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I have a new article on the Millennials over at Radar.

Millennials are younger. Healthier. They got to do anal in high school. They think updating a spreadsheet while posting to a Twitter account about gossip on perezhilton.com is an essential corporate skill.... An egregious example of generational bias lies in Gen X's stigma as the "MTV Generation," a title that was always intended as a pejorative. … Ironically, when applied to the Millennials, who are similarly affected by the Internet, possessing a short attention span becomes an accolade. They just call it multitasking.

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From the article "Why Blog? Reason No. 92: Book Deal"

But there are successes. On the nonhumor front, the best seller “Julie and Julia,” about a woman who cooked one Julia Child recipe a day, started as a blog, and “The Hipster Handbook,” spawned from freewilliamsburg.com in 2003, has sold 39,000, according to Nielsen BookScan.

Incidentally, The Hipster Handbook has sold many more copies than reported by BookScan which often doesn't account for sales at independent and college book stores, the places where the satirical book has sold very well.

Posted by Robert Lanham at 05:32 PM | Permalink

I just turned in a piece for a new anthology that will be edited by Sean Manning, Rock & Roll Cage Match (Three Rivers Press, August 5, 2008). I chose the Sabbath vs Zeppelin "rivalry." Sabbath won, of course. The book looks like it will be a lot of fun. Here's a few "rivalries" that will be included:

Elton John vs. Billy Joel (by The Harvard Lampoon)
Hall & Oates vs. Simon & Garfunkel (by Michael Showalter)
"Berlin" Bowie vs. "Ziggy Stardust" Bowie (by Anthony Bozza)
Guided By Voices vs. Pavement (by Elizabeth Goodman)
The Smiths vs. The Cure (by Marc Spitz)
Parliament vs. Funkadelic (by Ben Greenman)
Patsy Cline vs. Kitty Wells (by Laura Cantrell)
The Rolling Stones vs. The Velvet Underground (by Richard Hell)

See the cover, after the jump.

Continue reading "Rock & Roll Cagematch: Music's Greatest Rivalries, Decided" »

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