stuff white people without jobs don't like
#1: Reading About a White Guy Who Only Started Blogging 4 Months Ago and Already Has a Book Deal
Ok, so his "Stuff White People Like" blog is brilliant. Who cares? As all two of you who read "Touch My Ennui" know (hi mom and dad), we've been(that would be the royal we) updating our little nook of the blogosphere - albeit sporadically - for going on three years now and Random House hasn't once offered us a little something (wink wink) for our "efforts."
Sure there was that one moment when a friend clued me in to the fact that Touch My Ennui had been mentioned on an L Word stalker site because I happened to poke fun at Shane aka Kate Moennig's extraordinarily small feet which mesmerized me during her way off-Broadway turn as that dykey white trash soldier who put a guy on a leash only to get pregnant and court martialed. You totally know who I'm talking about, don't even pretend that you don't.
Needless to say, the passing mention did not get me millions of readers, pop culture fame, and - dare I say it again? - a book deal. I want a book deal!
All of this was made even worse because I read about Stuff White People Like's blowout success while sitting at my internship eating the free lunch I brought from home because, in case you missed it, I am the oldest living intern on the planet. There's nothing like eating out of a Ziploc bag in a nonprofit agency for homeless people where you work 3 days a week for free at an age roundly considered to be too old to not have a job that, you know, actually pays.
Not that I'm resentful. As I said, I enjoy Stuff White People Like just as much as the next white person and the people who like to laugh at white people. I just can't afford half of what he talks about. Of course, maybe that's the point.
Ok, so his "Stuff White People Like" blog is brilliant. Who cares? As all two of you who read "Touch My Ennui" know (hi mom and dad), we've been(that would be the royal we) updating our little nook of the blogosphere - albeit sporadically - for going on three years now and Random House hasn't once offered us a little something (wink wink) for our "efforts."
Sure there was that one moment when a friend clued me in to the fact that Touch My Ennui had been mentioned on an L Word stalker site because I happened to poke fun at Shane aka Kate Moennig's extraordinarily small feet which mesmerized me during her way off-Broadway turn as that dykey white trash soldier who put a guy on a leash only to get pregnant and court martialed. You totally know who I'm talking about, don't even pretend that you don't.
Needless to say, the passing mention did not get me millions of readers, pop culture fame, and - dare I say it again? - a book deal. I want a book deal!
All of this was made even worse because I read about Stuff White People Like's blowout success while sitting at my internship eating the free lunch I brought from home because, in case you missed it, I am the oldest living intern on the planet. There's nothing like eating out of a Ziploc bag in a nonprofit agency for homeless people where you work 3 days a week for free at an age roundly considered to be too old to not have a job that, you know, actually pays.
Not that I'm resentful. As I said, I enjoy Stuff White People Like just as much as the next white person and the people who like to laugh at white people. I just can't afford half of what he talks about. Of course, maybe that's the point.
posted by Jen Warner at 7:28 PM
2 Comments:
I have to say I'm truly hurt that as a loyal TME reader I did not get a shout out.
And by the way, you deserve a book deal, a movie, and your own talk show!!!
el g
You are hilarious enough to write a book--why don't you--in all your spare time!
You're not the oldest intern. My co-intern is 59. And she brings her lunch too:)
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