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more about #penguin more comments → nirreskeya: Remember kids, bedbugs were nearly eradicated 50 years ago, but then Silent Spring came out. Maybe Houghton Mifflin will get an infestation next. more » bikini_lounger: Publishing houses can't possibly have beds for employees, right? I mean, the bed/book combination is an automatic trigger for the body to shut down an... more » City_Dater: Have they found the carrier and forced him or her to fumigate at home? 'Cos otherwise they'll just keep riding back into the office at the bottom of ... more » Spirit Fingers: Ugh. You know it's never a good day for parasitic infestations. These stories just make me think of 9th grade Biology...ringworms, guinea worms, those... more » Social Crimer: So you don't need a bed to have bedbugs? I guess penguins don't sleep in beds, so that makes sense. more » scroll_lock: The good thing about a bedbug problem is it's sure to get employees' minds off the infestation of rats the size of Dachshunds. more » Mike Byhoff: Doesn't it take way more than a weekend to get rid of a bed bug infestation? I know I wouldn't be coming in Monday, that's for sure. more » Smitros: Yes it does. more » BookishLookish: His book will not make a dime. This kind of grim shit makes me glad Studs Terkel isn't around to see this. more » MrInBetween: I would buy an audio book of Blago-Nut reading anything -- his poetry, his speeches, the transcripts of his wiretaps, even Ulysses. more » blix: Senate Seats are for Closers. more » eatsshootsleaves: Chapter One Childhood, Or The Psychological Damage That Having A Name That's A Synonym for "Penis" Can Have For Future Decision-Making Chapter Two Sha... more » HiredGoons: Who wants to read this schlock? more » uninspired: Impeachment of a Salesman more » Mount_Prion: Grrr... Can't see comments again. DENTON! FIX IT. more » -
#rumormonger
We Know Which Publisher's Office Has Bedbugs
Galleycat says that employees of a certain large publishing house will be locked out of the office until Monday morning while exterminators deal with a bedbug infestation there. An inside tipster tells us which publisher it is: More » -
#blagosphere
Unemployed Blago Spotted Shopping for a Book Deal in Manhattan
Scandal- and bad-hair-ridden ex-Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was spotted at the Flatiron offices of Macmillan, the book publisher. Blagojevich, who loves poetry as much as he loves profanity, must surely have a memoir in him. More » -
