Hapyy Accidents (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Jack: A boy. A real boy. He walked around the neighborhood shamelessly naked until age 10. He was shocked--shocked!--when he saw grownups smoking. He was puppy-brother to Newton, a golden retriever. He created his own alter-ego super-hero, Smell Man, and told tall tales of the Fire People who lived on a Fire Planet, and taught me how to dance in the streets to hell with what people may think. Oh, yeah. He almost died one night in a two-bit emergency room in Portand, Oregon. But did not. And he grew up strong and healthy, a high school and college wrestler.
• Lydia the Tattooed Lady Barista: Doesn't that say it all? You know?
• Newton: A golden retriever with very expressive eyebrows.
• Philo of Alexandria: A Jewish guy who lived 2,000 or so years ago. No, not that Jewish guy who lived 2,000 or so years ago. A different one.
• Fred Astair and Gene Kelly: Yes, those guys.

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• “"Sometimes we get what we want.""Sometimes, I think about why we suffer, and why we tell stories, and why we get tattoos.""Bumper stickers are smugly moralistic and self-absorbed. I could be wrong, but I suspect an American must be responsible. Possibly an Australian. But I cannot imagine anyone in Peru or Japan or Finland being the first to think, "Hey! I can print a terse message on opaque weather-resistant material with an adhesive backing then slap it on the bumper of my car and Shout My Truth® and Values™ to the World!""Voldemort is a Republican""Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.""I love Happy Accidents. A single Happy Accident has the rejuvenating power to keep me going for days, for weeks, and, at least 7 times in my Life, a single Happy Accident has kept me going for years. I live for Happy Accidents.""Watch me. Do what I do."”

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• My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass!' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.”—Harmon Killebrew

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. David Boyne (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Patty Kadel (Introduction)

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• Books › Entertainment › Humor
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Happy Accidents Book
• I Could Be Wrong, But...: David Boyne's blog site
• The official website of the writer David Boyne. Use at own risk.

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