Via Instapundit and the Washington Post, we learn that Ana Marie Cox of Wonkette fame is handing off the reins to her site (Underneath Their Robes’ David Lat will take over)—hardly a surprise, given that she’s landed a second book deal, from Riverhead again, for a non-fiction work that will purportedly take on “the next generation of political activists” and be out in time for the 2008 elections. The deal is reportedly worth somewhere “in the mid-six-figures.” Cox’s first book, the novel Dog Days, streets tomorrow.
Congrats, and best of luck to Wonkette.
Me, I’ve yet to land that elusive mid-six-figure book deal (or any book deal, for that matter)—though I understand some of my Cafe Press mugs are selling at quite a brisk clip! So y’know, silver linings and all that.
Yeah. Well, then.
I’m taking the rest of the day off.
Not much of a mug man myself, but oh, that apple t-shirt was delish!
I always had you figured for more of a screenplay guy – talk to Roger L. Simon. You now, a buddy pic featuring the macintosh apple and the ‘dillo. Maybe a spy thriller flic with the dolphin in a pea-coat?
Tee hee hee… “Cox.”
Well, Jeff, you know what you have to do to get a book deal.
Now bend over.
Me, if I’m a publisher, “Brautigan, Revisited”, no questions asked. Write your own check.
But that’s just me.
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This time, it’s hermeneutic…..
Heard the Wonkette book sucks, but that’s just through the grapevine. All the more reason to be irritated.
Hey, on your deathbed you’ll get total consciousness. So you got that going for you, which is sweet.
Jeff you’re just not sleeping with the right people.
Just think if you had an ass like this, you’d be getting book deals also. Oh, sorry that’s a head shot, my bad.
Apparently either end and any orifice works, so the confusion re the picture is understandable. Damn snarky, but understandable.
The great dilemma. Do we wish Wonkette’s book well, and hope that other publishers start looking to the blogosphere as a place to sign new blood, or do we take indulge in sweet, sweet Schadenfreude when she falls flat on her face.
My answer? You go, girl!
You forget that Ana Marie toiled away as the Antic Muse for blog-years and blog-years and blog-years before moving to a new blog, developing a focus and becoming “Wonkette” and popularizing assfucking with regard to politics.
You’re still “Protein Wisdom” after blogging away for roughly the same amount of time.
The blogger who’s on a similar glide-path to Ana Marie (started on a personal blog, moved to another blog) and will likely get the next book deal (mid-fives, low sixes) is Amanda Marcotte.
It will be called, simply, “Vaj”
and you will never fully recover.
Maybe if you made lots of ribald comments concerning anal sex like Wonketter did, you might get that book deal, Jeff.
On the other hand, you might become as crappy a blogger as she was. There is something to be said quality.
Now I’m really calling it a day.
Jeff,
My questions is can you take it up the ass and type at the same time? If so, there is still hope.
Jeff, you can take the rest of the day off knowing you don’t have to shower away all the slime that has built up while blogging (and without a dimunition of IQ points), like someone who’ll remain unnamed, in DC.
Don’t sweat it Jeff. Most artists are not fully appreciated until they’re dead. Your window just hasn’t opened yet.
Think positive dude. Look at it this way, Cindy Sheehan got a book deal. Do you really want to be in league with that rancid set of beef curtains?
Anybody interested in a “BECAUSE OF THE HYPOCRISY” mug or t-shirt? Because if so, I’m on it!
I’m on it like stink on a monkey.
Hmmm.
1. I never thought much of Wonkette. Events have proven that mode of thinking correct.
2. I have no interest in reading any book written by Cox. Now or ever.
3. Ok so the main draw of Wonkette.com is that it’s about politics and ass-fucking, or political ass-fucking. And now it’s being written by a *guy*.
So can we all assume that any men visiting that site from now on are gay?
I need some new pajamas…
TW: married.
The mug for me. Let me know when it is available.
“Will Write Free Verse for Food!”
Jeff, I didn’t want to be the one to tell you this, but……….. JEW! There I said it. It’s because you’re a Jew!
I thought that it was painfully obvious by now, but you refused to acknowledge it.
All publishers are anti Semitic. Fuck ‘em! Fuck ‘em all!
Notice to all publishers reading this:
Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
Assfucking is so 2 years ago. Have a sex change operation Jeff and stay ahead of the curve.
TW: why
A mug sounds good!
I dunno – what about an “I’m OUTRAGED” mug (or is that more of an Allah thing?)
I’ve seen that “Naked Testicle Spiderman” pic. Hmmmmm…maybe you should opt for the connectadictomy.
Just trying to be helpful.
They signed Howard Stern for $500,000,000 if that’s any consolation.
Its a race to the bottom- which begs the question: How low can you go?
What, no “GAY PORN COCK OF LIES” 13-inch dildos on sale in the PW Shoppe? I mean, c’mon…
Oh, ok. The “HYPOCRISY” mug for me then. The big one. I like a lottta hypocrisy with my caffine.
And stop lookin’ at me like that.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
(1) Ana Marie is hot.
(2) Ana Marie is a statistics geek.
(3) Ana Marie is now rich.
Ergo: Can someone find me her phone number?
Don’t think I ever read wonkette. Did I miss anything?
Jeff,
I keep saying, comedy album.
richard, you would miss Wonkette only if you like a lot snide remarks about politicians obssessed with anal sex. I read her for a while, and then deleted the bookmark.
Can I re-empahsize that Ana Marie Cox is really not that cute. Her little ass fucking buddy Cutler wasn’t too bad but I doubt I’d look twice as Cox on the street.
’(1) Ana Marie is hot. ‘
Only by the standards that politics is Hollywood for ugly people.
If she’s hot, she needs to crank up the A/C.