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Guy Jacobs

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About Me

www.hardboiledmen.com****************** Are you still wondering why he never called you back?Get into the convoluted mind of the single man. Read Hard-Boiled Men by Guy Jacobs. 2007 New York Book Festival, 2007 Hollywood Book Festival AwardsMajor influences: Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, John Fante, Philip Roth, Richard Russo, Jerzi Kosinski, Michael Chabon

My Interests

Fiction, Books, World Travel, Interesting people

I'd like to meet:

Powerful, inspiring and heartfelt. Hard-Boiled Men is The Catcher in the Rye all grown up; there is a little bit of Ben Wise in every one of us.Dr. Paul S. Lieber, Emerson College.See Guy Jacobs on CNBC:

Music:

Tom Waits, leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan

Movies:

Fight Club, Trainspotting, Woody Allen, City of Gods

Television:

Nothing to see

Books:

Ham on Rye, Sexus, Catcher in the Rye, Big Sur, Post Office, Women, Painted Bird, Straight Man, Book of Illusions, Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, 'Wait Until Spring, Bandini', Ask the Dust

Heroes:

No heroes but I would not mind having a beer with Tom Waits, Henry Miller, Leonard Cohen, Hank Bukowski (althought that would be more expensive).....

My Blog

Evil Female Boss Part 1

When I opened the newspaper on Tuesday, I turned to page A13. There was no particular reason for the selection of that page. I never considered the number 13 to be either lucky or unlucky. I never got...
Posted by Guy Jacobs on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:15:00 PST

What About Books?

Question: Who is your favorite author?   Answer: Hold on, don't answer just yet; think about it for a moment. According to a recent survey, more than 89 million Americans DID NOT read a book i...
Posted by Guy Jacobs on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:11:00 PST

33% of Female Orgasm

To Learn More About Men and WomenJohn May woke up early that morning for no apparent reason.  He brewed up a pot of coffee on that old Mr. Coffee machine that he held on to ever since his graduate sch...
Posted by Guy Jacobs on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:22:00 PST

What She Knows, She Knows

www.hardboiledmen.com It was not such a big surprise to hear her complain so bluntly about how she thought that New York City was totally overrated and that she did not see what the big deal was all a...
Posted by Guy Jacobs on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:49:00 PST

Life is Life (MJ TALES)

It has been more than four months since I last smoked a joint. Four months but who is counting? I am.Marijuana is not addictive, at least, physically it is not.But life, life always gets in the way of...
Posted by Guy Jacobs on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:46:00 PST

Hollywood By Charles Bukowski

I am not quit sure why it took me so long to pick up Hollywood by Charles Bukowski. The book was just sitting around the shelf for years. Like most others, I read Ham on Rye, Women and Post Office on ...
Posted by Guy Jacobs on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:18:00 PST

Calling Ms. Jamaica Part1

For More From Guy JacobsI looked at my watch. It was 5:16pm. There was no need to rush. There were still ten minutes or so until the train was scheduled to arrive. I walked up the station's platform c...
Posted by Guy Jacobs on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:30:00 PST

Those Blond Girls

For more go to: www.hardboiledmen.comAfter seminar, I headed over to Human Resources. Those fuckers called me down to their office for the God knows how many time. Apparently, I once again failed to p...
Posted by Guy Jacobs on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:05:00 PST

The Henry Miller Library

By Guy Jacobswww.hardboiledmen.comSome things in life never made sense to anyone. For example:Who would ever believe that Clara would be the kind of a woman who would spend her Sunday afternoons hangi...
Posted by Guy Jacobs on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:09:00 PST

Free Cheddar Nation

The thing I hate most about supermarkets are those free sample displays that are scattered all over those random corners of the store. They usually throw the samples into plastic containers where tin...
Posted by Guy Jacobs on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:50:00 PST