Your blog is so bad it killed the blogosphere

Picks of the Week

Adam Thirlwell: Politics: A Novel (P.S.)
One would think this book is about sex, And while it is, since the characters have so much about it, some of it is kinky, and threesomes play a big role in the narrative. mostly POLITICS is about everything else: the mechanics, the logistics, the emotional minefields, the awkward questions, the moral dilemmas, and, well, the politics of what it is to be with someone you love or someone you don't, and how an act that should be simple is anything but. Thirlwell was disgustingly young when he wrote this but he absolutely understands that to make this book work, there must be an underlying sweetness and sincerity to the entire story. Now I want to see what he's up to more recently. Amazon | Indiebound | B & N | Borders | Powell’s
Jennifer Mascia: Never Tell Our Business to Strangers: A Memoir
Years ago I was blown away by Mascia's Modern Love piece describing her parents' secret past: her father was a mobbed-up convicted murderer, and her mother not only knew all about it, but aided and abetted her husband when life required being a fugitive, selling drugs, and living at great highs and crushing lows. Mascia's book tells a more whole story about her peripatetic life, and even with every new shocking revelation what remained consistent was how much she loved her parents, no matter how deep those lows went, and how much she misses them now that they are gone. Unconditional love never goes away, no matter if those who receive it deserve it. Indiebound | Amazon | Borders | B & N | Powell’s
Juli Zeh: In Free Fall
Give me a novel of ideas and if the story is good and the characters are believable and entertain me, I am there. Give me a crime novel of ideas, where two physics professors, friends and rivals, opposites but startlingly similar, do emotional battle on an intellectual canvas, raise the stakes through betrayal, the possible kidnapping of a child, and embroil a romantic-leaning police detective in the complicated machinations of quantum theory, and holy hell, I think I have myself one of my favorite books of the year. Powell’s | Indiebound | Amazon | Borders | B & N
Simon Lelic: A Thousand Cuts
It appears to be a crime with an easy solution: a disgruntled schoolteacher shoots up his place of employment and kills several students in the process. But really, Lelic's novel is about the catastrophic consequences of bullying, and how this act is hardly limited to kids turning on other kids, but burrows deeply into adult relationships as well. He evokes empathy for the killer and sympathy for Lucia, the investigating officer who has to fight for every scrap of dignity as she pieces together the far more complex truth of what really happened at the school. Powell’s | Amazon | Borders | Indiebound | B & N
William Lindsay Gresham: Nightmare Alley
I cannot stop raving about this book to people. The circular narrative structure, the demented feel of a traveling carny troupe, and the extraordinary rise and precipitous fall of Stan Carlisle give off the persistent, raging feeling that hell is always with us, and success is basically a sucker's game. No matter what the biographical evidence on Gresham's state of mind leading up to and after the book's bestseller (and movie basis) status in 1946, I don't think we can really know what demons plagued him to produce this marvelous noir gem. B & N | Indiebound | Amazon | Borders | Powell’s

May 24, 2005

Maybe it's a slow day, or maybe I'm easily amused, but whatever the case, this collaboration between TMFTML and Lindsay Robertson will no doubt inspire many new variations. Some of my favorites:

Your blog is so stupid Rosie O’Donell made fun of it in free verse on her blog.

Your blog is so boring Nick Denton wants to pay you $1000 a month not to write.

Your blog is like a pedestrian walkway: no traffic.

Your blog is so self-indulgent Stephanie Klein sent you a box of tampons and a note that says, “Get over it.”

Your blog is so badly written it got you your own column at the New York Press.

Feel free to add your own suggestions in the backblogs.

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Your blog is so bad I liked it less than the opening chapter of Lunchbox Hero.

;-)

Posted by: John Rickards | May 24, 2005 at 11:22 AM

Man, that joke is so lame they had to bring in Jesus to heal it.

Posted by: Bryon | May 24, 2005 at 12:11 PM

Leave me out of this.

Posted by: Jesus | May 24, 2005 at 01:13 PM

this blog is so bad it reminds me of the time God smote the prophets of Baal. Er...

Posted by: christin | May 24, 2005 at 01:28 PM

Your blog is so bad, fanficcers write to Lee Goldberg to make fun of it.

Posted by: Jim Winter | May 24, 2005 at 02:29 PM

Your blog's so boring, all your arguments are with Viagra spambots.

Posted by: Keith | May 24, 2005 at 03:08 PM

Your blog is so bad, people call it a "glob".

Posted by: Graham | May 24, 2005 at 03:48 PM

Your blog is so bad it's nickname is "Dave White's Writing Block."

Posted by: Dave White | May 24, 2005 at 08:13 PM

Your blog is so bad ....
posting nude pictures of Angela Jolie would not bring people to it.

Posted by: jon the crimespree guy | May 25, 2005 at 12:46 AM

George Bush reads your blog while listening to his ipod.

Posted by: Left Ahead | May 25, 2005 at 03:21 PM

it is funny and cute

Posted by: kate | March 12, 2006 at 03:37 AM

your blog is so cool, never stop bloging.

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