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Can't Win, Can't Lose, Can't Quit

Zany true stories in life and business

by Cliff Livingstone

What can you say about a guy who has sold fl owers
from coast to coast in bars, has developed antivirus
and word processing soft ware, tells stories of
meeting some of the biggest names in music, politics
and business, yet lived on “cornflake sandwiches”
while writing this amazing series of books?
He’s turned down the McDonald’s franchise for
Canada—twice, and once had the Athabaska oil
sands leases in his possession. Owner of a multimillion
dollar website, yet he can’t turn any of this
into a fortune, big or small. He has turned these and
dozens of other amazing stories into this book for
your reading enjoyment.
Book 1 describes how his family should have
owned Vancouver, adventures in the stereo equipment
biz, the “slice and dice” theory of business and
others too funny to believe.
Th e author is one of two identical twins whose
zany, eccentric lives make for a galloping romp
through Canadian history. They both live in Ottawa.

ISBN: 978-0-88970-124-3 $16.95

Listen carefully to everything he says, then ignore it
completely

by Cliff Livingstone

Book 2 in the “Cliff R” mini-series has a lifetime of
funny stories about chasing the brass ring in business,
from music to soft ware to fl owers to websites.
Stories about John Lennon, Rochdale, selling fl owers
in a biker bar, being faster than the Snowbirds,
NABU, and selling speakers to the future hearing
impaired. You get to meet more interesting characters
from the CliffR reality such as Coupon John
and Ottawa’s Max Keeping.
Seventy stories of adventures in Canadian business.
Or one long adventure in “close but missed”
opportunities, brushes with fame and fortune,
humourously described in short, true, autobiographical
stories.


“You can open this book anywhere and enjoy
reading Cliff’s funny stories.”
“Business humour with metaphysical whimsy.”.

Quality paperback, 2008, 5½ x 8½, 208pp, ISBN 978-0-88970-124-3 $16.95

The Karmic Car Cycles

the road to collaborative governance

by Cliff Livingstone

Book 4 chronicles a myriad of wacky and head
shaking “bin there, did it, wished I hadn’t” type
Karmic “Innie” and “Outie” misadventures involving
machines of the automobile persuasion. See if you
relate to these hapless perhaps stories of Karma, cars
and cops. No cops and few vehicles were injured in
the making of this book.
The Karmic Car Cycles is an unbelievable real-life
romp of hilarious car misadventures. Having led one
of the wackiest, most unusual, and unlikely lives on
the planet, the author tumbles through these Karmic
Car adventures at the rate of about ten laughsa minute.
Mr. Livingstone proposes that his car misadventures
all occurred because he had a Karmic Car Cycle
going on. He then builds his case though a series of
uproariously funny “vignettes” that work in their
own right over and above the narrative. The Karmic
Car Cycles offers universal appeal to anyone who has owned, loved or hated a car.

Quality paperback 2009, 5½ x 8½, 192pp, ISBN 978-0-88970-129-8 $16.95

“Boy, can this guy write… makes me want to put my quill back in the goose!” – a reader
“Never a dull moment in these autobiographic,
woulda, shoulda, coulda stories!”
is an unbelievable real-life romp of hilarious car misadventures. Having led one
of the wackiest, most unusual, and unlikely lives on
the planet, the author tumbles through these Karmic
Car adventures at the rate of about ten laughs
Mr. Livingstone.