Wednesday, January 7, 2009

I has the finest bucket in the land


Ari Brouillette is getting famous today on the Curated Internet for his Amazon review of The Secret, but I'm partial to his assessment of the Dover Parkersburg 610.
Posted by Mr. Pony
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14 comments:

Fugu said...

Thanks, Pony. I'm grateful that this lead me to his insightful review of The 2007-2012 Outlook for Public Building Stacking Chairs Excluding Bar, Bowling Center, Cafeteria, Library, Restaurant, and School Stacking Chairs in India, by Philip M. Parker.

At $495, this is a steal.

January 7, 2009 at 11:56 PM
Fugu said...

Ladies and gentlemen, Philip M. Parker.

January 7, 2009 at 11:59 PM
Mr. Pony said...

Wow! I don't know why, but this Mr. Parker strikes me as slightly irresponsible.

January 8, 2009 at 12:26 AM
Litcube said...

That guy is serious my current hero.

January 8, 2009 at 11:56 AM
odori said...

Love it.

January 8, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Lungclops said...

here's how mr. parker makes the impossible... possible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkS5PkHQphY

January 11, 2009 at 6:18 AM
Galspanic said...

I have watched several of these videos now and can conclude that I find myself in vehement agreemence with Mr. Pony.

January 11, 2009 at 1:51 PM
Galspanic said...

Seriously. It's like watching Skynet be born, only instead of a tyrannical A.I. bent on genocide, it's a kinda crappy, boring, cheaply rendered A.I. bent on genocide.

January 11, 2009 at 1:54 PM
odori said...

Mr. Parker's book writing abilities freaked me out at first. But if you think about it, who is going to read a book "written" this way? The influence of these texts would be close to nothing, no?

January 11, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Galspanic said...

I'm not worried about who's reading it. I'm worried about the programming that's going onto making these books.

January 11, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Fugu said...

"He plans to extend the programs to produce romance novels."

I think you've got your target audience right there. And I bet he can compete with reality TV or soap operas or Scooby Doo cartoons without much extra work. Just get George Lucas to do the producing and sell it to FOX and it's a match made in heaven. :P

January 11, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Lungclops said...

if you've lied your way into a marketing type job, and mr. cogswell asks for the lambert report by friday, you could give him one of parker's reports. you could probably get away with it for years.

January 12, 2009 at 6:28 AM
Mr. Pony said...

I love how he refers to "the computer" doing things on its own, without any implied programming. Reminds me of the way folks personify "the computer" in '70s TV.

January 12, 2009 at 10:57 AM
Mr. Pony said...

Based on his video title, the economics of his books are based on the principle of the Long Tail, where esoteric content has a higher value to a smaller number of people (or one person).

I think one of my ideal Parker Books might be The 2007-2012 Outlook for Mainstream Superhero Comic Company-wide Crossover Events Excluding Tier-3 or lower Bat/Mutant Books and Future Teenage Super-cop Books.

January 12, 2009 at 11:06 AM

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