Meet Guest Bloggers Carrie McLaren And Jason Torchinsky Of Ad Nauseam And StayFree
I'm stoked that Carrie McLaren and Jason Torchinsky, co-editors of Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture (which I blurbed, my first blurb!), will be guest-blogging, tag-team style, with us this week and next. Carrie was editor of the awesome Stay Free! Magazine, which alternately skewered and threw cream pies at our marketing-drenched society. Jason is an artist who also writes for the Onion News Network, but just for sport. Please give them a warm welcome and enjoy the show.
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Hello there .... glad to see you :)
Welcome! This should be fun.
Do you get labcoats for being a guest blogger? But seriously, I love the Onion news network very much. They never fail to make me laugh. So what is Doyle really like?
Now I just have to make sure I don't confuse Carey, Carrie, Kari from Mythbusters, and my Ex, Kari.
Glad to see you both. I haven't seen Jason since he was wrestling young republicans in the pit at UNC around 1993 or so. I've never met you Carrie, but I used to read Stay Free while I was at UNC.
glad to see you 2 are still writing and getting better and better.
FUCK YEAH I'm down with this! Stay Free's Illegal Art compilation CD is simply fantastic. Where else can you get the Beastie Boys' "Rock Hard" so easily?
Keep up the good work guys.
Welcome! First I've heard of you, but I'm looking forward to hearing more.
Carrie seems kind of sassy-cute. I'd buy her a beverage.
What does a picture of Tina Fay and some criminal have to do with the story?
What's a blurb? Is it a noun or a verb?
Their sample chapter is a preface selling you on the book (not any real content you could read and evaluate to see if the book is worthwhile), so I guess they know what they're talking about.
@Jordan Leventhal: Dictionaries are your friend:
blurb
Noun
a promotional description, such as on the jackets of books [coined by G. Burgess, humorist & illustrator]
[www.thefreedictionary.com]
Can we just get more pictures of Carrie McLaren? Geek chic ftw.
@Trencher93: I found that to be wonderfully ironic as well.
Nevertheless, it looks like it'd be an interesting read.
Why is it that every time one of the Consumerist women has a picture of them posted, the creeps come out of the woodwork?
The excerpt includes the TOC, the foreword (which does indeed promote the book; we didn't write it), and the preface. I think Trencher has confused the foreword with the preface and, um, didn't read more than those few pages.
We'll post more content later but, geez, the book has only been out a day.
@squinko - doesn't need firefighters: The creeps are always here. Women simply give them an opportunity to demonstrate their skillz.
@squinko - doesn't need firefighters: Because The Consumerist used to be linked to Gizmodo, the gadget blog.
@squinko - doesn't need firefighters: How exactly is it creepy to say someone is cute?? If you consider that creepy, how low must your perversion threshold be?
So happy to see Carrie & Jason guest blogging this week! I was a huge fan of STAY FREE! since I saw an issue back around 1996. Off to buy the book now!