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Don't Dream It, Be It

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From Mr Bankies' Bucket o' Bits (who else?):


So the news is on here while some of my co-workers eat lunch, and the they're talking about blooks, which are books that are pulled together from a blogs and published. How the hell is this news worthy, and why the fuck does it need its own damn word???

I want that job - the one where someone sits around and has an epiphany like calling a book of collected blog essays a BLOOK. For fuck's sake, this is nothing new. It's a collection of essays. Would we call it a MOOK if those essays were published in New Yorker magazine first? Fuck No!

I can see it know. An anthology of collected fan fiction - Get your Fanthology Today!!!

Somebody shoot me.

Just for fun, here's an interview with Leslie Savan about "pop phrases," from Stay Free.

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