Former hillbilly jug band legend "The Total Package" Braiian Ruuska

has released his first collection of short stories, entitled Is You

Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby? Here's what people are saying:

"It's not a trajectory of separation, it's an orbit."

-Dewitt Henry

"Ruuska? I hired him to paint my fence in '96, but he ran away before he

finished. made off with my best paintbrush and some cornbread that was a

cooling on the windowsill. Paint my fence, you carpetbagger!"

-Sven Loob

"You can't buy chewing gum anywhere is Singapore, but you can buy

peppermint candy because you eat it till it's gone. Ah, Singapore."

-Naoko Yamano

"Ruuska writes prose that way it should be written, that is, with

one elbow in a bowl of warm broth and the other resting triumphantly

upon the smoldering carcass of pragmatism."

-John Updike

"When you really need them the most, that's when rock 'n' roll dreams

come true."

-Meatloaf

"If 100 bellybuttons were lined up against a wall, I could

definitely pick out which one is mine."

-Madonna