Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

Monday, April 25, 2011

"Decision Points" Re-Categorized As "Humor & Comedy"

Crown Publishers announced in a press release today that the former president G. W. Bush's, Decision Points, had incorrectly been promoted as an autobiography. 
[Crown] acknowledges that there were many egregious errors in the book, such as our mistaken belief that Mr. Bush was the author of the book, or that Mr. Bush could write any book, or that anyone could seriously believe anything that Mr. Bush would say after 8 years of non-stop lies, deceit, and general incompetence. Nor could we seriously entertain the contention that he did, as he claimed, "worked very hard." For all of these errors, Crown Publishers sincerely apologizes to any readers who felt that our company had engaged in deceptive practices.  However, we do believe that it can proudly take its place between The Ultimate Garfield Compendium and Dave Barry's witty take on suburbia, Why Won't My Wife Take It Up The Ass?  

#bush
#shrubya
#decisionpoints
#notintendedasafactualstatement

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Memoiranda: I Fucked John-John, I Fucked A Lot Of Guys Who Used To Be Famous, And Other Rancid Shit Committed To Print

Have you screwed anyone famous? Perhaps several of them? Perhaps that guy wasn't even famous for doing anything except for being the scion of a rich and famous family. So what? Apparently a publisher will pay good money for the story.(As long as it's true, of course.) One can only conclude, therefore, that being buggered by as many famous men as possible pays. And we are talking American dollars, not Canadian.


In addition, always make sure to at least hint that your dreams were frustrated because you were a woman living in the fifties--even if your only dream was to be impregnated by Ernest Hemingway. Because somehow the most oppressive life you could have possibly lead was to be a married woman in 1955 America, even if you lived in Manhattan and never wanted for a meal or a roof over your head.  


Not like my grandmother who worked was a widower who worked in a laundromat until she retired on Social Security.


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/books/come-to-the-edge-christina-haags-memoir-of-john-f-kennedy-jr-review.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/books/anne-roiphes-memoir-art-and-madness-review.html