Max Reynolds failed as a writer. Yet Max Reynolds continues to write. He must write every day or he will sink into an almost catatonic depression. This is Max Reynolds' story, told mainly through samples of his writing.

Ingenious tickling machines, one hundred point bucks, knife fights at class reunions, death metal bands having deep philosophy discussions, law-breaking poster tricks, a blues guitarist meeting Eric Clapton in the form of Barack Obama, flying quad-runners, world record back busters, 'That Man is a Sinner' by Jason Earls has it all.

Chapters: The Harvard Calculating Savant (fiction), Iterating Summation of Digits of Divisors to Reach 15, '60000006' in the Decimal Expansion of Pi^e, Primes Made from Powers of Ten and Fibonacci Numbers, 1729 and Brilliant Numbers as Sums of Two Cubes, On Factorials and Squares, The Famous Frank Cole Factorization and Repunits Squared Factorizations, Ten's Complements of Brilliant Numbers, Fractal Art, The 379009 Upside Down Calculator-Word Prime, Palindrome*2+1 To Get Another Palindrome, A Cautionary Tale On Collaboration, Smarandache Car Prime, The Sopfr(n) Earls Conjecture, A Challenge for Mrs. Thornburgette (fiction) Jason Earls is a guitarist, computational number theorist, and concrete poet. He is the author of the Underground Guitar Handbook, Numbers for Wittgenstein, Red Zen, Math Freak, How to Become a Guitar Player from Hell, and other books.

After being attacked by a homeless man, Roger Treebolt discovers a strange list of information that soon gives him insomnia. Enter Frank, a mysterious man in an orange raincoat who flies Roger to a secluded cave in the mountains, where he's introduced to Morzan the Slayer and his Telaheens, and quickly learns of a dangerous alien conspiracy. After a short conversation with God, Roger Treebolt receives a supernatural number sequence plus a powerful weapon, and soon enough an intense battle is underway... (Three bonus short stories also included.)

If you've ever wanted to learn the newest "underground" and innovative guitar methods, this handbook is for you. Filled with cutting-edge and avant-garde techniques, the Underground Guitar Handbook contains detailed explanations and musical examples of such topics as: four-finger licks, unusual scales, diminished licks, tremolo bar flutters and gurgles, the wah-wham method, tritones and flatted fifths, Shawn Lane's "impossible" chord, speed-picking licks, pedal point phrases, new hardware ideas, atonal patterns, mysticism, finger-tapping licks, and much more. Links to the author's youtube videos in which he performs the techniques are also provided, (plus a handful of musical short stories for additional entertainment). For learning the most cutting-edge guitar techniques (many never before published), this manual is all you will ever need.