Comments for Meet Guest Bloggers Carrie McLaren And Jason Torchinsky Of Ad Nauseam And StayFree

Meet Guest Bloggers Carrie McLaren And Jason Torchinsky Of Ad Nauseam And StayFree

2009-06-24T17:59:24Z

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.

Comment from BenderRodriguez on 2009-06-25

2009-06-25T18:19:22Z

@BenderRodriguez: BTW, the "meatbag" comment is a reference to Futurama and is nerdy, not creepy.

Comment from BenderRodriguez on 2009-06-25

2009-06-25T18:17:56Z

@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?

Comment from kyle4 on 2009-06-25

2009-06-25T09:28:29Z

@squinko - doesn't need firefighters: Because The Consumerist used to be linked to Gizmodo, the gadget blog.

Comment from RandomHookup on 2009-06-24

2009-06-25T03:22:48Z

@squinko - doesn't need firefighters: The creeps are always here. Women simply give them an opportunity to demonstrate their skillz.

Comment from McLaren and Torchinsky on 2009-06-24

2009-06-25T00:23:08Z

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.

Comment from vladthepaler on 2009-06-24

2009-06-24T23:49:16Z

@Jordan Leventhal:

Blurb is the sound made by a drowning blog.

Comment from squinko on 2009-06-24

2009-06-24T23:02:16Z

Why is it that every time one of the Consumerist women has a picture of them posted, the creeps come out of the woodwork?

Comment from Real Cheese Flavor on 2009-06-24

2009-06-24T22:46:56Z

@Trencher93: I found that to be wonderfully ironic as well.

Nevertheless, it looks like it'd be an interesting read.

Comment from RoosterCockburn on 2009-06-24

2009-06-24T21:29:55Z

Can we just get more pictures of Carrie McLaren? Geek chic ftw.

Comment from squinko on 2009-06-24

2009-06-24T20:05:58Z

@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]

Comment from MostlyHarmless on 2009-06-24

2009-06-24T20:02:03Z

@Jordan Leventhal: Both. Kinda like the F word, but a lot less versatile.

Comment from BenderRodriguez on 2009-06-24

2009-06-24T20:01:52Z

@CoarseLive: Agreed. She is one cutie of a meatbag.

Comment from MostlyHarmless on 2009-06-24

2009-06-24T20:01:38Z

@mantari: If anything, she looks more like Sara K. Smith.

Comment from Trencher93 on 2009-06-24

2009-06-24T19:51:55Z

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.

Comment from Jordan Leventhal on 2009-06-24

2009-06-24T19:34:16Z

What's a blurb? Is it a noun or a verb?

Comment from mantari on 2009-06-24

2009-06-24T19:19:23Z

What does a picture of Tina Fay and some criminal have to do with the story?

Comment from CoarseLive on 2009-06-24

2009-06-24T19:16:23Z

Carrie seems kind of sassy-cute. I'd buy her a beverage.

Comment from csdiego on 2009-06-24

2009-06-24T18:58:21Z

Welcome! First I've heard of you, but I'm looking forward to hearing more.

Comment from AllToAll,ByMyMustard!_GitEmSteveDave on 2009-06-24

2009-06-24T18:53:14Z

@MostlyHarmless:

Comment from Yoko Broke Up The Beatles on 2009-06-24

2009-06-24T18:51:18Z

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.

Comment from MostlyHarmless on 2009-06-24

2009-06-24T18:49:49Z

@AllToAll,ByMyMustard!_GitEmSteveDave: It is a heavy burden to Carry...

Comment from Light Blue Adder on 2009-06-24

2009-06-24T18:45:46Z

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.

Comment from AllToAll,ByMyMustard!_GitEmSteveDave on 2009-06-24

2009-06-24T18:45:40Z

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.

Comment from ElizabethD on 2009-06-24

2009-06-24T18:43:29Z

Welcome! This should be fun.

Comment from TakingItSeriously is Simon on 2009-06-24

2009-06-24T18:32:58Z

Hello there .... glad to see you :)

Comment from syndprod on 2009-06-24

2009-06-24T18:29:29Z

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!