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COFFEEHOUSE CULTURE -- Issue 2

My what a man of many skills. Not only is Laurence Cherniak creator of the Great Books a masterful writer, photographer and a professional dope smoker extraordinaire but also an actor, star of screen and community theatre stages, a musician, a scriptwriter, an artist, a poet, a designer, a computer buff, an unrestrained self-publicist, a registered solutions consultant with Apple Computers but also, he lets slip in one of the books, a trained ballet dancer. In our experience, however, he does not dance any pas de deux. Although in the biographies of the author that appear in the first two volumes of the Great Books the facts are few, he really is one of the world’s great myth makers. Unfortunately, the third of his books adds no further detail (but lots of pictures) to the story of the man behind the myths. No doubt he is saving it all up for the autobiography that will probably constitute all three books of Volume III. What can one say about this man of mystery? When it comes down to talking about his loud taste in knitwear it is only Coffeehouse Culture’s auntie Edith (author of ‘Knit Yourself a New Life’) who gets excited. Probably a hyper-active child, judging by his web site Mr Cherniak is a creative whirlwind who is cashing in on his talent. Selling postcards of his paintings and paintings of his postcards as well as a range of cannabis related products, Laurence Cherniak has recently produced a set of cannabis playing cards and a CD-Rom of his inimitable pictures of grass leaves. A Canadian by birth, Mr Cherniak has managed to overcome this disability through his world travels and exotic tastes. He remains a resident of Canada.