The Manwife Chronicles: As Pantless As I Want To Be by David Kaa
Review by: Chris Singer
About the author:
David brings over 746 days of experience in unemployment. There he has been responsible for sorting sock drawers, and making sure his kids don’t go to school with their shirts tucked into their underwear.
Prior to that, he did a bunch of stuff in marketing but, apparently, wasn’t very good at it. Because it always ended with him standing in the driveway, holding a cardboard box with that dead plant he’d been trying to resurrect the past six months.
David then went on to launch an initiative to perfect the afternoon nap, and write about his findings on TheManwifeChronicles.com.
David resides with his wife and two kids in Albuquerque, which looks something like a cross between the face of Mars and a cat’s litter box.
About the book:
Over six years ago I relocated from Boston to Albuquerque, which resembles something between the face of the moon and a cat’s litter box. I went from the intellectual center of the universe to a cleaner version of Mexico. It’s an understatement to say that things are a bit “different” from the Northeast. Actually, A LOT different. Darn close to ass backwards.
After a year of interviewing with every mom and pop laundry map, taco stand and fly by night company, I finally landed a job as Marketing Manager. However, things didn’t work out so well and after three and a half years it all came to an end. Now my worst nightmare has come true – unemployed in the desert without even a tree tall enough to hang myself from. That’s when I discovered the Internets to keep my sanity.
One day, in the course of a Twitter conversation, I posed a stupid question. Not surprisingly, I get a stupid answer, and it was funny. So every day I’d post a random question. Every day I would think up some stupid question, and repost some of the best answers. Questions ranged from “Uses for a throw blanket,” to “Things not to say in an interview,” and anything my unemployed mind could think up in between.
This is a collection of those posts… that I have made funnier. As well as given you the correct answers.
My take on the book:
I stayed up later than I should have last night thinking I would start this book and read a bit before going to sleep. Instead, I finished it all in one sitting while having a few too many laughing fits in the process — resulting in me getting banished to the couch to finish reading.
The author deserves a lot of credit. When you’ve been unemployed for 435 days and counting, it’s got to be hard to keep not just your sense of humor, but also find a way to keep your creative juices flowing as well.
The book is a success
Looking forward to reading this one. I can imagine staying up late reading it too, sounds like fun.