Memed Out
Have you read
Stuff White People Like? It's a very funny blog. We hope it will be a very, very, very funny book. Actually, it will probably have to be the funniest book in the entire fucking world to sell enough copies to justify the alleged
$350,000 Random House advance,
as reported by the Observer's Leon Neyfakh. (Random House's publicity department won't confirm the actual amount, but they say that $350,000 is an incorrect figure.)
Neyfakh also points out that
I Can Has Cheezburger, another
cute web phenomenon that started on the 4chan message boards, along with
anti-Scientology supergroup Anonymous., is
similarly basking in the literary glory of viral meme fame. On the political front,
Barack Obama Is My New Bicycle also scored a recent contract. Both Cheez and Bicycle will be published by Gotham Books.
Bloggers who get memoir deals? So over!
Quirky meme-creators who get coffee table, gifty humor-pop-culture deals? So now! So very now! Coming soon to your local Urban Outfitters.