Friday fun: in praise of public transport

Written By: - Date published: 2:30 pm, October 29th, 2010 - 3 comments
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Another 5-second film. Joyce might want his holiday highway Road of Personal Significance but has he considered the benefits of buses for crime fighting?

Also, you know Dino Comics, eh? Ryan North, the author, wrote a book with some other web humorists called ‘Machine of Death‘. It’s hilarious. Couldn’t get it published by a mainstream publisher. Did it themselves. Sold it on Amazon. They asked their readers to hold off buying it until the 26th of October to get it more attention. It shot to number #1. Stayed there for two days. Got them some attention alright. Glenn Beck was pissed. North explains:

“The Machine of Death story keeps getting weirder / more awesome. American conservative talky guy Glenn Beck called us out on his show yesterday because it turned out that his book also had its official release date on October 26th, and he was upset that it was in third place to Keith Richard’s new autobio “Life” and our little book. He told his listeners that he’d worked on his book for over a year, and that his books always debut at #1, and that we (along with Keith) were part of a left-wing “culture of death” that “celebrates the things that have destroyed us” and that everyone should support life by buying his book instead of ours?

It’s basically amazing.

So now he’s the #1 book on Amazon, and I can’t really fault him for getting there by simply asking people to buy his book, since, you know, that’s kinda exactly what we did on October 26th! But it is sort of awesome to have a celebrity beef with none other than Glenn Beck. It’s also sort of awesome that he’s mad at us for something we did entirely by accident: we didn’t put the book out to spite him or to forever ruin his record for #1 book launches, and the only time I even noticed him was when we passed his book while moving from #5 to #2. It was honestly nothing personal, Glenn! For most of the time, we didn’t even know you were there.”

Glenn Beck. Beaten by some punk-arse kids and their homemade book.

3 comments on “Friday fun: in praise of public transport ”

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  1. Ian 1
    29 October 2010 at 9:33 pm

    Expect a flood of tears from Glenn. On TV of course.

    • Vicky32 1.1
      30 October 2010 at 12:26 am

      What a sense of entitlement the guy has! My son heard him on the flatties TV the other day, and was hilariated…
      Deb

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