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Doug Rucker's latest, and perhaps final opus, is a touching, thoughtful, and often-humorous compilation of "found" essays and poems about life, aging, the universe and the meaning of it all, presented as a lively conversation between old friends.

After making eight, one hundred-page comedy books with cartoons and humorous essays and giving them to friends, and doing enough poetry to fill a four-hundred page book, I finally had the desire remember the past and think maybe I could write it. I'd tell myself the EARLY STORIES of my life. At the age of sixty-five and prompted by my mother's gift of three tattered family photo albums, I was reminded of the past and suddenly wanted to remembe...

Catchall is a catch of all the variety of my past unorganized thoughts and philosophies. During the last-period of years, I've been writing myself letters and essays about what's gone on in my mind and what I think and believe with a little humor and a few dreams. However, such a variety of thoughts and ideas did not make a single simple topic that might make a single simple book. Pressed with new ideas that would now make a more cohesive book...

In this book may be found poetries derived from three sources: abstract art, new poems and those copied directly from short prose and put into poetic form. Having discovered abstract art through my own photography, I have taken a poetic approach to find out what each artwork means. I'm not sure I found out, but the idea stimulated my imagination and this book was created. New verses followed as in most poems as a record of whatever feelings we...

Doug Rucker, in divorce proceedings while being madly in love with a mother of four, was also heavily involved in introspection and psychotherapy. With a persistent artistic temperament it dawned on Doug that if he did a series of drawings with no thought whatever, (No-Think) they'd give him access to his unconscious mind, thus leading him to quicker solutions to his problems. Fifty years later, Doug now makes a more detailed analysis of his d...

Growing Edge is the third in a series of autobiography written by the famous mid-century architect, Doug Rucker. In his own words, After making eight, one hundred-page comedy books with cartoons and humorous essays and giving them to friends, and doing enough poetry to fill a four-hundred page book, I finally had the desire remember the past and think maybe I could write it. I'd tell myself the stories of my life. At the age of sixty-five and ...

Learn about THE THROW-AWAY BOOK (If you want.)You might want to throw this book away right now! But again, you might want to leaf through the pages, then throw it away and mutter, "I don't have time for this!" However, you might be intrigued and see the true worth of this rare book, then throw it away. Or you might be sitting on a bench avoiding work while finishing a coffee-break and decide to be mildly amused. In fact, I thought of calling t...

In Thinking in the Abstract, award-winning artist, author and architect Doug Rucker shares his thoughts on what makes art either abstract, realistic or a combination of both, and provides insight into his methodology of appreciating abstract art by considering the intention of the artist and studying the physical artwork. With dozens of examples of Doug's colorful and wondrous abstract photographic art at its core, and with his light, from-the...

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THE AUTHOR SAYS when anyone reads this book they'll jump up and say HOWDIE! Read sensational interviews by Roy Crandal and Ruth Guiless such as The Dead Sea Scrolls and how they died, the vanishing of Hidden Valley Estates and Leviticus who thinks he's the Almighty. They'll leave you weeping with laughter. Did you know doing bank statements can lead to heart attacks? THRILL to How Colorado Got its Name, Swamp Drama and Semi-True Detective Stor...

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Do you long to be a dog, thrill to immortality, enjoy endless naps, regular feeding? If you do, this book is for you. Join Jorgie and Merle in Doug Rucker's second GREAT comedy adventure series A Book About Everyday Stuff. Turn the page, TODAY. Woof! Woof!

Doug Rucker, a Malibu architect, partnered with a WW II veteran to build a mid-cenury modern house for sale, intending to start a side business for fun and profit. It would be on a promontory beneath three-thousand foot mountains with views of ocean, Surfrider Beach, Movie Colony, laggon, Monastery, Catalina and the sparkling "Queens Necklace" of Santa Monica Bay. But, an unexpected death precipitated an emotional family crisis with loss of bu...

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Responding to the return in popularity of Post-and-Beam architecture, Doug Rucker, having enjoyed a 54-year career as a Malibu house-architect, uses his own work as illustrations to discuss the philosophy of what is now called Mid-Century architecture. The name Post-and-Beam originally derived from a new way of seeing truth in architecture, posts rise from the foundation between wall-to-wall glass that grasps beams that support planks that hol...

OFF THE WALL Having an interest in abstract photographic art, that is, art without recognizable objects. I wanted to do an artistic piece that was meaningful and yet with no recognizable objects. Of course, in photography I'm forced to photograph something. Though no doubt obvious to others, the other day I had an epiphany. I was startled to become aware that the Photoshop program, like oils, pastels and watercolors, was a medium. Well, hello!...

It was long my contention that if anyone should take the time to write about 62, 000 consecutive words (about the size of an average book) off the top of his/her head, a reader could learn a great deal about the writer and the writer could learn even more about him/her self. When I got into it, I discovered consecutive words turned into arbitrary essays, some humorous, some autobiographical, some philosophic. Since that's the way it...