Judging A Book By Its Blog

If you've ever wondered if your blog could become a fantastically successful book, or if you've simply wondered which books that originated as blogs should be embraced and which should be avoided, I've done the proper research and have made a scholarly report on E!'s website. Here's a brief taste:

Avoid Books Based on Blogs by Formerly Cutting-Edge Filmmakers:  There was a time—we’ll call it the 1990s—when Kevin Smith was everyone’s favorite filmmaker. (By everyone, we mean the demographic that once went by Gen-X but now is referred to more commonly as the people over there in the Volvo.) Clerks was a slice of indie brilliance. Chasing Amy presaged our fascination with lesbians. Dogma made us question the very institution of religion. Then a funny thing happened. Kevin Smith’s films stopped being funny. And then, upon purchasing all of his DVDs, we found that, save for Chasing Amy, he never was funny and that we’d spent the whole of the 1990s really, really high.

Alas, Kevin Smith has continued to make movies, and they’ve continued to be an ill-favored thing, but his own. Now, based on his blog comes My Boring Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith. To be fair, Smith’s rants and raves are occasionally interesting and often scatologically funny, and his inside baseball on Hollywood is fun to read...but then there’s the other 400 pages.

Comments

[Bill Peschel]

Ouch. I've gotten partway into "Jay and Silent Bob" and learned that that's one movie I'll never, ever, see with my wife, because every 30 seconds, she'll ask "And you think THAT'S funny?"

The soundtrack rocks, tho.

[Greg]

Wil Wheaton will be glad to know he wasn't used as an example of what to avoid. :-)