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Wasted time. All the wasted time we spent as children looking for that ridiculous, bespectacled, striped goon when we could have been seeking out the world's most enigmatic racing driver.
http://www.forgottenbookmarks.com/
Much like FOUND Magazine, a new site run by someone who works at a used and rare bookstore, is dedicated to sharing notes and musings left in books. Hope they don't find my middle school hitlist. I left it in a copy of “The Babysitter's Club” a few years ago…
Put these two book shelf units together, and you've got yourself a giant, functional open book! It's so pretty that we're just going to ignore the fact that it's called a “Pagina.”
Tech Buzz Apple, take notice. Brooklyn novelist Peter Brett has found another brilliant usage of the magical iPhone. While riding the F train, at about 400 words each way, he typed out a novel. How he still has his thumbs (and eyesight), I'll never know.
Poor dude's just sitting on the porch, reading his book, when his hilarious girlfriend slaps him with her bloody tampon. Ha-ha! But she was just joking! Honey? Well, suffice to say honey's not laughing.
“A hip pocket guide to Western mushrooms.” Does the “and more” have something to do with the trumpet?
Tech Buzz The first of what can only be many Twitter books is upon us. James Bridle self-published two years' worth of his Tweets in a lovely, antique-fail-whale adorned hardcover book. I guess this is 2009's answer to publishing an author's journals and old letters. We can at least say it is; it sounds classier.
Culture Buzz Well, they did it. Coming soon to a Borders near you…This Is Why You're Fat the book. The creators of the Tumblr blog finally got their six-figure book deal, in another blog-to-riches success story.
Culture Buzz These are the ten books that people are most likely to lie about having read, according to a survey by a pro-reading advocacy group in the UK. I have read 1, 3, and 5 on this list, and I lie about having read 10, because we had it in our bathroom for, like, a year, which is almost like my having read it.
Celebrity Buzz The actor, last seen in Milk, will pen a book of short stories for an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Currently enrolled at both NYU and Columbia, this comes as good news for Franco, who will now be considered The Hottest Writer Ever (besides Erma Bombeck, of course - JK! MISS YOU ERMS!)
Culture Buzz A waitress's tell-all book on the dirty dining secrets of the stars. We're talking insider code-names like Twat Waffle (apparently Michael Stipe) who wears “matching fedoras and Ray-Bans” with his boy crew, leaves no tip and just wants some f'n blueberry waffles. It all sounds delicious and should be a best seller in no time.
A quirky six-year old narrates a book of kittens…with hilarious results. This is the kind of narration my life needs.
Culture Buzz So there's this company that lets you enter you and your significant other's names online, and it then prints out a full erotic book about the two of you! For instance, my free excerpt about the first couple read, “Michelle decided that she did have time for some more playtime with Barack after all.” Go have a ball.
Graduate student Laura Cahill, uses books from secondhand stores, found that old books are very difficult to recycle because of the glue used in the binding process, so she uses the books to create waterproof vases
Science Buzz A new children's book asks the questions all kids want to know. The book's plot summary reads, “Two yetis trek through the Arctic in an attempt to answer the burning question, 'Do Narwhals Have Blowholes?' Will they find the answer or will they be eaten by polar bears?” …Introducing my imaginary nephew for whom I need to buy this book.
Using old books, an artist armed with only a razor blade created pop-up paper models, and set them in sexy poses, like this one! You can check out all 44 photos below, or visit his show at at the Foley Gallery in NYC.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/25/bad-sex-award...
The Guardian lists its annual winners for this year's worst sex scenes in literature. They even gave respected author John Updike a lifetime achievement award for writing such scrumptious prose including: “She had gagged, and moved him outside her lips, rubbing his spurting glans across her cheeks and chin…Her face gleamed with his jism in the spotty light of the motel room, there on the far end of East Beach, within sound of the sea.”
A gallery of paintings that use books as a canvas. Now you can feel cultured without having to worry about being made to read anything.
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