Fluffing the Concrete: Making the Most of Foreign Prison-or Anything Else

by Mack Dryden

Overview

"One would think that being thrown into a North African prison in leg-irons might be an exception to the adage that comedians can find the humor in anything. One would be wrong. Fluffing the Concrete is a fascinating, harrowing, and hilarious look behind the impenetrable walls of a foreign prison, and into the mind of one of the funniest humorists and compelling motivational speakers working today."
—Paul Ruffin

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781680033373
Publisher:	Texas Review Press
Publication date:	07/28/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	186
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Before performing stand-up comedy on The Tonight Show and writing on the staff of Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, MACK DRYDEN survived on “goat butt soup” in a Moroccan jail, not knowing if he’d ever be released. He lived not only to tell the tale, but—amazingly—to inspire, instruct, and make us laugh out loud about it as well. Dryden currently lives in California with his wife and children.

Table of Contents

1. Surviving Prison for Dummies / 1
2. Unarmed and Dangerous—Control is the Key / 6
3. So Much Blame to Pass Around, So Little Time / 13
4. Go Where the Dirhams Are / 17
5. Feeling Even Stranger in a Strange Land / 22
6. Screwing Up in Three Languages / 31
7. Borders, Blunders, and Brouhahas / 46
8. Bad Timing for Temporary Insanity / 73
9. From Bad to Cursed / 86
10. Clark Kent Hits the Phone Booth / 95
11. The Big House—Maximum Insecurity / 100
12. Prison 101—Freshman Follies / 108
13. Mattress Man and Monkeys / 114
14. Professional Skinny Dipping and Rednecks with Shotguns / 122
15. Goat Butt Soup and Good News / 150
16. The Revenge of Teddy Bear / 156
17. Glory Land / 164
18. Epilogue / 170
19. Epilogue to the Epilogue / 171

What People are Saying About This

Paul Ruffin

"One would think that being thrown into a North African prison in leg- irons might be an exception to the adage that comedians can find humor in anything. One would be wrong. Fluffing the Concrete is a fascinating, harrowing, and hilarious look behind the impenetrable walls of a foreign prison—and into the mind of one of the funniest humorists and compelling motivational speakers working today."
—Paul Ruffin, author of Here's to Noah, Bless His Ark and Castle in the Gloom

Editorial Reviews

"One would think that being thrown into a North African prison in leg- irons might be an exception to the adage that comedians can find humor in anything. One would be wrong. Fluffing the Concrete is a fascinating, harrowing, and hilarious look behind the impenetrable walls of a foreign prison—and into the mind of one of the funniest humorists and compelling motivational speakers working today."
—Paul Ruffin, author of Here's to Noah, Bless His Ark and Castle in the Gloom

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