Doug Rucker

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, I thought my former ideas and essays were important enough to be saved in this book. I couldn't see them wasting away in the computer or inaccessible in a notebook. I wanted to give them a life and let them be free to garner whatever brilliance or aversion is their due. In three articles, Body Surfing, Matusak and Raindrops on my Face, I have taken former prose and presented them.

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 prompted by my mother's gift of three tattered family photo albums, I was reminded of the past and suddenly wanted to remember everything of that far distant time. I started with my birth. It should organize easily. The outline would be chronological. In remembering everything, perhaps I indulged myself too much, but you be the judge. When I finished the book after writing about graduating from the University of Illinois, I felt, perhaps my life story could not be told in a mere three or four hundred pages. It looked very much like there would at least be a LATER STORIES. Doug Rucker

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 this book THE MILDLY AMUSING BOOK, but thinking again, that wouldn't do it justice. You might ask, "What is its justice?" It has no justice It's unjustifieable. With this mild warning and before you embark on this remarkable adventure, I say, "Travel at your own risk " Absorb the intelligence (or lack thereof) of whatever's in (or out) of this original copy of THE THROW-AWAY BOOK (Then throw it away.)

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-heart writing style as a playful, yet informative accompaniment, Thinking in the Abstract gives readers a unique, first-person, artist's perspective and offers a fresh approach to understanding and appreciating the world of abstract art.

Transitions is a delightful, entertaining chronicle of Doug Rucker's journey through photographic time. Containing a gallery's worth of artistic photos, Doug explains the thoughts that went into his work and offers his sometimes other-worldly interpretations of the scenes he's captured. Exploring three distinct phases of his work, Realistic, Reflections and Abstract, Doug's clever observations, wry, witty humor and vivid imagination will make you think, prompt a laugh and put a smile on your face.

Reflection Photos herein, are one-click shots that have been altered sometimes in Photoshop as to exposure, color, contrast, lightness, darkness saturation, shades and shadows and other methods I can find without further altering the artwork.- Doug Rucker

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 hold the planks of the ceiling and roof. Seeing the truthfulness in the construction of a building became one way buildings could freely give love to people. There are other ways as well. Ease of movement through the house, harmony in the house and surrounding yourself only with things you love are other ways of Building a Home that Loves You.

MAUDE is a loose character who's a bit scratchy. We think she lives outside, but where? She lets no grass grow under her feet, is extremely curious and can occasionally be found diving from a high board, or singing in an opera, or mistaking a bus for an airplane, or being shot out of a canon, or visiting Wonderland. For those who don't read, this book is for you There are no words If you understand the pictures, you'll appreciate the book. Hunker down and relish MAUDE

The 3 in 1 Book(1) - BOOK OF THOUGHTS - You will see the absurd complications of a client & psychiatrist, difficulties of a certain customer, the needless adventure of the scooter and squirrel, written tales of random humanity and simple hassles of chopping down a tree.(2) - COMPLETE BOOK OF FACKS - You will learn everything that's known in the world including Freedom is Ignorance. How to Avoid Reality, mathematics, music and facks like how a cold-water shower makes you smaller.(3) - THE LEFT OVER BOOK - You will thrill to Private Eyes, with Soxon Dunderwear, Lacy Lingerie and wonder dog Barf. You will be awestruck at Dictionary Poem Number One and another episode of Detective Bunny and his nerves of steel. Quiver and tremble to the audacity of Lorna Langleberry in Murder She Write, and be in love with The 3 in 1 Book

TALES OF THE WORTHWHILE DOGRUCKER'S FOREWORD: Can you imagine how tough it is for a dog to learn to write a book? I know I worked with him a whole year to teach him how to hold a pen in his paw, to roll his eyes to the ceiling in thought and chew on the eraser, to keep his paws and tail off the paper and so forth. If it hadn't been for me I don't think old Worthwhilecoulda' pulled It off. And how do you like that for a name anyway, WORTHWHILE Give me a break. WORTHWHILE'S RESPONSE: Rucker didn't help me at all I practically did the whole thing myself. Maybe he helped me on the paste-up, but for that I've got to give him credit in my book? I'm the one who has my own doghouse WITHa library. In the bottom drawer of my file cabinet I keep my notes and observations on silly activities of humans and it is these contents I wish to share with you in TALES OF THE WORTHWHILE DOG.

Bonk and what's next is a brilliantly conceived collection of illustrated stories, inventions, observations and miscellany by Roy Crandal (a pen-name for the author Doug Rucker), last years winner of the Pulitzer Surprise. Read between the lines and the author's mental state readily emerges, and, GOOD NEWS, it's not catching Read this book and you'll say as other have, "Hey Cowabunga, dude "

It is my belief we create memories to suit our survival and comfort needs at the time of remembering. That we rarely recall the truth on what took place, but based on those events, we rearrange, reorganize, embellish and change our recollections in the way we need or want them to be. These new remembrances and images then become the reality forming the basis of our new actions. What follows is my truth. I can readily accept the idea that it wasn't the same truth to another. Forgive me if I have left anything out or have not seen or expressed what might be another truth. Doug Rucker

If you are comfortable with off-the-wall dream-poems, scribbly diagrams suggesting meanings, several Maps to the Right Brain, and explorations into the depths of a man's soul, this book is for you. Apparently the author thought organization and planning expendable. It seems whatever drifted into the author's head was suitable for posterity. Who else would mix dream poetry, art, cartoons, weird essays, scribbly diagrams, and Maps to the Right Brain in one book? This "piece of art" is held together by lack of continuity. Read the neurotic efforts of a temporarily confused author, Doug Rucker, who, in addition, has come up with the puzzling title, CRANDALICUS? Good reading

About this book...Less thancomprehensive, perhaps, but discusses: When to corbell? Living with an eccentric bldg. Beam notching. Just a fad? The positive side of a negative moment. Psychology of the abnormal load. Passive-aggressive earth prewwure. When to risk horizontal Shear. This and more in Over-Simplified Engineering.

What's in this book?Detective Bunny leaps into action after the crook who stole the North Avenue Bridge. Someone doesn't get it in the adventures of Abraham, and it may be you. Enter eternity's door with Tom and Bernie in Shortcut to Nowhere. Just another bank hiest has a global twist in The Stick-up. Everyday Stuff with Jorge and Merle is mildly amusing, as is the non-verbal, Conversation between Hector and Globula. Ruth Guilless and Roy Crandal continue to interview to interview weirdow for Station KRUD and filling in the spaces are Acquired Taste Cartoons having no specific theme.What's in this book? Episodes only friends could love.