An interview with self is up at the Washington Post about the book (which comes out next week! Why isn’t it out now?), and it’s full of wisdom just like this.
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“If a lot of high school guys hate something it’s probably good” –> actually might get this as a tattoo.
The best part is when he casually asks Mallory, “Do you have kids?” HAHAHAH
“Children’s Book Author, Mallory Ortberg”
WHY ISN’T IT OUT NOW is a perfectly valid question and one I am asking myself repeatedly today. I thought the release date had already happened and that my copy got stuck in the mail somewhere! Or that someone stole it from us! But now I see the date is next week and I has a sad.
Me right now:
I thought “interview with self” meant this was going to be a David Byrne-type thing. This was still very good, despite the dude creepzoning himself.
oh pfffft “aren’t more than a dozen students of the metaphysical poets who know how funny she’s being” as if we haven’t all read John Donne over here WITH OR WITHOUT being a fuckin ‘student of’ as if that’s the only reason you would.
no no it’s a great interview, he’s great.
Right? How condescending. Methinks he’s just a bit sore that such a fun, intellectually hilarious website was created for women and not men.
the idea of a Man supposing that the average woman has not read every book in print and some not yet written. THE VERY IDEA
I hate when men try to get all Academic Hipster about well-known authors. Dude, seriously, people read John Donne. You’re not a member of the super-secret club of People Who Understand That Mallory Is Screamingly Funny. WE KNOW THAT.
“Who gets that joke? You make me feel like the smartest person in the world.” WELL, bro, maybe if you read The Toast more often, you’d see that a whole bunch of people get that joke, as well as many other jokes.
Bless Mallory also for shooting down the idea that people can’t read both text messages and classic literature. The reason I started reading the Toast was the parodies of all young adult fiction novels ever, and the reason I started commenting was a knowledgeable discussion of Renaissance paintings of Judith Beheading Holofernes.
That’s when I started commenting, too. :3 There’s something about Judy…
and many of them are FOTFL
I’m assuming that’s “fall on the floor laughing” and I just want to ask – why? Why, dude? We already have ROFL, a perfectly cromulent acronym which means the exact same thing but has the considerable advantage that people actually use it. It’s also more logical – you’re more likely than not to start rolling on the floor after you’ve fallen on it, and it goes without saying that if you’re rolling on the floor, you’ve already fallen on it.
Given that he had never typed OMG until this very interview, I’d suggest he was Trying Too Hard To Be Hip And With It.
“A colleague tells me his daughter doesn’t even use words now. It’s all [toilet] [mailbox] [sad graph] [sad face] [building with clock on the front].”
Quick, Toasties, let us use our collective brainpower to decipher the daughter’s message! “Dad, I took a dump in the mailbox and wiped with your financial adviser’s quarterly report on your stocks, because I was upset about school”?
+1 million Likes
“Oh shit, I got the mail just now and my student loan payment this month is going to totally empty my bank account, which makes me sad. SCHOOL.”
This interview was great, and definitely enhanced by his effort to be A Cool Dad, Not Like A Regular Dad.
Cromulent.
Thank you.
Ohh, it was actually an old person interviewing Mallory. He had me fooled for a bit.
“LOL parody”
lololll
Mallory, you too can get emoji on your phone!
Somehow I missed the Prufrock post, and I just read it, and it was perfect.
long-time reader, first time commenter here. The interviewer is married to one of my favorite high school English teachers. I don’t know him super well but she’s a badass so i mostly trust that he’s not all bad. am inclined to agree with GruntledDave that he was Trying too Hard to be Hip and it came across weird in moments.
Count me in as someone who’s a little bit of a Ron Charles fan based on this video (and others): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPYl1_D6b_4&l… I’d never heard of him until I saw that video but I laugh every time. I think he’s a little bit of a goofball and possibly trying too hard but I have a soft spot for him.
Mallory, don’t sweat on that HTC One unless you are trying to kill it.
The interview will not load no matter what I try. *Cries softly to self*
I can’t get it either!
I couldn’t see it on Firefox, but I could see it when I switched to Safari!
Do the most recent Flash Player update!!
The plug-in crashed my computer too until I remembered there had been an update a couple days ago that I had ignored.
That is, in fact, a marvelous hat. And you really have to love a Renaissance poet who wrote erotic poetry to his own wife, rather than to a married woman, a teenager, or a Mysterious Foreign Spy.
I feel like you are going to become more successful and then all of us toasties who were here from the start are going to get swept away by the tides of fame.
The more successful you are the less important I feel.
Stap it.
(Don’t stop, congrats!)
The HTC One M8 is the successor and update to last year’s most popular phone, and it still brings a lot to the table to love. The One M8 is largely an improvement on its predecessor in every way, packing a 5″ Super LCD3 (Rubber Matting) display that ‘s protected by Corning Gorilla Glass3 and packs 1080px x 1920px resolution.Playground Mats