I've got a secret.

We all know PostSecret's deal by now. People create art out of their secrets on a postcard, mail it to that Frank guy, and he picks the best and features them every week. PostSecret has led to Frank being hailed as a great artist, and he frequently gives public lectures and travels around with public displays around the country. There are not one, not two, not three, but at least five PostSecret books on Amazon. Five coffee-table books! If I scanned pictures of the postcards my friends send me, do you think I could get a book deal? Some of them are very beautiful, but none of them divulge any juicy tidbits that leave you wondering about the larger going-ons of their lives. I'm just at a loss of words with this one, folks, and can't even think of something witty to say. Five books that are all user-generated content, with little, if any, commentary. I'm at a loss of words; I can't even try to be witty.

Inspirational Blog Post

What inspires blog posts? What inspires bloggers to post inspirational pics or tell inspirational stories on blogs? What about a particular picture or life-changing-event will make itself known to a relevant blogger as being blogworthy and inspirational?

These are the thoughts which ran through my head as I sat eating my booof bourguignon and typing my first blogpost.

Should I post pictures of people that look silly? Should I post pictures of silly looking cakes? Should I post pictures of silly looking people who make silly looking cakes? Or should I bake a silly cake from cakewrecks.blogspot.com every day for a year and blog about it?

Imagine the first time that the guy from CakeWrecks, or the guy from LookAtThisFuckingHipster, or Julie from that blog she wrote in that movie, sat down at a laptop and pounded out their feelings in blog form.

What I need is to be inspired like they were. Through what venue my inspiration will come, I am unsure. But to start, I've posted a picture. It is certainly provocative and erotic. But is it inspirational and relevant to the blogosphere/blog readers/publishers? Only time will tell.

What a wreck!

Cake Wrecks has announced that their book has left the warehouse and is on its way to bookstores as I type, contrary to a faulty rumor that it was possibly delayed until October. All the Cake Wrecks blog consists of is pictures of odd and sometimes poorly done cakes, usually with misspelled icing, and some not-that-witty commentary.

Where's the delay in the shipment of our book, Andrews McNeel? huh?

The resounding sound of silence after I asked that question aloud to my empty apartment reminds me that I'm lonely here in Brooklyn.

LATFH has a book deal

So, while reading Gakwer today, I came across this little nugget: http://gawker.com/5352068/look-at-this-fking-hipster-release-form

It discusses release forms necessary for photos to be used in the book to be written accompanying the blog Look at this Fucking Hipster. Read that sentence again:

It discusses release forms necessary for photos to be used in the book to be written accompanying the blog Look at this Fucking Hipster.

Another blog turned into a book before ours. What the heck, literary agents, can't you recognize real publishing gold when it's in front of your eyes? I'm thoroughly disappointed in the shitsphere we call the publishing industry.

Really Important Life Changing Decisions

Hi devoted readers who I already know. I was having a quarter life crisis the other night and was all, "You know, what good is a teaching job and a Masters degree? All my stupid friends who I hate have really successful blogs that are being turned into really successful novels and films." Then my boyfriends Ravi and Matt O'Connell were like, "You have thoughts," and I was like, "I know!" So here I am ;)

It was so upsetting after graduating from Barnard with HONORS in the really tough major of THEATRE to find myself in a dead end job. So now I'm turning my entire life into a blog and everything I ever do or say that is clever will be on it.

TTFN

urz truly

V

Hello, publicists!

We are just a trio of young, adorable twenty-somethings with an urge to recreate other people's experiences and live vicariously through our imaginings of what their lives might have been like. Through this blog, we will write uninspired musings on those imagined lives, all while injecting bits and pieces of our own existences, which although quite privileged, we will present as unbearable.

You will then give us a book and movie deal.

Looking forward to reading your comments!