From the grouchy, deadpan, comic genius and brilliantly witty author ofOtis Lee Crenshaw: I Blame SocietyandThings Snowballcomes this wonderful new collection of stories of magnificent bastards and lost souls. Meet the man who vacuums bewildered prairie dogs out of their burrows; a smug, carbon-neutral eco-couple; a teenage girl who invites 45,000 MySpace friends to a house party; the author of a business book entitledHighly Successful Secrets to Standing on a Corner Holding Up a Golf Sale Sign;and a man whose attempts to teach softball to a group of indolent advertising executives sparks an international crisis. With his trademark humor, this is guaranteed to delight his loyal fanbase as well as draw in new readers.