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Offerman, Nick, 1970-

Paddle your own canoe : one man's fundamentals for delicious living / Nick Offerman. - First Dutton paperback printing. - New York : Dutton, 2016. - xii, 337 pages ; 21 cm

Not-so-little house on the prairie: eat red meat -- Hail Mary, full of beans: horse sense> the Bible -- Der Ubermann/Offermensch: how to be a man -- Football troubador: don't be an asshole -- Walking beans: work hard, work dirty -- Carnalisthenics: Leviticus can blow me -- Enter Dionysus: don't walk alone -- Doing time: be smart while getting stupid -- Born again again: the moustache makes the magick -- Wax on, wax off: make a goddamn gift -- Kabuki farmboy takes Chicago: carry a handkerchief -- Subaru leavings: discern your ass from a hole in the ground -- Resurrection: measure twice, cut once -- Romantic love: love your woman (a paean to Megan) -- Finding Swanson: let your freak flag fly -- Nowadays: go outside.

The actor known for roles in such productions as Parks and Recreation shares whimsical musings on a range of topics from love and manliness to grooming and eating meat, offering additional discussions of his life before fame and his courtship of his wife, Megan Mullally.

ISBN: 9780525954217 052595421X

Standard No.: 40022925525

LCCN: 2013023379

Subjects--Personal Names:
Offerman, Nick, 1970-
Offerman, Nick, 1970-

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Actors--United States--Biography.
Carpenters--United States--Biography.
Conduct of life.
Actors and actresses.
Conduct of life.
Actors.
Carpenters.
Conduct of life.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States.

Subjects--Index Terms: Biography University of Illinois Alumni Memoir

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
American wit and humor.
Biography.

Dewey Class. No.: 791.4502/8092 B