Sock Puppet Madness

Sock Puppet Madness
Marty Allen (Author)

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Puppets & Puppetry

It's a simple equation: old sock + craft foam x glue = a collection of the most amazing incredible, outrageous, awe-inspiring sock puppets you've ever seen. Sock Puppet Madness includes 35 of the most fun, outlandish, off-the-wall and enchanting characters on the planet, and by following the simple step-by-step instructions, you'll be able to put together your own puppet in no time. Take Bawston the ornery cat puppet, for example. He's a baseball fan with a questionable temper, so watch what you say to him. A more friendly guy is Sebastian Metaphor. He may seem aloof with his hipster appearance but behind those sleepy eyes lies a heart of gold. If you're a sophisticated sort why not have a crack at Penelope Durtlinger, an heiress to a small fortune with an insatiable thirst for power. All the puppets are so simple to create, using just a few readily available materials that cost next to nothing - plus everyone has an old sock they can use, right? So what are you waiting for? Buy this now and make your own collection of sock puppets and join in the fun. And once you've made all the projects, why not create your own characters based on friends and family, too.

• Rank: #659825 in Books
• Published on: 2013-03-14
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Description #1 by shopoin.info:

"Boy meets dot-com, boy falls for dot-com, boy flees dot-com in horror. So goes one of the most perversely hilarious love stories you will ever read, one that blends tech culture, hero worship, cat litter, Albanian economics, venture capitalism, and free bagels into a surreal cocktail of delusion. In 1998, when Amazon.com went to temp agencies to recruit people, they gave them a simple directive: send us your freaks. Mike Daisey -- slacker, onetime aesthetics major, dilettante -- seemed perfect for the job. His ascension from lowly temp to customer service representative to business development hustler over the course of twenty-one dog years is the stuff of both dreams and nightmares. With lunatic precision, Daisey describes the lightless cube farms in which book orders were scrawled on Post-its while technicians struggled to bring computers back online; the fourteen-hour days fueled by caffeine, fanaticism, and illicit day-trading from office desks made from doors; his strange compulsion to send free books to Norwegians; and the fevered insistence of BizDev higher-ups that the perfect business partner was Pets.com -- the now-extinct company that spent all its assets on a sock puppet. In these pages, you'll meet Warren, the cowboy of customer service, capable of verbally hog-tying even the most abusive customer; Amazon employee #5, a reclusive computer gamer worth a cool $300 million, who spends at least six hours a day locked in his office killing goblins; and Jean-Michele, Mike's girlfriend and sparring partner, who tries to keep him grounded, even as dot-com mania seduces them both. At strategic intervals, the narrative is punctuated by hysterically honest letters to CEO Jeff Bezos -- missives that seem ripped from the collective unconscious of dot-com disciples the world over. 21 Dog Years is an epic story of greed, self-deception, and heartbreak, a wickedly funny anthem to an era of bounteous stock options and boundless insanity.File Size: 1827 KBPrint Length: 224 pages Publisher: Free Press (June 17, 2002) Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales IncLanguage: EnglishASIN: B000FBJFBO"

Description #2 by eBay:

author martyn allen format paperback language english publication year 14 02 2013 subject leisure lifestyle subject 2 handicrafts arts crafts goddings limited presents sock puppet madness isbn 190886267 x author marty allen publisher cico books date 2013 03 14 seller sku bert 1908862679 qty available 1 format paperback condition new notes brand new book will ship 1 st class to the uk or airmail worldwide airmail 2 7 day approximate shipping time please view our shopfront for more details on post

Description #3 by TextbookX.com:

Step aside, Dilbert. In this satiric excursion into the bloated underbelly of the New Economy, Mike Daisey exposes a corporate world too absurd for the cartoons. Daisey, who labored for 21 dog years (almost two human ones) at Amazon.com, chronicles with lunatic precision his ascent from lowly temp to customer service rep to business development hustler--from the lightless cube farms where he rebelled by sending free books to Norwegians to the halls of BizDev, where the higher-ups insisted that the perfect business model was Pets.com, the company that showered all its assets on a sock puppet. Wickedly funny and alarmingly true, 21 Dog Years is an epic story of greed, self-deception, and heartbreak--an anthem to a bygone era of bounteous stock options and boundless insanity. Author: Daisey, Mike ISBN-10: 074323815X