Wednesday, January 18, 2012

CELEBRITY BOOKS AND WHY THE PERSON WHO GREENLIT THEM GREENLIGHTED THEM*:
  • Josh Radnor, One Big Blissful Thing: Never heard of, wanted to try ayahuasca, then got high enough to accidentally agree to publish this

  • Mike Doughty, The Book of Drugs: Editor loves Soul Coughing; was brutally savaged in book for saying so
  • Rob Lowe, Stories I Only Tell My Friends: Delivery vehicle for interior glossy photos of Rob Lowe
  • Jenny McCarthy, Louder than Words: A Mother’s Journey in Healing Autism: Terrorist plot to start rubella epidemic in Malibu
  • Nicole Polizzi, A Shore Thing: Tapping niche of embarrassing gifts from uncles and aunts who want to seem hip to 12-14 year-old nieces
  • Soleil Moon Frye, Happy Chaos: Looking for dirt on that creepy Henry guy
  • Tina Fey, Bossypants: Boss said had to put out at least one well-written book in 2011
  • Shania Twain, From This Moment On: Thought this was a book of prophecies

*Playing both sides of this conjugation here.

8 comments:

  1. Katie7:07 PM

    I love that Mike Doughty was included in this list.

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  2. I eventually had to stop following him on Twitter because I'd had my fill of feeling like a jackass for ever enjoying Soul Coughing, so that entry was my favorite as well.

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  3. Katie7:43 PM

    Still a Twitter follower and haven't read the book yet since it didn't get shipped to my small town bookstore (perhaps I can explore the exciting world of online ordering),  I've been to tons of his solo shows so I'm very familiar with the "no, I will not play that SC song" said with the very clear undercurrent of "hey asshole, stop requesting 'Super Bon Bon.'"  I did hear that of all the SC songs he has fairly positive feelings about "The Idiot Kings" and "St. Louise is Listening," which are two of my favorites.

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  4. I've unfollowed two celebrities on Twitter--one, despite his presence on two much-beloved shows, because his Twitter degraded almost entirely into political rants, and the other a child actress who tweeted too much.  (Another younger actress I follow is in danger of an unfollow for the second reason as well.)

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  5. isaac_spaceman9:51 PM

    I keep trying to do a post about what I liked and didn't like about his book, but I think I've just about figured out that he is so sensitive to criticism and so apt to Google himself that it's just not worth it.  Though maybe I should point out that the page or two physically (and unflatteringly) describing every woman he ever had sex with would have been my first cut, were I his editor. 

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  6. Heather K10:07 PM

    I think I unfollowed the same actor as you.

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  7. he had an album out last year. Anyone know if it's any good?

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  8. Katie2:40 PM

    It's actually the first album of his I haven't bought, but only b/c I'm getting it through Spotify.  I like it, but it hasn't hooked me like his other ones.  The 1st single, "Na Na Nothing," is pretty darn catchy.  My sister likes the album a lot, and we are both Doughty-philes.

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