Feces Navidad: Pile After Pile of 1988 Holiday Magic

by Matthew Tolzmann

Overview

All the wonders, loves, and laughs of a Generation X-er's greatest X-mas...
Feces Navidad has everything you've never asked for in a holiday classic: The origin story of the "Die Hard of Christmas carols," the role Pee-wee Herman played in a Christmastime rite of passage into adulthood, a Texas State Trooper who was packing a lot more than his sidearm, a Five-step Program for a Band Dork's Path to Self-actualization, the secret love for a musical instrument that has to be hugged to be played, and the reason why the word feces is in the title. These stories are all based on real events, but be warned: not only does the author think that Gremlins is "the most interesting Christmas movie" he's ever seen, but he also, at one point, thought it was the best "Muppet movie."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798317694722
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	09/15/2025
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d)

About the Author

Matthew Tolzmann grew up in the North Dallas suburb of Plano, Texas, which is the setting of Feces Navidad. As a memoirist, he represents an unusual character type: the really-should-have-been-an-outcast-who-wasn't-one. In a town where style and status were everything, Tolzmann was proud to wear clothes made by his mom and was equally as proud of a long list of rebellious fashion atrocities. Feeling "normal" made him uncomfortable, so he went to great lengths to avoid "fitting in," and yet, somehow, he was not an outcast. In fact, he was possibly the first ever counterculture, anti-fashion, anti-conformity, anti-football, "king of high school band dorks" to be elected "king of homecoming" in the entire state of Texas, possibly the United States.

Tolzmann is a musician by training, a photographer by trade, and an author by accident.