I’m not sure which is more depressing; the fact that Perez Hilton has officially become a published author, or the fact that there is apparently a large enough potential customer base to warrant his blathering being made available in book form.
Do the majority of his site’s regular visitors actually, like, read books?
What’s that, you say? Until now, you had somehow managed to remain inexplicably unaware of his crustaceous existence and are curious as to what sort of mental stimulation one might find on his site? Allow me to present, for your esteemed consideration, one of his most popular posts of late: Peen Exposed in Freak Ski Lift Accident!. Compelling, no? Please do take note of the masterfully rendered “pee pee”-with-squiggly-arrow that has been added to the accompanying picture. Such use of MS Paint to craft subtle, yet striking, emphasis is a requisite skill for any true chronicler of our times. Just ask Tom Wolfe or the late (great) Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.
C’mon Penguin Books, is this really what you had in mind when you launched your Celebra publishing imprint earlier last year? As the self-proclaimed “first imprint to exclusively publish mainstream Hispanic personalities at a major publishing house”, couldn’t you have gone for something a little, I dunno, less likely to make Johannes Gutenberg burst into epileptic fits in his grave? I know, I know, can’t let Judith Regan have all the fun.
Consider me as having joined Webster’s Is My Bitch in their plea that “Seriously, America. Nobody buy this.”… for fuckin’ realz.
January 8, 2009 at 2:14 am
Perez is the modern day Picasso. Yes on 8. the end.
January 8, 2009 at 3:14 am
Now now, if Perez is to be used as evidence in support of anything, I’d think it’d be more along the lines of selective eugenics. After all, us heteros maintain the right to marry despite the fact that The Hills’ Heidi and Spencer continue to exist.