Thursday, October 15, 2009
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Apparently there is now a mass inability to remember anything. I have it bad. But yesterday Rex Sorgatz couldn't remember the first blog-to-book thingie that happened, while he was looking at Urlesque's timeline. One of his commenters notes: "The Suck.com book (Suck: Worst-Case Scenarios in Media, Culture, Advertising, and the Internet'), came out in 1997." What a wonderful world.
Lost in History Already: Blog to Book Deals
Apparently there is now a mass inability to remember anything. I have it bad. But yesterday Rex Sorgatz couldn't remember the first blog-to-book thingie that happened, while he was looking at Urlesque's timeline. One of his commenters notes: "The Suck.com book (Suck: Worst-Case Scenarios in Media, Culture, Advertising, and the Internet'), came out in 1997." What a wonderful world.
#suck.com & Heather forever. I have no idea what the hashtag means. Oh, and Natasha's Mad Men book too.
America likes reading crap while crapping. And apparently Harper Collins knows it.
Don't forget doctor's offices.
I'd read the Awl on the john. How do we make this happen?
Does The Onion's book count? (the one that recounted the 20th Century as if the Onion had published -- e.g., August 1969 headline: HOLY SHIT MAN WALKS ON FUCKING MOON).
Impressed by what was left off. Guess that the compiler was still in high school when some of these came out?