Presentations on definite flatulence book slated for Chicago, Webster Groves, as well as Missouri Wine Country this Fall.
Flatulence is something people don’t want to talk about. A taboo in mass media for years, there are a number of “firsts” when it comes to free expression and flatulence. Well-known names are associated with those “fart firsts.”
Whoopi Goldberg broke a barrier in comedy for females with her flatulence comedy. Director Mel Brooks broke the mold in movies with his fart scene in “Blazing Saddles.” Shock jock Howard Stern broke a sound barrier with his flatulence antics on the radio waves.
I Fart in Your General Direction: Flatulence in Popular Culture, now breaks new ground as a definitive work about the entire flatulence movement with commentary on the work of Stern, Brooks, Goldberg and many, many more.
Author Don Corrigan is presenting his flatulence tale at several venues, now that the book has finally rolled off the presses.
Professor Emeritus Don Corrigan will present at the Popular Culture Association conference Oct. 6-8 in Chicago. He will focus on flatulence in literature from Fielding to Shakespeare to Mark Twain, with special emphasis on new flatulence humor of female comedians.
Copies of Corrigan’s treatise, Flatulence in Popular Culture, will be available for signing and for sale at the Blumenhof Winery at a music event from 6-8 p.m. Sept. 29 in Dutzow, Mo. The hills of Missouri Wine Country will be alive with musical vineyard fruit.
Corrigan will also do a signing at the Webster Groves Bookshop from 12:30- 2:30 p.m. Nov. 4. The books are available on Amazon and locally at Novel Neighbor and Webster Groves Bookshop.
For those who wonder what flatulence has to do with the outdoor, environmental and nature topics usually covered by environmentalecho.com, there are plenty of tie-ins within the pages of this exhaustive work on flatulence.
Among the relevant concerns:
• Dinosaur farts may have played a role in the extinction of these amazing reptiles. The book examines the theory that T-Rex and his buddies may have “fouled their own nest” to the detriment of a once sustainable environment.
• Bovine flatulence may have dire consequences today. Global methane emissions from livestock farts are enormous. Methane from bovine farts is an especially destructive greenhouse gas and difficult to capture or neutralize.
• Every cow expels in the neighborhood of 30 to 50 gallons of methane on a daily basis. This fact becomes all the more alarming with the realization that there are about 1.5 billion cows roaming the planet.
• Politicians who embrace calls for fewer livestock farts, and more healthy diets for humans, are getting pushback. They’re meeting stiff resistance.
• Sebastian Gorka told the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2019 that “climate loonies” threaten the American lifestyle: “They want to take your pickup truck. They want to rebuild your home. They want to take away your hamburgers.
The coming “hamburger-gate” brouhaha over bovine methane bombs is just a tiny smidgeon of the flatulence content contained in I Fart in Your General Direction: Flatulence in Popular Culture.
Is there a growing movement to end the American freedom to bite into a Big Mac, a Whopper, a Butter Burger or a White Castle? Will flatulence concerns end the era of the Big Boy, the Steakburger, the Quarter Pounder with Cheese?
Read about all aspects of flatulence emissions – and the role of farts in high culture, low culture, pop culture and the American mass media – in the definitive book now in our literary culture: I Fart in Your General Direction: Flatulence in Popular Culture.
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