True Lies: The Book of Bad Advice

Mima Vulovic is a sessional lecturer at York University who also works
at the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General.

Written by a master raconteur of Toronto’s demimonde, True Lies offers
fresh insights into love, sex, sadomasochism, faith, vegetarianism, and
any number of topics you might have never considered (e.g., unusual
depilation techniques). In lampooning the city’s alternative core
(which, by her own account, often takes itself too seriously), Tamaki
adopts an approach that is caustic and unyielding—and ecumenical: no
one is spared in the diverse communities of divas, dominas,
metastrophists, queers, heterosexuals, psychiatrists, psychics, vegans,
Wiccans, cat lovers, and newborn Christians.

The author’s “bad” advice is, in fact, warm and friendly, though
thick with mischief. For example, if you are a temp, she’ll teach you
how to augment your income with valuable office supplies or, better yet,
your sex life with a under-the-desk toys. If you are outraged with the
minuscule sizes of clothes, she’ll entice you to mobilize an army of
angry naked fat revolutionaries, whose goal is to embarrass giants like
The Gap into carrying sizes 16 and up.

Writer/performer Tamaki is an original: detached and sympathetic, sweet
and sour, and, above all, relentlessly hilarious.