#92 Book Deals
March 26, 2008 by clander
The combination of white people and books has been a pretty solid combo for the past few hundred years. So whenever a white person is given a chance to write a book, it’s considered a pretty big deal. This is especially true when it happens to someone who started a blog that they never expected to reach more than 100 people.
Our research has slowed in recent weeks as we worked out the details, but Stuff White People Like are proud to announce that our textbook on white people is becoming a reality.
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812979916
The book will feature 2/3 all new content and is going to be released by Random House in August.
But that does not mean that the site will stop examining the stuff that white people like.
If you’d like to receive updates about the site or about the book, please sign up for the email subscription service on the right sidebar.
Also worth noting: white people like having their dreams come true when they least expected it. Thank you to every single person who has read the blog, written in, or shared it with their friends via email, IM, or personal blog.
- Christian
Can’t wait for it — congratulations, Christian!
John McCain would share your sentiment, but he is too angry at the moment.
Doh, I pooped my pants
My gay BFFs and I are thrilled to hear about the book. Not so much Ben pooping his pants. whywelovethegays.com
We’re waiting on our book deal!
http://stuffEBPlike.com
We will be at the store of white men, borders, to read your book.
We love Borders or Barnes and Nobles so much that we are dying with them in their cash flow.
Actually, I will pick up the book at the other white people store - Target. White people love that place.
Actualy both of you guys are waaayyyy off.
White People love independent bookstores and will go to great lengths (that’s about 2.5 miles in their Pruis/1997 Volvos) to avoid shopping at chain bookstores (even though they do end up buying most of their stuff from there.)
Hey Lander, good blog.
BTW, you have anti-doppelganger blogger there. Lives in Houston, TX, likes
-chain stores
http://the-last-shall-be-first.blogspot.com/2008/01/books.html
-beef,
http://the-last-shall-be-first.blogspot.com/2007/11/good-steak.html
-football (probably hates soccer),
http://the-last-shall-be-first.blogspot.com/2007/12/oh-how-strange-instant-replay-is.html
-commercial-grade industrial chocolates
http://the-last-shall-be-first.blogspot.com/2007/11/fifth-avenue.html
-Corporate America paraphenelia (expensive ties and dress shoes)
http://the-last-shall-be-first.blogspot.com/2007/11/bespoke-ties.html
http://the-last-shall-be-first.blogspot.com/2007/12/seven-fold-ties.html
-artificial christmas trees
http://the-last-shall-be-first.blogspot.com/2007/12/on-superiority-of-artificial-christmas.html
-war in general, and the Marines in particular
http://the-last-shall-be-first.blogspot.com/2007/12/semper-fi.html
You’ll probably be waiting for a while. White people always get book deals for stuff like this.
serious! big ups on the book deal!
i just got my deal the other day.
Congratulations! Looking forward to it!
I totally love you blog! It is by far one of the greatest and most HA larious things I have ever wasted my time doing! I have figured out a system in reading so that I can space it out during the work week (that I of course spend in a cubical)! Oh man I hate big corperations and daily I think about how much I wish I was wearing my 10 year old disgustingly cool Converse T!!! Thank you for you humor and also a big thank you to everyone who doesn’t get this blog you are effing hilarious! While I ‘m thanking people thank you also to the people who DO get this blog but waste their time writting to the people who don’t you are also almost equally as funny as the confused people!!! The blogging is done with a great insight, humor and awesome writting, but the site as whole would not be as great without all the comments!
I love all of you people with every coperation hating, coffee drinking, t-shirt wearing, Arrested Development watching, Wrigley loving, dog adoring bone in my white body!!!!
ps. can’t wait for the book congrats!!
-haley
spell much?
white people like being literate.
haley do I know you? are we in the same sort of cubicle hell? i agree with all your words where is your blog?
Anybody could make a list like this but the explanations are one of the funniest things I’ve seen in ages. Well done! I’m buying the book.
Pure win…..
http://claysol13.wordpress.com/
Congratulations and you are welcome (for reading the blog and passing along to my friends). Hope the book is out in time for Christmas presents.
congrats.
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
http://www.damninteresting.com.
I can use advertising tactics to further advance causes I like through websites! That’s neat! I noticed odd comments, and figure I’d join in!
Congratulations. I still don’t understand why people get offended by your blog (and now most likely your book). Maybe the truth hurts? But damn, your writing humor is so dry and usually, sadly, true. I laugh out loud every time I visit your blog.
you rock!!!
Speaking of stuff white people like, I clicked over to see the info on the upcoming book and what do I see?
Readers who browsed your listing also browsed…
Cracking the GRE.
Of course. White people like to go to grad school…or at least get in and look down on others who didn’t…
My gay BFFs and I CANNOT wait for the audio version of your book! We HATE reading, but we LOVE it when someone reads to us.
http://www.whywelovethegays.com
Congratulations, you lucky bastard! You deserve it!
best of luck!
Well isn’t that special.
You guys gotta check out this blog:
http://www.jtcinc.blogspot.com
it is also hilarious
OK, we get it… you’re phishing for visits to your blog….
“Stuff white people like appears to include “blindly clicking on links”.”
Didn’t get enough blind clicks with the first link?
I checked out this blog:
http://www.jtcinc.blogspot.com
It was hilarious. Especially the part about how the number of hits increased when posting your url in comments for “Stuff White People Like” (including “blindly clicking on links”).
Let try this, too. Check out this blog:
http://davidrodriguez.us
It’s okay, just okay.
Congratulations! I had a feeling a book deal was on its way when I first read this blog.
Make sure the book is printed on recycled paper and uses non-toxic ink. And for God’s sake don’t sell it in Walmart!
I hope it’s printed on recycled paper.
Congratulations!
http://www.IGotUGGs.dot.com
http://www.BehindtheApprovalMatrix.dot.com
Nothing like a good deal on a book.
http://www.jonesview.wordpress.com
Congratulations! Well done!
http://stuffwhiteparentslike.wordpress.com
Congratulations on the book deal. I finally know what the C in clander stands for!
I heard about your book deal yesterday the same way I heard about your terrific website — from a friend! Excellent job.
Congratulations!
Congratulations! Well done!
http://stuffwhiteparentslike.com
hilarious… I wonder if anyone will actually use this in universities… sign me up for that class!
No, you idiot. The book, like the website, is humorous.
So what if it’s humorous? Profs have been known to use Jon Stewart’s America (The Book) in classes.
thats because professors are liberal brainwashing machines.
Yeah, profs at crap schools.
It’ll be banned soon. Check out http://detentionslip.org for all the other dumb stuff that happens in public schools.
I know they would want to use it in some class at Swarthmore…or at least in an extra-curricular study group.
Thanks, Christian, for your hilarious candor. I’m glad someone is finally unpacking the knapsack of white privilege in a funny way, in the public eye!
Respect,
Liza
anyone who uses the term ‘white privilege’ is an anti-White racist.
Pay attention the next time you hear it, and take a good look at the person using it.
Haters.
why don’t you just pee your pants and quiet down.
white privilege? what would happen if someone created a blog called “stuff black people like”? all the black supremacists would be freakin out about that, i mean, what’s up with the double standard in society
Congrats!
White people like CLEANING UP BEFORE THE MAID!!!
Guilty! My housekeeper only comes once a month but I always rush to clean up the house before she gets here.
Congrats Christian!
Do you think it’s clean, Tina? - Joan Crawford
Suze, when you write (re: your housekeeper) “I always rush to clean up the house before she gets here”, allow me to let you in on a secret tactic that other white people are adopting.
Get a housekeeper for the housekeeper. I now have a very nice Ethiopian girl come in twice a week to clean the house before my regular housekeeper (an excellent older Gautemalan lady) comes in for the full house-cleaning.
Now I get to enjoy a house that is always either (a) clean, or (b) clean enough to be ready-to-clean.
That’s how I would recommend you do it.
Sell outs! Some things just don’t work as a book and it ruins the charm of the original.
Go Fug Yourself was a horror as a book.
http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/gfy_book/
yeah, selling out = making money for stuff you did for fun anyway.
only a complete tosser would crap on someone who just hit it big, way to hypocrite it up!!!
are you into marketing?
and very, very white
White people love pissing on somebody else’s parade. Nice job, asswipe.
F U
This little prick in the picture is not the definition of “White”. Far from it. Look at the photo again. he’s a jewified weasel.
Henry Blanco is NOT the right type of white person.
i believe he would have fit in well in 1940’s germany.
Henry Blanco is White!
Look, you are either with Mel Gibson and Whites, or you’re with jews. If you hate Mel, you are the wrong kind of white person, and perhaps no longer White at all.
You know who is also the wrong kind of White person? Al Gore. His two daughters married non-Whites, one to a jew, the other to an Asian.
If something like that happens, how can you still call yourself “White”? These are the wrong kind of White people, they are no longer even White!!
And Dick Cheney’s daughter’s a homo. White cred’s getting harder to hold on to. She just needs a good Aryan to show her the way.
Henry,
you are way too low-brow for this website. this blog is meant to poke fun at ourselves in an enlightened fashion. you are clearly many evolutionary steps away from being able to participate. go burn a flag or something.
p.s. - who helped you turn on the computer?
Rabbit Girl is right - white people love selling out. Way to give yourself #92 and #93
Do you really have to be so jealous? It is so lame when people hate on others because they are jealous…
Wow! Congratulations! I’m really excited for you! You are a talented writer and this blog is always sharp, witty and well writter. You deserve all the success that is coming your way. Peace.
congrats, i guess 17 million hits in 3 months is good for something. remember us po white fokes when you are sitting on a golden toilet seat, dookin it up….
Bummer….I always liked to pretend that this blog was written by an Asian person. But it’s cool, I still purchased 2 copies.
Good for you, white person!
You’re a pioneer. Nobody’s parodied the “right kind of white people” before, and they’ve felt untouchable for too long. I’ll be first in line for the book. Bravo!!!!!
Nobody’s parodied the “right kind of white people” before
don’t you mean judaized white people? weasel white people?
androgynous white people?
And gingers!
har har
Congratulations, Christian!
Congrats Clander, you lucky bastard
I will look forward to the 2/3 new content when I eventually buy the book. I loved the humor of the site and I hope your book is a best seller in stores. Good luck!!!
*Damn it - I totally clean up a little before the maid comes. I makes me all twitchy thinking of some stranger coming into my apartment with my crap all over the place. Nice peg Mr. Whitey.
How about writing a post on selling out? White people love selling out. From Green Day to Maddox to the stuffwhitepeoplelike blog, a white person will gladly sell out to the man for a couple bucks.
Not saying I wouldn’t, being white and all, but seriously, it merits mention.