Posts Tagged ‘Humor’

📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents I Am Not Brad Pitt and Other Stories Virtual Book Publicity Tour #LiteraryFiction #Satire #Humor

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ross Dreiblatt’s I AM NOT BRAD PITT AND OTHER STORIES Virtual Book Tour February 1 – 25. Inside the Book Title: I AM NOT BRAD PITT AND OTHER STORIES Author: Ross Dreiblatt Publisher: Stone Tiger Books Pages: 391 Genre: Literary Fiction/Humor/Satire BOOK BLURB: I AM NOT BRAD PITT is the first of three riotously absurd tales in Ross Dreiblatt’s debut short-story collection sending up America’s sometimes-fatal celebrity obsessions. “I Am Not Brad Pitt” opens in a prison cell in which Mr. Pitt’s clone-like doppelganger, Tobey Crawford, remorsefully recounts the sequence of unlikely events that resulted in his wrongful conviction for murder. The
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents How Not to Succeed in Hollywood Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Marissa Thomas’ HOW NOT TO SUCCEED IN HOLLYWOOD Virtual Book Tour December 4 – 29! Inside the Book Title: HOW NOT TO SUCCEED IN HOLLYWOOD Author: Marissa Thompson Publisher: Harlequin Pages: 436 Genre: Humor/Fiction BOOK BLURB: In HOW NOT TO SUCCEED IN HOLLYWOOD, Marissa Thomas offers readers an inside view of one young woman’s journey to fulfill her dream of becoming an actor. The personal and humorous story of Lisa reveals the often difficult and inspiring process of navigating the entertainment industry. The acting bug bit Lisa during her first elementary school talent show. After receiving positive reviews for her
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Are You There Krishna? Virtual Book Trailer Reveal

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Rachel Khona’s ARE YOU THERE KRISHNA? IT’S ME, RESHMA. OR RACHEL. OR WHATEVER.: ESSAYS ON TALKING TO GHOSTS, ACCOSTING CELEBRITIES, GETTING HIGH, SEXISM, RACE AND FIRST-GENERATION WOES Book Trailer Reveal April 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: ARE YOU THERE KRISHNA? IT’S ME, RESHMA. OR RACHEL. OR WHATEVER.: ESSAYS ON TALKING TO GHOSTS, ACCOSTING CELEBRITIES, GETTING HIGH, SEXISM, RACE AND FIRST-GENERATION WOES Author: Rachel Khona Publisher: Thought Catalog Pages: 257 Genre: Humor/Memoir Rachel knew even as a young child that she wasn’t like the rest of her Indian family. While her parents were plotting how she could make it
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Paradise Series Book Blast!

We invite you to Deborah Brown’s PARADISE SERIES Book Blast on December 15! Leave a comment on each of her tour stops to let her know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: Paradise Series Author: Deborah Brown Publisher: Paradise Books Pages: 628 (total in series) Genre: Mystery/Humor Crazy in Paradise: Dying in the middle of the summer in the Florida Keys is sweaty business. Welcome to Tarpon Cove. Madison Westin has inherited her aunt’s beachfront motel in the Florida Keys. Trouble is she’s also inherited a slew of colorful tenant’s – drunks, ex-cons, and fugitives. Only one problem: First, she has to wrestle control from a conniving lawyer
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Pump Up Your Book Presents On Top of the World (Until the Bell Chimes) Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David Lamb’s ON TOP OF THE WORLD (UNTIL THE BELL CHIMES) virtual book tour October 3- December 16! Inside the Book Title: ON TOP OF THE WORLD (UNTIL THE BELL CHIMES) Author: David Lamb Publisher: Woolly Mammoth Books Pages: 240 Genre: Contemporary Romance Fiction/Multicultural/Humor/Satire 2016 BEST FICTION-Pacific Book Awards. FROM THE FUNNY AND NATURALLY BRILLIANT DAVID LAMB, award-winning playwright of the New York Times celebrated play, Platanos Y Collard Greens, comes a modern spin on Dickens’ classic tale that perfectly combines humor and romance in a story re-imagined for our digital, consumerist age.  This version of Scrooge and Belle is familiar, yet unlike
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Wanna-be’s Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mark Connelly’s WANNA-BE’S virtual book tour October 3- December 16! Inside the Book Title: WANNA-BE’S Author: Mark Connelly Publisher: Mark Connelly Productions Pages: 188 Genre: Literary Fiction/Humor/Satire With his new girlfriend – a soccer mom with a taste for bondage – urging him to “go condo,” failed screenwriter Winfield Payton needs cash. Accepting a job offer from a college friend, he becomes the lone white employee of a black S&L. As the firm’s token white, he poses as a Mafioso to intimidate skittish investors and woos a wealthy cougar to keep the firm afloat. Figure-skating between the worlds of white
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Fairly Safe Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Deborah Ann Davis” FAIRLY SAFE virtual book tour August 1 – October 28! Inside the Book Title: FAIRLY SAFE Author: Deborah Ann Davis Publisher: D&D Universe Pages: 356 Genre: Young Adult When Mistaken Identity collides with Secret Identity, who wins? JACOB HAS COME A LONG WAY FOR AN ORPHANED FOSTER KID. He has a mentor, a great job, and has finally fallen in love. Granted, she mistook him for a stalker when they met, but every relationship has its little problems. Unfortunately, for the past few years, as the object of his affection pops in and out of his life, she has refused
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  • June 25, 2016
  • Authors on Tour
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Cocktails & Mock-Tales Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Julianne McLean & Mark Lynch’s COCKTAILS & MOCK-TALES virtual book tour June 6 – August 31! Inside the Book Title: Cocktales & Mock-Tales Authors: Julianne McLean & Mark Lynch Publisher: ASJ Publishing Pages: 90 Genre: Humor Cocktails and Mock- Tales is not just about alcoholic beverages. The book is about sensations that tickle your tastebuds and humour that tickles your fancy. It includes non-alcoholic beverages that the whole family can enjoy and even herbal recipes for the adventurous. Have one extremely tall high ball glass and a giant cocktail shaker at the ready Ingredients: Unlimited centilitres of wit and humour
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{Humor} Cocktails and Mock-Tales Blog Tour Sign Up

Julianne McLean and Mark Lynch will be touring July 5 – August 31 with their humor book, COCKTAILS & MOCK-TALES. We are looking for reviews (PDF), interviews, guest posts and book spotlight/promos. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: Cocktales and Mock-Tales Authors: Julianne McLean & Mark Lynch Publisher: ASJ Publishing Pages: 90 Genre: Humor “ Cocktails and Mock- Tales” is not just about alcoholic beverages. The book is about sensations that tickle your tastebuds and humour that tickles your fancy. It includes non-alcoholic beverages that the whole family can enjoy and even herbal recipes for the adventurous. Have one extremely tall high ball glass and a giant cocktail shaker
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Going Both Ways Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Phil Fragasso’s GOING BOTH WAYS virtual book tour April 4 – 29! Inside the Book Title: GOING BOTH WAYS Author: Phil Fragasso Publisher: Wild Rose Press Pages: 276 Genre: Paranormal Romance/Satire/Humor/Mainstream Fiction After a prolonged rant about how easy women have it, Patrick awakens as a woman (Trish). But rather than staying a woman, he’s male one day and female the next. The male and female characters share a single mindset – so Patrick is always in Trish’s head and vice versa. As much as Patrick tries to keep his situation private, he eventually becomes a worldwide sensation sought after
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{Paranormal Romance} Going Both Ways Blog Tour Sign Up

Phil Fragasso will be touring April 4-29 with his paranormal romance/satire/humor/mainstream fiction, GOING BOTH WAYS. We are looking for reviews (paperback U.S./PDF ), interviews, and guest posts. Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: GOING BOTH WAYS Author: Phil Fragasso Publisher: Wild Rose Press Pages: 276 Genre: Paranormal Romance/Satire/Humor/Mainstream Fiction After a prolonged rant about how easy women have it, Patrick awakens as a woman (Trish). But rather than staying a woman, he’s male one day and female the next. The male and female characters share a single mindset – so Patrick is always in Trish’s head and vice versa. As much as Patrick tries to keep his situation private,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Oh Ship! Tales of a Cruising Chick and Other Travel Adventures Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lori A. Moore’s OH SHIP! TALES OF A CRUISING CHICK AND OTHER TRAVEL ADVENTURES virtual book tour January 4-29! Inside the Book Title:  OH SHIP! TALES OF A CRUISING CHICK AND OTHER TRAVEL ADVENTURES Author: Lori Moore Publisher: Tate Publishing Pages: 134 Genre: Travel/Humor Reading Lori A. Moore’s true tales of things that happen on the high seas will have you saying, “Oh Ship!” From stories of passengers pepper-spraying other passengers to grown men fighting over glass figurines of penguins, you’ll laugh until your ribs hurt. For More Information Oh Ship! Tales of a Cruising Chick and Other Travel Adventures
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  • December 30, 2015
  • Authors on Tour, Featured
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Caskets From Costco Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kelly Wilson’s CASKETS FROM COSTCO virtual book tour January 4-29! Inside the Book Title: CASKETS FROM COSTCO Author: Kelly Wilson Publisher: Gravity Pages: 182 Genre: Memoir/Humor For twenty years, I thought that I had been marching through the stages of grief in a straight line. I had been following the formula, crossing each processed grief experience off my list. Except that I was totally deluded. And I didn’t discover that until Jim, my beloved father-in-law, died. I found myself drying off from my shower the morning after his death, really hoping he couldn’t see me naked. Or, if he could,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Admit to Mayhem Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you D.J. Anderson’s ADMIT TO MAYHEM virtual book tour February 2 – March 27! Title: Admit to Mayhem Author: D.J. Adamson Publisher: Horatio Press Pages: 286 Genre: Mystery/Amateur Sleuth Format: Paperback/Kindle With a contrary attitude and an addiction for independence, Lillian Dove admits she has not been a success in life. In fact, she considers failing as one of her addictions. Yet, when she comes across a suspicious house fire with a history of arson and murder, she instinctively attempts to help someone trapped. Lillian becomes the only possible eyewitness to criminal arson, and her life begins to spiral out of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Cracked: A Magic iPhone Story Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Janine A. Southard’s CRACKED: A MAGIC IPHONE STORY virtual book tour February 2 – 27! Title: Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story Author: Janine A. Southard Publisher: Cantina Publishing Pages: 265 Genre: Contemporary Lit/Humor Format: Paperback/Kindle What can your phone do for you? This is the story of a girl and her iPhone. No, that’s not quite right. This is the story of a middle-aged statistician and her best friend. Though she didn’t consider herself middle-aged. And the best friend was more of a roommate-with-whom-she’d-developed-a-friendship. And this description completely ignores the 6,000-year-old elf with whom the woman and her best friend
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{Contemporary Lit/Humor} Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story Blog Tour Sign Up

Janine A. Southard will be touring February 2 – 27 with her contemporary lit/humor, CRACKED! A MAGIC IPHONE STORY! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback – 4 or 5 available & unlimited ebook) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story Author: Janine A. Southard Publisher: Cantina Publishing Pages: 265 Genre: Contemporary Lit/Humor What can your phone do for you? This is the story of a girl and her iPhone. No, that’s not quite right. This is the story of a middle-aged statistician and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Double Blind Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tiffany Pitts‘ Double Blind virtual book tour August 4-29! Title: Double Blind Author: Tiffany Pitts Publisher: Booktrope Editions Pages: 280 Genre: Action/Adventure/Humor/Sci-fi Format: Paperback/Kindle Delilah Pelham’s brother, Paul, is missing. She should probably be worried about that but honestly, he’s been in trouble since the day he learned the words “trust me.” In fact, if it weren’t for his roommate, Carl, she would gladly leave him to his fate. Carl is a good guy, even if he’s a bit of a dork. Okay, a large slice of a dork. Possibly the entire cake. But he wants to help, as do
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{Action/Adventure/Humor/Sci-Fi} Double Blind Blog Tour Sign Up

Tiffany Pitts will be touring August 4-29 with her action/adventure/humor/sci-fi novel, Double Blind! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback or ebook) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   Delilah Pelham’s brother, Paul, is missing. She should probably be worried about that but honestly, he’s been in trouble since the day he learned the words “trust me.” In fact, if it weren’t for his roommate, Carl, she would gladly leave him to his fate. Carl is a good guy, even if he’s a bit of a dork. Okay,
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First Chapter: Hair of the Corn Dog by A.K. Turner

Title: Hair of the Corn Dog Genre: Humor Author: A.K. Turner Publisher: Fever Streak Press Pages: 220 Format: Hardcover/Kindle Purchase at AMAZON In the latest laugh-out-loud confessional from A.K. Turner’s “Tales of Imperfection” series, the author of This Little Piggy Went to the Liquor Store and Mommy Had a Little Flask relates her adventures on the Jersey Shore, at an Idaho drag show with her in-laws, and surviving the perils of an elementary school ice-cream social with equal parts wit and heart. The laughter pairs well with two parts cocktail. Chapter 1 Humpin’ Hannah’s Humpin’ Hannah’s seems determined to communicate via its name that it welcomes all manner of
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First Chapter: The Eight Fingered Fiend of Lake Porker by Fletcher Best

Title: The Eight Fingered Fiend of Lake Porker Genre: Humor/Satire Author:  Fletcher Best Publisher: Fletcher Best Pages: 202 Language: English Format: Paperback Purchase at AMAZON Dark secrets lie just below the surface of the small town of Lake Porker, Texas. The long-time, yet much-despised mayor has been keeping his job by means of rigging elections with the help of the town clerk, a highly respected woman who secretly happens to be the mayor’s dominatrix lover. The man that most of the town thinks is a successful stock day trader is actually a methamphetamine kingpin. His drop-dead beautiful and supposedly devoted God-fearing wife is not only plotting to kill him
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  • February 21, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Eight Fingered Fiend of Lake Porker

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Fletcher Best’s The Eight Fingered Fiend of Lake Porker virtual book tour March 3 – 28! ABOUT THE EIGHT FINGERED FIEND OF LAKE PORKER   Title: The Eight Fingered Fiend of Lake Porker Genre: Humor/Satire Author:  Fletcher Best Publisher: Fletcher Best Pages: 202 Language: English Format: Paperback Dark secrets lie just below the surface of the small town of Lake Porker, Texas. The long-time, yet much-despised mayor has been keeping his job by means of rigging elections with the help of the town clerk, a highly respected woman who secretly happens to be the mayor’s dominatrix lover. The man that
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{Humor/Satire} The Eight Fingered Fiend of Lake Porter Blog Tour Sign Up

Fletcher Best will be on tour March 3 – 28 with his humor/satire, The Eight Fingered Fiend of Lake Porter. We are looking for reviews (paperback & ebook), interviews, guest posts, first chapter reveals and book spotlights. Deadline to sign up is February 15. Please sign up on the form below if you are interested in hosting him and thank you! Dark secrets lie just below the surface of the small town of Lake Porker, Texas. The long-time, yet much-despised mayor has been keeping his job by means of rigging elections with the help of the town clerk, a highly respected woman who secretly happens to be the mayor’s
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  • February 25, 2013
  • Book Blasts, What's New?
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Lowell Christensen’s The One-Minute Zillionaire Book Blast – Win $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash!

Join Lowell Christensen, author of the humor book, The One-Minute Zillionaire: Achieve Wealth, Fame, and Success in an Instant, Give or Take Hundred Years, as he tours the blogosphere April 1 on his first Book Blast with Pump Up Your Book! Lowell will be giving away a $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash to one lucky reader! To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form on the participating blogs below on April 1 and good luck! ABOUT THE ONE-MINUTE ZILLIONAIRE Like any good success book, The One-Minute Zillionaire will get you so crazed with principles, keys, goals, affirmations, and profound and poetic platitudes that you’ll want to dash to Alaska to search
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Davis Aujourd’hui

Davis Aujourd’hui is the author of the Sister Mary Olga Fortitude series of hilarious satires. The first book is entitled The Misadventures of Sister Mary Olga Fortitude. It was followed by Babes in Bucksnort. Davis possesses a rich life experience that has enabled him to draw from it in order to create a colorful canvas upon which to paint very human lives. He is a retired social worker, having worked for Adult Protective Services in New York State for nearly twenty years. He developed the characters within his series of books in order to entertain a colleague by using the gift of humor. As will be the case with
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Humor Author Noah Baird

Noah Baird wanted to attend the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, but his grades weren’t good enough (who knew?).  However, his grades were good enough to fly for the U.S. Navy (again, who knew?), where he spent 14 years until the government figured out surfers don’t make the best military aviators. He has also tried to be a stand-up comedian in Hawaii for Japanese tourists where the language barrier really screwed up some great jokes. On the bright side, a sailboat was named after the punchline of one of his jokes. He has several political satire pieces published on The Spoof under the pen name orioncrew. 
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The Nine Lives of Christmas Virtual Book Publicity Tour November 2011

Join Sheila Roberts, author of the women’s fiction novel, The Nine Lives of Christmas (St. Martin’s Press), as she virtually tours the blogosphere November 1 – 23 2011 on her fifth virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Sheila Roberts Writing since 1989, Sheila Roberts has had 26 books published, both fiction and nonfiction, under different names. Her books have been chosen for book clubs, Readers Digest Condensed books, and her popular novel ON STRIKE FOR CHRISTMAS was made into a movie and appeared on the Lifetime Movie Network. Her novel ANGEL LANE was named one of Amazon’s Top Ten Romances for 2009. However, before she settled
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Donations to Clarity Virtual Book Publicity Tour November/December 2011

Join Noah Baird, author of the humor book, Donations to Clarity (South Wind Publishing), as he virtually tours the blogosphere November 1 – December 16 2011 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Noah Baird Noah Baird wanted to attend the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, but his grades weren’t good enough (who knew?).  However, his grades were good enough to fly for the U.S. Navy (again, who knew?), where he spent 14 years until the government figured out surfers don’t make the best military aviators. He has also tried to be a stand-up comedian in Hawaii for Japanese tourists where
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Babes in Bucksnort Virtual Book Publicity Tour November 2011

Join Davis Aujduvd’hui, author of the humor/satire book, Babes in Bucksnort (Outskirts Press), as he virtually tours the blogosphere November 1 – 23 2011 on his second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Davis Aujourd’hui Davis Aujourd’hui is the author of the Sister Mary Olga Fortitude series of hilarious satires. The first book is entitled The Misadventures of Sister Mary Olga Fortitude. It was followed by Babes in Bucksnort. Davis possesses a rich life experience that has enabled him to draw from it in order to create a colorful canvas upon which to paint very human lives. He is a retired social worker, having worked for
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New Book for Review: Humor ‘The Chronicles of Zee & Zoey: A Journey of Extraordinary Ordinary’ by Deborah Barnes

Deborah Barnes will be touring November 14 – December 16 2011 with her humor book, The Chronicles of Zee & Zoey: A Journey of Extraordinary Ordinary! Combining a warm, humorous, and conversational style of writing with stunning photos and charming artwork, readers are immediately immersed into the world of Zee, a lovable male Maine Coon cat, and Zoey, a high-spirited female Bengal cat, as they share their amazing relationship and bond that formed between the two of them in The Chronicles of Zee & Zoey. What makes this story so compelling is that the author narrates the journey of the cats through the personal trials and tribulations of her
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New Book for Review: Humor ‘Donations to Clarity’ by Noah Baird

Noah Baird is touring in November & December 2011 with his humor book, Donations to Clarity! The plan was simple: hoax bigfoot, then sell tours to bigfoot enthusiasts. The plan wasn’t brilliant, and neither were Harry, Earl, and Patch. The three chemical-abusing friends only wanted to avoid the 9 to 5 rat race, but their antics attract the attention of a real bigfoot. When the misogynistic Earl is mistaken for a female bigfoot by the nearsighted creature and captured; it is just the beginning of their problems. The U.S. Government has a plan to naturalize the mythical creatures living within the U.S. borders.  The problem is the plan needs
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