Portlandia's Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein teamed up with podcaster/comedian extraordinaire Julie Klausner for Vulture to visit a real feminist bookstore just like the one they depict in Portlandia. Watching the video is like looking at weird books and doing bits with your friends but if your friends were waaaayyyy funnier.
And so it was written: "We'll just let it do what it do." It's a shame Gary Oldman (aka the anti-Henny Youngman) chose to read this excerpt from Soula Coaster in his fancy British voice instead of his often-used villainous British voice. Or maybe he could have read it as Sid Vicious! Or whatever that voice was in The Fifth Element! There are just so many great options! This better be a weekly segment, Gary and Jimmy.
Community and Channel 101 mastermind Dan Harmon is releasing his first book, a collection of the best writings from his amazing blog, "Dan Harmon Poops." The book, entitled You'll Be Perfect When You're Dead: The Collected Online Writings of Dan Harmon, was just announced as a surprise to fans yesterday by Harmon's girlfriend Erin McGathy on Twitter and Reddit to coincide with the tour of Harmon's live show "Harmontown." It's a 307-page book that will only be available for purchase on Harmontown.com tomorrow, 1/8/13, from 12AM to 11:59PST, or during stops on the Harmontown tour (if there are copies left). Only 900 copies of [...]
There once was a man named Stephen A children's book, he was feelin' It's about a pole Money is the goal The audiobook, Tom Hanks's readin'
I Am a Pole (And So Can You) comes out on May 8th and will be his first of two books coming out this year (the 2nd being America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't out October 2nd). To prepare for his future children's book celebrity he spoke (and sang) with Julie Andrew about writing and sparkle and dumps:
Earlier this year, Girls star and creator Lena Dunham made headlines when she sold her first book to Random House for a whopping $3.7 million. Titled Not That Kind of Girl: Advice by Lena Dunham, it's full of "frank and funny advice on everything from sex to eating to traveling to work" in the style of Helen Gurley Brown's Having It All. Now, Gawker has published the entire 66-page proposal for the book, which they point out made Dunham $56,000 a page. Head over to Gawker to take a look at the entire proposal, which you can use as a blueprint to scoring a $3.7 million book [...]
Remember all the way back in January, when your younger sister said shit like, "Did you see this video? It's just like how my friends and I talk?" And your Dad said shit like, "Did you see the thing on the computer, where that fella says things like you and your sister?" And your grandmother said shit like, "What is that robot doing flashing lights and cussing at me!?" And you explained to all of them, how it was based on a Twitter account that your friend from college, whom you don't really talk to anymore, likes to Retweet and they each understood you to varying degrees and [...]
