I’m pretty certain the Internet will blow up soon, and with that, millions upon million of nonsense-filled webpages and countless gigs of nut-punching videos will be lost forever. Sad, but it’s inevitable.
That’s why I gathered up some of my favorite musings from this website and put them in book form.
They shall be preserved for the future generation of belligerent, ferocious apes who will one day enslave all humans and rule the earth… and learn to read. In that exact order. So, that’s why this book is staring you in the face. It’s for the apes.
“Now, for the first time, Cross is weaving his media mockery, celebrity denunciation, religious commentary and sheer madness into book form, revealing the true story behind his almost existential distaste of Jim Belushi (The Belush), disclosing the up-to-now unpublished minutes to a meeting of Fox television network executives, and offering up a brutally grotesque run-in with Bill O’Reilly.” – Publishers Weekly
“It traces the evolution of the show from its inspiration in the civil rights movement through its many ups and downs – from Nixon’s trying to cut off its funding to the rise of Elmo – via the remarkable personalities who have contributed to it.”
Music nerds and art lovers unite! Enjoy 140 of Ryan’s best color illustrations promoting some of your favorite bands with his signature muted colors and whimsical edge. Steve Albini puts it best, “Jay Ryan takes the germ of an idea and makes it uniquely great. His genius is in knowing what matters and what doesn’t… His genius is in having the image matter.”
Lists! Perfect for the bathroom: 13 particularly horrible fast-food innovations, 24 great films too painful to watch twice, 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined by Saxophone, 11 video games that prompted fear and outrage, and 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture Lists!
Our book “Quality Workday Distraction” is now available on Amazon and I am very excited. I just hi-fived the photos of Noam Chomsky and Matt Rolloff on my wall… anyway… I know some of you have purchased and even skimmed through the book (we all go potty now and then, am I right people?), so would you be so kind to write a small review on my Amazon page:
Hmmmm… what to do on vacation or during a slow work week:
Crack a Book: No argument, this is definitely the best book of the year… that I wrote (you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll spend a measly $12). Need more? The Grouchy Grammarian and The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two make for splendid [...]
Will be posting again tomorrow, still on vacay (read: stuffing my face, scrapbooking, fort building). Until then, buy yourself a book with all that Christmas loot or give the gift of reading for Three Kings Day.
So you got the weird graphic designer guy in the office Pollyanna and you’re not sure what he likes. Don’t fret, here ya go: “The two hottest genres in comics gleefully collide head-on, as the most beloved American superhero gets the coolest Japanese manga makeover ever.”
