

    Click below to visit Smashwords, where you can buy the book in whichever format you prefer. (Or click here to order an autographed copy of the paperback.)

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    Carl’s first blog is an account of a singular dinner party, at which Socrates was certainly not in attendance. Clicking here to read The Silence of Sounds. And please check back next week for another!

  • The Silence of Sounds

    They talked but no one listened

    By Carl Dow

    Image: Portrait of Carl Dow by Lena Wilson Endicott, 1995.
    Portrait of the author, by the late Lena Wilson Endicott, 1995.

    It was a private dinner for four. A doctor, an architect, a machinist, and me.

    We had worked our way through the appetizer and were into the main course.

    The doctor, a specialist in psychiatry, held her end of the table.

    “I really shouldn’t be saying this. Confidentiality and all that. But since you don’t know him, and I’m certain, will never meet him, I feel I can speak openly without actually breaking our privacy code. (more…)