Please welcome our guestbloggers for the next two weeks, the writing team of McLaren and Torchinsky!
I'm Jason Torchinsky, and I'm delighted to be guestblogging for the next two weeks with my writing partner Carrie McLaren. Carrie and I are co-editors of Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture. The book is an irreverent collection of new and previously published work from Stay Free!, the sadly defunct magazine Carrie founded. We're very proud of how it turned out, and we hope all of you in the Boing Boing-reading world will like it, too.
Carrie and I will be blogging about some of the infuriating, funny, gut-wrenching, and mildly interesting aspects of consumer culture, advertising, and its effect on our lives and minds. I'll also be doing lots of blogging on space travel, technological dead ends, dogs, robots, and the usual palette of dorky interests that make the web such a hit with the kids. I'm pretty sure Carrie will also be doing lots of blogging about apes and monkeys, too. She loves primates.
To give a bit more background on us, Carrie lives in Brooklyn with a husband and baby, and runs the great Adult Education lecture series in Brooklyn. I live in Los Angeles with an unofficial wife and a bunch of animals, and I write for the Onion News Network, and once made a giant Atari joystick.
