Book Synopsis
Notes From Flake Harbor: Paintings & Matchbook Reflections
by Tony Arnold
Step into the smoky back room of a men's tobacco shop that may or may not exist outside the author's own mythology, where retired lawmen swap war stories, a Pygmy-dialect-speaking philosopher named Jerry hunts for hog wash, and a missing wooden Indian carving becomes evidence of interdimensional conspiracy. The thirtieth installment of the notorious "Whisanant Mythos," this collection strips away the padding and hands you the raw material straight off the cocktail napkins and matchbook covers where it was born — unpolished, unruly, and interlaced with the author's own abstract road-trip paintings.
Equal parts fishing story, backwoods philosophy, and unapologetic barstool rant, Notes From Flake Harbor is a fever dream of Florida's back roads and Tiki-soaked coastline, narrated by a self-described anti-authoritarian with a churchwarden pipe and an opinion on everything from UFO abductions to the death of proper tobacco stores. It's messy. It's politically incorrect. It doesn't apologize for either.
If you've ever wanted to eavesdrop on the strangest, funniest, most cantankerous table at the smoke shop — pull up a chair.
About The Author
Tony Arnold is the cryptonym under which internationally recognized science/travel writer and Tiki Misanthropologist Dr. Crabbe Rangoon publishes his creative fiction. Serving on renowned explorer Horst von Hesselbrut's last expedition, his subsequent endeavors included procurement journeys into Asia, the South Pacific and The Dark Continent. Distinguished as the Praetor Imprimitor of the Ordinis Orientalium Nasi Templum, he serves as the Intergalactic Attache for the Temple of Scientonomy. He is formally attached to the Ruling Council of The Spear of the Just and is Chancellor of the Ministry of Truth. He holds the Regent Chair of the Knights of the Eightfold Clover, and is an internet influencer. He's a Lifetime Honorary Member of the Slack Key Recessionists, and is also a member of the Friends of the Library. Dr. Rangoon resides in a stilt home above the waters near Candor-on-Asperger, where he writes and edits for the White Devil Press, frequents Chinese restaurants, and collects Oceanic artifacts, tobacco pipes, and exotic books.