Antisocial Commentary Release Party

Some may have noticed a certain guy who shows up in the Roundup on occasion. He certainly gets mentioned when I plug humor-blogs.com because he runs it and has made a nice community of people who are and who think they are funny — I’ll let you judge which category this blog belongs in.

Over the past few months of getting to know him via email and his blog posts, I’ve developed a little bit of a blog crush on him. No, it’s not sexual. You people are terrible! It’s one of those crushes where you are attracted to his T&A. Of course, I mean Talent & Autographing. If you haven’t read Mattress Police, you should. He has a great way of making the mundane funny. Or as I’ve rewritten “Candy Man” from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory:

Who take the mundane
Sprinkle it with odd
Cover it with cardboard
And be a writing god

…I never claimed to be a poet.

So here’s the deal. He is actually publishing his best posts into a book with which you can decorate your coffee table. It really brings out the weird architecture picture book, “Calvin & Hobbes” collections and sex toy catalog that are already strewn about your guest room. Plus this one you may actually read.

It’s called Antisocial Commentary: From the Secret Files of the Mattress Police and — to add peer pressure to this — all the cool kids are ordering it. It’s official release is August 15, but for a limited time you can pre-order it and he’ll, like, sign it and stuff. You should do it! I did it with Chuck Palahniuk when “Fight Club” was only a short story freshly published and I ran up to him going, “Mr. Palahniuk! Oh, Mr. Palahniuk! Can I have your autograph?” Yes, I used to hang out and work out with him on occasion when I was living in Portland. It’s my one claim to fame. Now I have the distinction of being the first person to have every asked him for his autograph simply because I was being a goofball.

Now you can be a goofball and pre-order Diesel’s book. It’s really worth it. Really. Why do I think so? Well, I’m certainly not getting paid to heap praises on him unless you count Karma points. All the real details are over at his site. I’m headed over there as soon as I hit ‘publish’ and pre-ordering mine just to prove that I’m a man of action. Huzzah, charge and whatnot!