It wasn't so long ago that REAL journalists thumbed their noses at BLOGGERS.

Tool.

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Mmmhmm. And the artistic renaissance that emerged as a a result of the STREETS in SoHo.

Gee Hamilton Nolan I had no idea you're such an elitist.

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"This book made me want to pee inside it." -- Seven-year-old child in the pool area of the Days Inn in Hicksville NY

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Although the last week without Gawker would make for an interesting self-published psychological thriller. Will Tofu throw his computer against a wall? Where will he use his un-posted puns? Keep reading and find out!

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Reminds me of the infamous (and hilarious) hoax the saga of Atlanta Nights.

A vanity press pretended that they only selected the finest books it was an honor to be chosen. A writer and his friends submitted the worst novel they could and it was accepted:

They collaborated on a deliberately low-quality work complete with obvious grammatical errors nonsensical passages and a complete lack of a coherent plot.

The distinctive flaws of Atlanta Nights include nonidentical chapters written by two different authors from the same segment of outline a missing chapter two chapters that are word-for-word identical to each other two different chapters with the same chapter number and a chapter "written" by a computer program that generated random text based on patterns found in the previous chapters .

Characters change gender and race; they die and reappear without explanation. Spelling and grammar are nonstandard and the formatting is inconsistent. The initials of characters who were named in the book spelled out the phrase "PublishAmerica is a vanity press."

The finale was also crafted to be deliberately bad; not only are all the previous events of the plot revealed to have been a dream (long condemned as a "cheat" ending) but even after this revelation the book continues for several more chapters.

[en.wikipedia.org]

The blurbs were also pretty funny:

[www.travistea.com]

"Maybe once in a lifetime there comes a book with such extraordinary characters thrilling plot twists and uncanny insight that it comes to embody its time. ATLANTA NIGHTS is a book." - Adam-Troy Castro

Hurry publishing industry! Save yourself before I accidentally order another self-published book from Amazon and when I get it wonder why it makes no sense. My willy nilly Amazon spending is on your shoulders!

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Someone once said something about the measure of any civilization being the quality and appreciation of its art. (Something like that anyway.) We're obviously on a downward spiral if that's the case.

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