I Just Want to be Invited - I Promise Not to Come!: (Life in One-liners) - Softcover

Gillis, Verna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0988409496 ISBN 13: 9780988409491

Publisher: KICK BUTT BALL, 2012

Synopsis

Humorist, Verna Gillis, 70, lets us know that SEVENTY IS THE NEW SEVENTY .. She is a one-liner kind of person who thinks in bumper stickers. You will laugh, identify and think of people you might not want to remember, as well as those you love. Laughing , as we know, is a good thing. Laughing at ourselves is essential . To the point – sometimes sharp; never flat.

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About the Author

Verna Gillis has been performing monologues with material from TALES FROM GERIASSIC PARK – On the Verge of Extinction a one-woman show in development. Her niche is aging! Most recently she is the “imaginator” of KICK BUTT BALL Squeeze Me – Get a Grip! – a stress/exercise ball. She wrote the jingle and is featured in the senior video version. www.kickbuttball.com Verna Gillis, Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology has released 27 lps/cd/s on the Smithsonian Folkways and Lyrichord labels based on her field work. She is the founder/director of SOUNDSCAPE which started as a performance space in NYC from 1979 – 1983 . SOUNDSCAPE was the first US presenter of “world music” in 1983 with King Sunny Ade which was called “…the pop event of the decade.” She went on to produce and develop career of the great artists Youssou Ndour, Carlinhos Brown, Salif Keita, Yomo Toro and Roswell Rudd, her present collaborator.

Edition details

• Publisher: KICK BUTT BALL
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0988409496
• ISBN 13: 9780988409491
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 82