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Do you occasionally wonder,
- What kind of person works at a porn video store?
- Do public defenders believe in their clients?
- What does a reporter feel when he visits war-torn Iraq?
- What happens after a child star falls into obscurity?
Thanks to Web logs, or "blogs" as they're affectionately nicknamed by Net-savvy voyeurs, anyone can jump into the shoes of a video salesclerk, a criminal court lawyer, an international journalist, or a TV star, among others.
While entertaining and educating, these virtual diaries represent a cross section of the people who dwell online. This book features the Internet's most provocative writing, by unknown writers and underground celebrities.
Neil Forrester, former cast member of MTV's
The Real World, gives new meaning to the phrase "Bite your tongue." Meanwhile,
Star Trek: The Next Generation actor, Wil Wheaton, gives his take on the Hollywood system and fleeting stardom.
Elsewhere, web designer Heather Hamilton finds herself unemployed after posting on-the-job stories to her personal blog. And humorist Choire Sicha shares advice about broken hearts and timeshares. Plus: tales of creepy video-store customers, office pranks gone awry, a childhood encounter with Darth Vader, and so much more!
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Bling Bling Strategies For The New Economy.- Why George F. Will?.- Lube Warning.- Jon's Wife.- Spare Us The Cutter.- 1999.- Last Night At The Grocery Store.- Darth Vader Made Me Cry.- Alabama Hamilton.- "DID HE DO IT?".- Romance.- Celebrity.- Known In The Gates.- Customers I Have Driven Out Of The Store.- Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers.- Brad Pitt: Your Remakes Are Ready.- Kookoo for Coconuts.- You've Got Ringworm.- Lost In Translation.- A Smart Suit And A Kipper Tie, A Big Arrow Pointing To My Fly.- Dear Cranky Old Bitch.- After Spending Two Weeks At My Parents House.- The Girl Who Cried Webmaster.- When Is A Reporter Not A Reporter?.- The Problem With Airplanes.- The Art Of Getting Away With It.- High Five.- Twenty-One Provocations.- Reflections-Artificial Sweetener.- Volvulus.- Democratic National Blog?.- Long Before I Blogged.- Logic.- When The Waiter Came.- I Saw U.- Red Hot And Blue.- Disasters Of The Natural Variety.- September 11, 2003.- Business Cards.- Jury Duty.- Poll: 7/5 of Americans Don't Bother To Do The Math.- Chatty.- Look On The Bright Side.- Junior Crime Dog.- How To Annoy Me.- Broken Hearts.- Clutching For Answers In Baghdad.- Con Man.- I Don't Know About Your Blog.- Fuctung.- The Gameshow.- Hester Prynne.- My Cred Is Intact.- Celebrity Sightings From Antiquity.- My Beautiful Life? Not Exactly.- Drew's Blog.- It's All In The Packaging.- Close.- A Chair! A Chair! My Kingdom For A Chair!.- Cat Magnet.- Worthless Public Defenders.- What Up, Boss.- Neighbor.- Hey! Parking Lot Blowjob Man!.- Letter From New York City's President.- Things In The Past Week That Have Brought Me To Uncontrollable, Blubbering Tears.- Notes Toward A Constitution For Communal Beach Houses.- Appendix A.- Editor's FAQ.- Appendix B.- Index ofContributors.
Zusammenfassung
Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers: Best of Blogs is a compendium of the best blog entries available on the Internet. Scoured from hundreds of blogs and selected from a panel of blue-ribbon judges, the book compiles the very unique perspectives of many of those that choose to record their everyday lives in public forums. From the comedic to the dramatic to the tragic, the book offers a little bit of everything. Blog assembles 100 of the best blog entries on the Internet into a short, hardback reader.
