How do you baffle a not-too-smart nation of people who aren’t really much into book-learnin’? Have competing publishers release similarly-titled books about popular idiot Sarah Palin! Not even counting the “I’m buying this only for ironic reasons” crowd in Brooklyn and Silver Lake, there is apparently total chaos in bookstores, as people who’ve only previously visited bible shops in the strip mall out by the edge of town are now pouring into the Borders and B&N or even trying their hand at “the Amazon,” with pitiable results.
The New York Post reports:
A parody of Sarah Palin’s book “Going Rogue: An American Life” has been causing huge confusion — forcing Palin’s publishers HarperCollins to take out ads to direct buyers to the official version.
Colin Robinson, co-publisher of the book, compiled by Nation magazine staffers Betsy Reed and Richard Kim, told Page Six: “We have been contacted by numerous media outlets across the country asking for interviews with Sarah Palin, or companies offering security for her while on tour.
“One Web site not only thought we were Ms. Palin’s publishers but called the book ‘Going Rough.’
Do not tell Andrew Sullivan about this “going rough” business! [New York Post]
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Well, who didn’t see this coming?
Maybe some of them will accidentally read it and actual thoughts will be triggered in their brains…. Nah
Where do I get the bracelet which entitles me to have St. $arah of the North to autograph my copy of “Going Rough”?
I’m hoping that at least one idiot (or undercover operative) gets the grifter to autograph the wrong book.
We have been contacted by numerous media outlets across the country asking for interviews with Sarah Palin
Oh, please please pleeeeease have somebody who sounds like her do an interview. That would be too much fun.
I’m buying the one with the dancing bannanas carrying “PENIS” signs.
Christopher Lloyd’s use of the word ‘blah’ thinks that Palin gets too many mentions on this site.
That NY Post article has my new favorite Palin pic
_Going Bareback: An Expatriate Life_ by Andrew Sullivan.
Question: Can they actually prove that Sarah Palin wrote any of them?
Tina Fey waits patiently in the wings.
called the book ‘Going Rough.’
THAT one a lot of people might buy. Especially if there was a centerfold of Todd in a sling.
“…companies offering security for her while on tour.” Palin is single-handedly stimulating the security business! Watch out Halliburton! Unemployed security types, you now have a mission!
I hear, “Going Rough” is the same as “I’m into DP; are you into DP?” in England.
Last month, some Wonketteer (magic titty or monkeyball, maybe?) suggested the following book cover, but I don’t know if they ever saw the desecration, so here it is again along with its inpiration:
Alaskan Psycho by Sarah Heath Palin
I heard the sinister suggestion that some might take great glee in switching dust jackets, where was that?
[re=465729]Jim89048[/re]: In the cold and rain.
can’t … take … much … more … Palin …
I’m tempted to do a cover for Going Rough with ball gag, some uncomfortable shibari, maybe a little wax torture and milk enema action. Not because I feel like wasting any more time staring at Photoshop files of Palin’s face, mind you, but because I’m running out of excuses to justify my chronic BDSM masturbation problem.
[re=465755]Norbert[/re]: No kidding. Ken’s been away and probably doesn’t realize the Snowbilly Overload warning light is flickering brighter and brighter.
The publishing world does get tricky. John Gardner wrote “Brokenclaw” a James Bond novel and John Gardner wrote “Mickelsson’s Ghosts” not a James Bond novel and readers just have to “know” that one of those was a rogue John Gardner.
[re=465725]rottenart[/re]: What? You mean confusion over which book to buy by the “I want to elect a President that is as stupid as me” crowd?
Welcome back, Ken! I’ve missed you.
Considering that Going Rouge is not available except directly from the publisher, this whole story seems like a bit of a stretch. Except for the stupid people contacting the publisher part. That sounds just about right.
You know, I went to the Barns and Nobel the other day, wanting to buy “Arguing with Idiots” by Glen Beck. But when I looked in the bag once I got home, all there was was a Dora The Explorer sticker book and a chocolate mint candy (which I hate. I like the ones with the cherries in them.) How did that ever happen?
[re=465759]Extemporanus[/re]: Don’t be silly. Just log onto the Wonkette/Excuse Division website. They’ll totes hook you up.
[re=465755]Norbert[/re]: What’s the matter, Carly? Haven’t ya got time for the Palin?
And that Dora, she speaks Spanish all the time, even to people who don’t understand it. She should go back to her own country.
I had a wonderful dream that Sarah Palin choked to death on a Moose Dick®, but I realized it was only a dream, because that Hell Beast has no Gag Reflexes, and breathes only pure human misery via the blowhole hidden in the crenelations of her formidable updo, and has a lot of experience around Moose Dick™, also.
[re=465748]Extemporanus[/re]: I can’t see it at work because they hate fun, but I will check it out later.
[re=465769]bitchincamaro[/re]: Thanks for the tip! I’ll do that just as soon as I figure out how to log-out of every single website run by kink.com.
[re=465772]Extemporanus[/re]: I hate myself for this. Really, truly, deeply.
[re=465737]WadISay[/re]: I prefer the version with the moose shooting a machine gun.
Just what is she exploring, anyway? If she already has a map, how is that exploring, really? And where are her parents, while she’s out “exploring”?
So people who cannot read (cannot distinguish between rogue, rouge, and rough) are buying books why? Maybe they think there are pictures.
Where’s Palin Man? He can solve this problem and help real Americans get the right book.
[re=465767]snideinplainsight[/re]: That’s NOTHING. One time I went to buy a Dora The Explorer sticker book and wound up buying Glenn Beck instead! Now that’s what I call a STICKY SITUATION.
[re=465785]Doglessliberal[/re]: I was told there would be pictures.
How cum da book have but one pitcher and its on the cover? Thought theys be more purty pitchers to look at!
[re=465779]magic titty[/re]: Maybe this direct link is un-fun enough to slip past security.
If not, then I’d put in an immediate request to be transferred to a different facility, or—at the very least—out of solitary.
[re=465791]Jim89048[/re]: Posts that cross on the interwebs You win jim-numbers guy.
[re=465772]Extemporanus[/re]: that was a refreshing break. thanks
I bought Going Rogue, mistaking it for a book.
[re=465777]AbstinenceOnly Ed[/re]: That’s funny, I had a dream last night that my baby sister’s landlady in Denver called up to hassle me about her being two months behind on her rent, and saying “Just ’cause she’s an art student doesn’t mean she has to be a deadbeat.”
Which was funny to me, because my baby sister is 44 years old and has been married to her chiropractor hubby in Seattle for 20 years, has never studied art, and has never even been to Denver, as far as I know.
[re=465785]Doglessliberal[/re]: there ain’t no pitchers? i ain’t a-gonna be readin me no book ain’t got no pitchers, ain’t no learnin in that. one a-them pitchers is worth a thousan a-them words, a reel barggin at enny prass.
[re=465763]Cape Clod[/re]: That can be checked off the list. In fact, its been done four times starting in 1980 and ending in 2004.
Ah, the parody book is a Stalking Moose.
“Duck Amuck” alt-text? Or is that an actual Palin quote?
This “news” about book confusion falls into the half (96 percent) of Rupert Murdoch journamalism that is either “constant fuckups [or] intentional lies”, for which there is now “zero tolerance”.
[re=465767]snideinplainsight[/re]: Oh, Beck’s book is just one of those boxes shaped like a book. They just dumped the contents into your bag. Except there should have been a loaded .22 in there. Also.
I bet the idiots who can’t distinguish the word “Rogue” from “Rouge” were homeschooled.
Theres scores of Libruls stuck with FahrenHYPE 911 DVDs because they snatched them off the rack without close scrutiny. This is a fitting payback. Besides, unlike FahrenHYPE, the knock off is a better read. SUCK IT, BITCHES!!!!
“Going rough” is the Alaskan slang term for intercourse before the woman’s vagina has completely thawed out.
[re=465800]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Well, at least your Schizophrenia’s coming in with a whimper…
Ya know, this is funny in its own way, but I am past all caring about Palin, Inc.
She is getting rich off of McCain’s Mistake, and I am sick of it. Going forward from this date, I will no longer comment on any Palin item. Period.
(Let’s see how long THAT pledge lasts…)
Next book by Palin: “Alway’s Read the Fine Print in Publisher’s Contracts” by Dirt Farmer Palin.
Todd Palen’s book: “Limpballs Gabe Us’n 20 Acres an a Mule after we Haid ta Pay Back FOX Publishin’ Da Advance on Goin’ Labial”.
“Not even counting the “I’m buying this only for ironic reasons” crowd in Brooklyn and Silver Lake….”
I grew up in Silver Lake (where the fruits pick the people). How dare you call us “ironic”? Does that mean the same as “moronic”? Let me tell you this: not everyone in Silver Lake hates Sarah. Take me for example. I am a native Silver Lakean. I don’t hate Sarah. In fact, I want to eat a mooseburger, or perhaps a snowbilly goddess. So there!
No matter which one the semi-literate wingnuts buy, they’ll only read it till their lips get tired.
[re=465908]ella[/re]: Or their fingers, as it really is an effort to literally follow each line to keep your place. Those are the kids who show up in the remedial classes too, the ones using their fingers. Except the kids are in third grade and Palination is comprised of… adults?
[re=465874]teebob2000[/re]: +1 for making me almost spit tuna fish all over my keyboard.
Ken’s back!!
I like switching the book jackets in the store …
It makes me happy.
[re=465736]SayItWithWookies[/re]: And the interviewer should use an over the top fake French accent, no?
Do you realize that if you take the New York Times and Washington Post and mix them up, you get the Washington Times and The New York Post. Something to think about besides Sarah.
[re=465801]slappypaddy[/re]: “there ain’t no pitchers? i ain’t a-gonna be readin me no book ain’t got no pitchers, ain’t no learnin in that. one a-them pitchers is worth a thousan a-them words, a reel barggin at enny prass.”
I am interested in your ideas, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. I have this theory that the written word is both elitist and of the devil. Oh, and it also has a liberal agenda and bias. Also. It’s why I am partial to switching humans back to the reading and writing heiroglyphics. But, I then second-guess myself, because the most famous heiroglyphs are from those damned Africans in that-there heatheny Egyptland.
[re=465734]Advocatus_Diaboli[/re]: “I’m hoping that at least one idiot (or undercover operative) gets the grifter to autograph the wrong book.”
Now THAT would actually be worth something on eBay.
[re=465881]proudgrampa[/re]: “I will no longer comment on any Palin item. Period.”
It’s an admirable pledge, Grampy; I’ve made it myself … many times.
I predict each of the Palin children (and Todd!!) will write a “Mommy Dearest” book with titles like _Going Rough”, “Getting Rouge,” “Getting in bed with Larouche,” and other absurdities.
[re=465744]Sharkey[/re]: Xe, don’t you think? Eric Prince is a Xtn Crusader! Except when he’s not.
“Not even counting the “I’m buying this only for ironic reasons” crowd in Brooklyn and Silver Lake….”
That winking trollop never gets to extrude her soft mouth-parts around ANY of MY money, ironic postmodern hipster cred be damned.
The right-wing brainiacs add another chapter to their glorious history of being not too bright.
[re=465743]Joshua Norton[/re]: with a rifle barrel dipped in astroglide…
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