More Blog-To-Book Deals! How Wonderful!
News today that popular blog "Look At This Fucking Hipster" has been picked up by St. Martin's Press to be turned into a book reminds me of something very eerie that I received over the weekend. It claimed to be a dispatch from the future, although it was hard to tell, since the entire message was written in a difficult-to-understand language that bore only the slightest resemblance to English ("UR 1 HOPE 4 WERLD, PLZ SHARES lol" etc.) I'm not quite sure what the attachment was, but my best guess is that it is a table of contents from an updated version of Harold Bloom's The Western Canon. (It had a 2034 copyright date, if that's any indication.) The attachment somehow self-destructed before I was able to download it, but here's a quick transcription that I was able to make before everything disappeared.
IV THE CHAOTIC AGE
16. Freud: A Shakespearean Reading
17. Proust: The True Persuasion of Sexual Jealousy
18. Joyce's Agon With Shakespeare
19. Woolf's Orlando: Feminism as the Love of Reading
20. Kafka: Canonical Patience and "Indestructibility"
21. Borges, Neruda, and Pessoa: Hispanic-Portuguese Whitman
22. Beckett… Joyce… Proust… Shakespeare
V THE BLOG-TO-BOOK AGE
23. Mande: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fucking Hipster
24. Blakeley: Wrestling With The Ghost Of Delmore Schwartz
25. Shafrir and Grose: Maternal Conflict In A "Send" Button Era
26. Birmingham: Anthropomorphosized Suicidal Ideation and the Lessons of A.A. Milne
27. Cook To Bang: Yes, A Book About Recipes That Will Get You Laid
28. Lander: White People Like Like This
VI CATALOGING THE CANON
29. How Have You Read This Far Now That We're All Subliterate?
A chilling vision of our desolate future or an uplifting affirmation of our species' ability to intellectualize society's reflection of itself through literature no matter what the subject? I'm not quite sure, but I have to go register "Here's A Bunch Of Pictures Of My Dick Dressed As Various Mexican Wrestlers" on Tumblr before someone else takes it and steals my deal.
Viva Los Straitjackets!
I'm going to restart LOLgay as a Tumblr.
Bidding farewell to mystical equine creatures who embody otherness vis-a-vis sexuality
FINALLY. See you at BEA!
I think Balk's Cock Dressed As Notable Historical Courtesans is destined to be an Important Work.
Um, yes.
Isn't this just every other pet trying to get in on the LOLcats thing?
I mean, can we look forward to LOLBirdz?
Will these be available on Kindle?
Nacho Libris it is, then.
Dante's "En Fuego!!"