So let's start with some news about the book. Offically titled Poop Culture: How America is Shaped by its Grossest National Product, it is slated to hit the stores April, 2007. According to Adam, my editor at Feral House [1], the distributor will begin pimping it in the next month or two. It will be around 280 pages, a 6x9 trade paperback, and will retail for $15.95. A bargain!
Perhaps most spectacularly, the foreword is written by an actual celebrity: Paul Provenza [2], the actor and comedian who directed The Aristocrats [3]. Why him? Because his next movie is one near and dear to every PoopReporter's heart: an adaptation of the famous kids' book Everybody Poops [4].
In Journal of Ass Production news: I placed the order with the printer yesterday. As I mentioned on my stupid little MySpace blog [5], it's always terrifying to plunk down multiple hundreds of dollars, no matter what it's for. Even though I have confidence that I'll sell enough to earn back my investment -- plus a couple hundred more that I can invest back in the site and/or use to buy crack whores -- it's still a lot of money. But it's a great piece of reading -- you should buy one [6].
"Crack whores," by the way, is a pun.
In not-Dave news: Someone from SpikeTV contacted The Big Wiper with some questions about his Death of Elvis [7] article for a quiz show they're doing. Hopefully he'll get credit when the show goes on the air.
Finally: I did an interview last week with Angie's List Magazine [8], circulation 500,000 (or so they tell me). The reporter and I spent an hour talking about toilets -- about their history, about their future, and about their true purpose. This is one of the main points of the book: that the toilet was created in the 1700s and 1800s not as a tool for sanitation, but, as my research has shown, as a means for wealthy Victorians to separate themselves from the stinking masses. (I'll talk more about this in a future Captain's Log.) Anyway, I must have impressed her -- she told me they're sending out a photographer to take a picture of me for the article! She asked me for ideas as to where we might take the picture; I suggested the CBGBs bathroom [9]. We may also do me sitting on a toilet on the lawn in the middle of Central Park. Anybody have any other ideas?
