Who needs a unifying theme anyway?
Did you know that this guy has been around longer than that guy who twitters the shit that his septuagenarian dad says? He even had a blogger blog before switching to the hype machine that is tumblr.
But is he fending off publishers left and right? Not as far as we can tell.
Maybe Christopher Hitchens is right.
After all, if this woman is so great, why isn’t it “Stuff My Wife Says?”
Pros: No seriously, if this guy doesn’t act, we’re going to swoop right in there.
Fending off publishers? Nope. Not at all. Why not? A lot of reasons, really. One of which is that while I love keeping this blog, and there’s no doubt that she’s hilarious all of the time, there’s might not be a book in it.
I could write a book that revolved around her – say, a journal of her expat American views of things in Australia – and it would be hilarious (assuming I had an editor, natch), but it would not be Stuff My Girlfriend Says.
Another reason, I think, is some thing that I’m going to write a whiny blog entry about at some stage in the future is that SMGS is only popular in the US. It’s been linked on a bunch of sites there, and gets about 40,000 visitors a month. It hasn’t even raised a slight ripple here. I don’t think that there exists the kind of cultural engine in this country that could help propel this (or other better ideas) toward success.
I’m rambling now, but I guess I’m saying that it’s probably not misogyny that accounts for Shit My Dad Says success and SMGS’s relative obscurity. There’s a whole bunch of reasons – including the fact that people find Shit My Dad Says very funny indeed.
As to why I haven’t married her, well, I think it’s fair to keep that to ourselves. But who knows? Maybe I’ll need a Green Card some day.
