Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!

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With flowerpots on their heads, distinctive post-Kraftwerk imagery, and staggeringly catchy electro-pop riffs, Devo carved an '80s niche setting them apart from the mish-mash of punk, new wave and rock surrounding them. Dellinger interviewed band members and asso-ciates, ransacked their archives to provide illustrations, memorabilia and rare photographs documenting Devo's entire career, and re-evaluated their complete works to provide the most -exhaustive survey of the Devo phenomenon.

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are we not men?.......2006-11-12

This album just keeps getting better with age. A must have for any collection.

Duty Now more than ever.......2006-07-09

The authurs are very opinionated and they simply stop writing about what happened in the Devo story after the 3rd album. As a fan of Devo's Freedom of Choice era I find it sad the book ends when the bands success takes off and skims over the troubles with Warner Brothers, making the videos, downfall and Re-Evolution into TV and movie soundtracks at Mutato Muzika. There is a lot of information by former friends who have an ax to grind. Having said that there is a lot to learn about the early hardcore Devo recordings and the philosophy behind the band. Recomended until a documentary or better band history comes along.

Raed the last 2/3.......2005-04-18

The book is divided up in three sections: Head, Body, and Tail. The "head" section was very boring and hard to read. I put the book down for about 6 months, trying to get through this section. Once I got to "body" and "tail," the book flew. I found it very interesting, being a Devo fan from when I first saw them on Sat. Night Live, through New Traditionalists. Being from the Cleveland/Akron area, I also liked all the local references.

**WARNING** UN-AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY!!!.......2004-07-20

Having researched the band DEVO on several other occasions, I found it quite odd that most of the quotes from the band, I had actually read elsewhere. It initially made me wonder if the author had actually interviewed the band at all.

It wasn't until today when I read on the official DEVO site (www.clubdevo.com) that in Jerry Casale's very own words that it was IN FACT, an unauthorized biography. Here is what Jerry had to say:

"...the book was done without our approval or co-operation (most of the quotes were extracted from pre-existing sources and the short "interview" with me was done under a different pretext) .The book is loaded with mis-information, delusional distortions and outright lies perpetrated by people with axes to grind. The result is that the significance of the creative process that spawned the almost 100 songs that Mark and I wrote and the excitement of the concepts and aesthetic influences behind our stage shows, costumes and videos gets trivialized and even buried by petty and spiteful politics. These politics are perpetrated by people who often times weren't even involved in the events they spin so far afield but their spin is never-the-less swallowed by the book's writers hook line and sinker. Some day soon we will release another book that sets the record straight on what it meant to be DEVO. -- Gerald Casale."

Aside from all of this, even when I thought it was an authorized release, I found the author repeating information in a very unnecessary way. At least three times does he mention that Mark had an obsession with the Beatles. And he doesn't just mention it, he goes into depth about it. This was another thing that made me wonder if they were just short on material.

The cover I found a little boring, and not well-designed. Another warning that I did not heed.

I'm very disappointed that I actually paid money for this book, not to mention spending hours pouring over it. I would highly recommend passing this one by, as it would be a terrible waste to support the fools who wrote it.

Too Much Still Unwritten.......2004-06-21

I was pretty disappointed in this book. I used to just love these guys back in high school, but this book doesn't go far enough. I was 3/4 of the way finished before I got to the days when they made it big. Too much on Jerry's early days, a lot of Jerry everywhere! As usual, the Bobs, especially Bob 2, and Alan are in the back somewhere, and you wonder what's up with them. Nothing revealing, other than Bob 2 apparently left his wife when they began to hit it big, Bob 1 was a drinker, and Jerry is an even bigger creep than I imagined. Some good details into the first "video" and who some of the people in them were, but nothing on the videotapes with Rod and Donut. No mention of Laraine Newman, their fascination with donuts and pirates, how their politics always seemed so leftist yet they just wanted to make big bucks and now run Big Entertainment companies, etc etc. Nothing about the concept of the power domes, who the fat kid on the exercise machine was, Bob 1's daughter being on the Shout LP cover, so much is left out. Some good pics, but I'm sure more could have been dug up. Sounds like the authors did most research via telephone interviews. They talked to General Boy, but I did that back in the 80s, when a friend and I rang him up on the phone! We lived in Ohio then and both Robert and his wife would chat with us like we were old friends! I'm mixed. There are some great old insights and pieces of trivia, but it really could have been longer and told more about the 80s and on. Devotees should get it because nothing else is there, but be prepared to feel like you've had a delicious appetizer without dinner.
Later thoughts: The book that Devo was so fascinated with, "The Beginning Was The End" and the basis for their De-evolution theory, has anyone else read it? I found a copy and it's wretched. The author uses photos to compare blacks with various apes! Why were they so interested in this book?! And I forgot about Jerry's "I was standing there was my friend was killed" story. According to the book he stretches the truth quite often. So was he there or is he making this up too? I agree with another reviewer that said he would be basically pushing up daisies before listening to the last couple of albums! The first two were great, the rest, a few good songs, but popish. Musik for Insomniaks bored me silly, I can see where it got the title. This book may be out of print after this run, so pass it around like a Casale galpal!

Are We Not Men?: Masculine Anxiety and the Problem of African American Identity

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Are We Not Men?: Masculine Anxiety and the Problem of African American Identity
Phillip Brian Harper
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ASIN: 0195126548

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In 1995, popular anxieties about black masculinity became evident in public reactions to the conclusion of the OJ Simpson trial and the Million Man March on Washington. The nation's divided response to the OJ verdict, together with the controversy surrounding Louis Farrakhan's call to black men to come together for a "day of atonement" brought issues of race and gender to the forefront of national debate. In his timely and incisive book Are We Not Men?, Phillip Brian Harper explores issues of race and representation and shows that ideas about black masculinity have always played a troubled role both in the formation of African-American identity and in the mass media at large. What is at stake when a picture of OJ Simpson is darkened on the cover of Time magazine? Why is AIDS still seen as a white gay disease when a quarter of deaths from AIDS from 1981-1991 were among black males? Using examples from a variety of cultural contexts, ranging from sports and pop music to literature and television, Harper investigates these questions in an effort to show the ways in which narrow definitions of black manhood have failed to acknowledge real differences within the African-American community--to grave social and political effect. He examines recent phenomena, such as reactions to ABC anchorman Max Robinson's AIDS-related death and Magic Johnson's HIV status, as well as the homophobia and chauvinism of the Black Arts movement of the '60s and '70s, the construction of black "crossover" identity from Motown and Diana Ross to Run-DMC and MTV and the way that "street" authenticity is incorporated into Michael Jackson's choreography. He unravels the gender politics behind the "passing" novels of the Harlem Renaissance, scrutinizes black masculinity as seen through the eyes of the white protagonist of the 1961 autobiographical narrative Black Like Me and explores early representations of African Americans on television shows like "Julia" and "Room 222." Upholding the recent success of drag performer RuPaul, who demonstrates the limits of traditional notions of black masculinity by openly defying them, Harper suggests that popular culture is able to transcend its own representations and points to a future in which "black male" is no longer a homogenizing term. An original, far-reaching and ultimately humane work of cultural criticism, Harper's book argues convincingly that there are no innocent texts, and forces us to reexamine the culture that surrounds us. Are We Not Men? will find a wide audience among those interested in American and African-American cultural studies, gender studies and gay/lesbian studies.

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famous scholar, great topic, terrible book.......2001-09-02

I didn't like this book at all. I thought it said very little about masculinity and African-American men. Harper is practically the best-known black gay male scholar out there and yet almost every book about gay black men that I've ever read was better than this one. This book is buried in tedious literary criticism. When I think of this book, only two words come to mind, "poor" and "disappointment."

Men Are Pigs, But We Love Bacon: Not-So-Straight Answers from America's Most Outrageous Gay Sex Columnist

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Much To Do About Virtually Nothing.
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Men Are Pigs, But We Love Bacon: Not-So-Straight Answers from America's Most Outrageous Gay Sex Columnist
Michael Alvear
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ASIN: 0758202857

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If You're Looking For Warmth And Compassion About Your Sexual Worries, You Picked The Wrong Book... Yes, you'll get all your burning and why-is-it-burning questions answered, but the advice is coming from a son-of-a-bitch with a breathtaking gift for the gratuitous insult.

In these pages, you'll find medical answers to everything from how you can ejaculate farther to how you can take--ahem--more cargo on your loading dock. Alvear answers questions with the compassion of a caffeine addict out of coffee, lining up a panel of doctors and psychologists against the wall and beating the truth out of them. The result is a marriage of impeccably accurate information, politically incorrect opinion and withering sarcasm.

Because the questions come from gay men all over the country, they're like a peephole into the anxieties, concerns and worries that gay men have about sex.

Here's a sampling of what you'll learn: ... Only 6% of the population need extra-large condoms. Get over it.

... The average erect penis is 5" long and 4.8" around. Unless you're in a chat room. Then double it.

... Kegel exercises will give you harder hard-ons and more powerful orgasms. But then, so will an 18-year-old.

... 50% of men on anti-depressants experience sexual side effects.

And no, having an affair is not considered a side effect you can blame on medicine.

With buzz-saw wit, Men Are Pigs, But We Love Bacon will leave you laughing, howling, and knowing everything you need to know about sex.

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Straight Women Love This Book.......2006-08-29

While reading "How to Get a Six-Figure Cash Advance," by Susan Harrow, I came across a one-page example of pitch letter on "Men Are Pigs, But We Love Bacon."

The title alone evokes such curiosity and expectation that I just had to get a copy of this book.

And this book kept me laughing and saying, "Oh really? If this is the case for gay men, I wonder about straight men."

"Men Are Pigs, But We Love Bacon," is a compilation of Alvear's letters and advice from his advice column, written for gay men.

He asserts that he writes this column "the way men talk about sex - brutally, with a sense of entitlement, and a breathtaking gift for the gratuitous insult."

One of the many hilarious statements that Alvear makes in this book is, "We're the only group I know that can make the pursuit of plain old dog-yard scrumping sound like some noble, spiritual quest for a better life. ... Both gay men and straight men are afraid to admit we want to have a much sex with as many people as we can. Where we diverge is in the strategies we use to cover up our inconvenient natures. Straight men pretend they don't really feel that way; gay men admit they feel that way but for righteous reasons."

I tested the interest of this topic on both straight men and straight women, by saying things like, "Have you heard of the empty toilet paper roll test?" And by reading this book in public - the yellow cover with large black letters garnered a great deal of attention.

This book intrigues the straight and the gay. Alvear says that gay men are more obsessed with their penis size than straight men. And for those who aren't sure what size "sock" to use on their penis, Alvear advices sticking it in an empty toilet paper roll - if it doesn't go over the length, the man is not extra large.

From the first page to the last, I loudly laughed, and learned a great deal about the psychological and medical issues of men (gay and straight) that despite the in-your-face language used by Alvear, this book is an excellent one for readers from age 18 and up, no matter your persuasion.

Much To Do About Virtually Nothing........2005-06-20

Mildly entertaining....modestly informative...mostly silly....more often inane. Save your money!

Going Hog Wild in Bed.......2003-05-31

This book is too crude for words. I was genuinely shocked by some of the language. But that aside, you can't help but laugh at Alvear's observations of the male psyche. I like the formatting of the book: Questions are bolded; answers are not, making it easier on the eyes. Also, the questions and answers average about 400 words, making it easy on the brain.

Although it was clearly not written for women, I was fascinated with the book. Gay men not only own `the equipment' but spend most of their waking hours trying to figure out how to provide pleasure to other owners of the equipment. So it stands to reason that women have a lot to learn from gay men.

My favorite question is the only one in the book from a heterosexual man. He wanted to know if his "pretending to be gay to get chicks" was ethical. If the question doesn't hit you over the head with the way men think, Alvear's answer will: "Unethical? It's brilliant."

For gay men this book is a no-brainer buy. It's got facts (Only 6% of men need extra-large condoms) and wit ("the best way to make your partner more sexually attractive? Try the dimmer switch") galore. For women however, I'd back off unless you have a high threshold for trash talk. But then, that's the point of the book-to portray the way men REALLY talk about sex. Besides, the title is priceless.

How to Crumble Men into Bacon Bits.......2003-05-31

The book is a collection of sex advice questions the author tackled in a nationally syndicated column. Alvear has a breathtaking gift for the gratuitous insult ("You want to know how to make your boyfriend more attractive in bed? Try the dimmer switch") but every once in a while, you see another aspect, which is surprising after a string of insulting one-liners: sensitivity. It's like there's an "inner kitten" in his "roaring lion" persona. Take this moving answer on a question about AIDS: "Life isn't worth living without sex, but sex isn't worth dying over. Every gay man lives in relationship to this suffocating contradiction. Every new HIV infection is a gong that vibrates through the gay community, reminding us of our awful dilemma."

In chapters ranging from cruising ("How to Stalk Your Prey") to [release] ("The Utter Cream: How to Milk Your Man") Alvear peppers us with humor-laced facts. Average erect size? 5.1 inches. "Unless you're in a chat room," he writes. "Then double it."

Men are Pigs is a hilarious read, but take cover if you're easily offended. If this book were a radio station the FCC would pull its license for constantly barking out the seven words you're not allowed to say on the air.

It'll Even Help Women Eat High on the Hog.......2003-05-31

Though I have lots of gay friends I'm not in the habit of reading gay books. But the title was too good to pass up. Besides, I've always wondered what gay men know about sex that women don't. A lot, it turns out. For instance, I didn't realize that the single most useful thing men can do to improve their sex life is what gynecologists recommend to pregnant women: Kegel exercises.

Answering letters from all over the country, Alvear artfully combines irreverence with medical facts. To a reader asking if it's possible for men to develop yeast infections, he writes, "Yes, you can get it through trauma to the penis. And by trauma, I don't mean the kind where the ugly one in the three-way keeps getting in the way. I mean, trauma as in excessive masturbation."

With an advisory board of medical doctors, Alvear bootlegs facts into his Dan Savage-like rants. For example, in his most controversial chapter, "Drugs & Alcohol: Substance Abuse or Seduction Technique?" Alvear gleefully recommends the "responsible" use of alcohol because "It'll get you up his crack faster than a thong." But then he cautions us with an important fact: Impotence will start setting in after three and a half drinks for the average 150-lbs man.

While I was put off by how graphic the book was, I have to admit that I laughed out loud-a lot. The book is filled with a quirky blend of medical facts, insulting humor, and politically incorrect rants. What keeps it from descending into stand-up shtick is the genuine insights into the male psyche. Alvear even answers the question women have been asking themselves for eternity: Why won't men commit? "Men think of relationships as a bacon and eggs breakfast," he writes. "The chicken is involved; the pig is committed. Men want to be involved."

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I've A Feeling We're Not In Kansas Anymore: Tales from Gay Manhattan (Stonewall Inn Editions) (Stonewall Inn Editions)
Ethan Mordden
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Ethan Mordden investigates the stories that gay life in the city engenders -- the fantasies, the secrets, the fears, the joys. Ultimately all the stories are about love, and Mordden is a master at painting love with a delicate brush.

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"We have traded tales, my buddies and I; of affairs, encounters, secrets, fears, self-promotion-of fantasies that we make real in the telling." In this, the first volume in Ethan Mordden's acclaimed trilogy on Manhattan gay life, he introduces a small group of friends-Dennis Savage, Little Kiwi, Carlos, and the narrator, Bud-and chronicles their exploration of the new world of gay life and the new people they are in the process of becoming.In a voice at once ironic, wistful, witty, and profound, Mordden investigates his suspicion that all of gay life is stories and that, somehow or other, all these stories are about love.

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Hits and misses.......2006-12-04

I recently re-read this book for the second time after reading it when it first was published, almost 20 years ago. I find that this book is both entertaining and interminable. This is a collection of several short stories, and the first to feature stories about the "Family," which feature the characters of Bud, Dennis Savage, Carlo, and Little Kiwi (Virgil). Those stories are the finest in this book. The other stories are a mixed bag -- the final entry, "The Disappearance of Roger Ryder," I couldn't even finish (and I TRIED!). I'm looking forward to "Buddies," and eventually the rest of the books about the "Family."

made me the fag hag I am today.......2006-10-24

I read this in high school. This was one of the first peices of gay "literature" I ever read and I fell totally in love with it (and what I imagined gay culture to be). Elitist, warm, fun and fantastical. I'm re-reading it now and I'm on Amazon looking for more work by the author. I hope I find something just as good.

Gay Microcosm.......2005-09-30

I loved 'How Long Has This Been Going On' I thought it was a fantastic collection of characters and an accurate and revealing look at the gay lifestyle. The same can be said for this I guess, but in the much more specific microcosm of mainly fire island.Threaded together by a narrator named Bud, the book becomes collected stories from his friends and their varied experiences in and out of love. I couldn't help but wish by the end that the book was a simple straight narrative as opposed to short stories. The problem was that while some were very entertaining, others I found boring, and 22 years after it's been published the ideas no longer resonate as fresh. I think for me, the book is best approached as a time piece of a culture that morphs as quickly as the lights on the dance floor.

This book will hook you.......2001-06-05

While the title might seem a little trite, it wasn't when the book was published and the vignettes told within are certain to hook the reader into reading and following the exploits of the members of this crew of buddies as they live their lives on the Manhattan-Fire Island axis of the 1970s. I caught myself laughing out loud on the train reading these stories, especially some of the actions of Little Kiwi; the interaction between the characters is so masterful that either Mordden is an incredible chronicler of his surroundings or has one of the most amazing imaginations of any fiction writer ever. The reader can picture the events vividly and they are believable. Highly recommended, and this book will hook you into reading the other three in the series, and hunger for more when they are completed.

The "Buddies" Cycle Begins With A Quiet Bang.......1999-01-06

Ethan Mordden's first entry in his decade-long series could easily have stood on its own as simply a collection of short stories, some of which share the same characters and continue situations. Fortunately for us, it is just the beginning, a somewhat modest introdction to his world. He lightheartedly tells of friendship and growing up and painfully yet without bitterness details the diffculty of maintaining a longterm gay relationship in a gay world that is still obsessed with sex and yet falling apart for that very reason. His characters are interesting, well drawn, and extremely well spoken always having the witty response and the snappy one-liner ready in any situation. Like real people, which no doubt they are, this group plans for the future, fears the present, and recalls its youth with fondness. I first read Ethan Mordden and "I've A Feeling We're Not In Kansas Anymore" when it was published in paperback in 1987. I was twenty and had grown up in a very rural setting and had moved to a fairly large city where here seemed to be something going on, but which I knew nothing about. I found the book at a local store and devoured it the same day having come across something I had never seen before. This wass the real life that I knew existed, but which seemed hidden and forcefully so. While it is not a book to educate the young gay male or the recently out gay male, it does tells not only of gay life in New York before AIDS, but also chronicles the universal establishment of a circle of friends that often becomes family in a most entertaining and literate fashion. Mordden is laugh-out-loud funny at times, culturally superior at times, and even lays on the line some of his great sadnesses and disappointments creating a widely multi-faceted picture of the life he knows and lives

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The best collection I've read since Tobias Wolfe's The Night

Are We Not Men ?
Brent Spencer
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The Lost Son

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The characters in these edgy, slick stories are all suffering from identity crises or illusions of one sort or another, like the convict in "Babyman" whose girlfriend convinces him, falsely, that she's pregnant in order to con him out of his meager savings and who finds that he can't give up the idea of his imaginary child. Or the B-movie fan for whom the viewing of "Island of Lost Souls" (the 1932 horror classic in which the beast-men of the mad surgeon's laboratory chant "Are we not men?") provides the defining moment of his otherwise dreary existence. Hovering between comedy and despair, Spencer creates characters on the edge of finding bliss--or losing it completely.

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The best collection I've read since Tobias Wolfe's The Night.......1998-10-05

The best collection I've read since Tobias Wolfe's The Night in Question. Like Wolfe, Spencer manages the deft trick of taking on matters of real heft with a light and even comic hand. And unlikemost collections, Spencer's has a satisfying cumulative effect--its early squinty-eyed perspective slowly relaxes to offer a wider and more hopeful field of vision. As entertaining and moving as Spencer's Lost Son, which is saying something. --A reader in Fallbrook, California.

Are We Not Also Men?: The Samkange Family & African Politics in Zimbabwe, 1920-64 (Social History of Africa Series)

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Are We Not Also Men?: The Samkange Family & African Politics in Zimbabwe, 1920-64 (Social History of Africa Series)
Terence Ranger
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Paper Edition. This collective biography of a father and his two sons illuminates much of the history of both elite and mass politics in colonial Zimbabwe.

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Are We Not Men
Phillip Brian Harper
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I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore, Buddies, Everybody loves you

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I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore, Buddies, Everybody loves you
Ethan Mordden
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cover / are we not men.(Music - Articles): An article from: Winnipeg Free Press

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cover / are we not men.(Music - Articles): An article from: Winnipeg Free Press
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Reengineering Levi Strauss & Co.: we met the enemy and it was us.: An article from: Human Resource Planning

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Reengineering Levi Strauss & Co.: we met the enemy and it was us.: An article from: Human Resource Planning
Thomas M. Kasten
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This digital document is an article from Human Resource Planning, published by Human Resource Planning Society on September 1, 1998. The length of the article is 1090 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Market leader Levi Strauss and Co. decided to reorganize in the early 1990s. This decision was reached as the company then was beginning to feel the pains of competition in terms of falling market share and customer satisfaction with its products but not its services. The reengineering came in three phases. The first phase involved an initial focus on improved customer service. The second was the redesign and implementation planning stage which called for changes in personnel and functions. The last phase was the implementation phase which was carried out starting 1995.

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