A "deeply funny new collection of booger-flecked nonfiction"--Time Out New York

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"His stories are, as the title suggests, inappropriate, and they often engender squeamishness, discomfort, and laughter. But they are fresh and, at times, touching, qualities that make this an enjoyable read."--Library Journal

"One of the year's funniest books."--Largehearted Boy

Whoopee cushion coupon. When you buy a copy of the book and send this coupon, along with the book, to Daniel Nester's home, he will send you an official How to Be Inappropriate whoopee cushion. That's right: inflate one of these puppies and let the faux farts fly! While supplies last. [PDF]




Shelf talker.
You know those pieces of paper that stick out of bookstore shelves that touts a title of note? They're called shelf-talkers, and here at Inappropriate Headquarters, we have made some for your own shelf-talking pleasure. print it out, and place it under copies of How to Be Inappropriate at your local bookstore. Or print one out and place one on your own bookshelf! Alternatively, you can use this as a bookmark or to flag down authorities at a roadside accident. [PDF]

 

Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Scanned images from Bananas magazine.


You win these in a contest. Somebody put these in sleeves!


I think the joke is that the girl can't figure out how to blowdry her hair.





I think those last two speak for themselves.

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Scanned images from Bananas magazine.


That's from a poster.


[Insert caption funny to a 12-year-old here.]


I think this panel speaks for itself.


Is that Bruno Kirby on the left?

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Friday, March 20, 2009
Three Wordle clouds from How to Be Inappropriate.



I assume y'all have gotten hip to Wordle, the word cloud-generating website that is way fun.

How it works: Put in a document or a website, something with text, and the size of a word in the visualization is proportional to the number of times the word appears in the input text.

So I inputted the complete (yes, complete--I just handed it in to Soft Skull Press the other day) manuscript of How to Be Inappropriate, and here are the results.

You can see common words like "like," "first," and "time." Then you can see "Gross" and "Simmons," since there is a piece on the Terry Gross-Gene Simmons Fresh Air interview from a few years back. "Fart" and "mooning" makes appearances, since there's lots of farts and moonings in the book. "Penis," well, that's self-explanatory. There are self-referential mentions of an "Author," since this is, after all, a very experimental and post-modern text. And the book's namesake, "Inappropriate," gets into the mix in a sizable way, since there are several mentions of the various incarnations of things inappropriate.



I like how you can format the fonts and the colors. Genius. This is what the web was invented for. That, and image searches of mustaches on bananas in springtime.

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