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<p>Friday May 30 2008  Colours</p>
<p>Friday, May 30, 2008 at 3:52PM Billy Scafuri and Tim Bierbaum, creators of the webcomic The Librarianist, take you to the strange town of Colours every Friday on The Apiary.</p>
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<p>The Apiary | Post a Comment in Colours Friday May 30 2008  GIVEAWAY | You Are a Miserable Excuse For a Hero</p>
<p>Friday, May 30, 2008 at 9:48AM After chatting with Bob Powers the other day about his new book, he generously offered us TWO SIGNED COPIES of You Are a Miserable Excuse For a Hero to simply dole out to anyone with email access and a dream. Add this collector's edition to your library today!You Are a Miserable Excuse For a HeroHOW TO BE A WINNER1) Put "You Are a Miserable Excuse For a Hero" in the subject line of an email addressed to theapiary@gmail.com 2) Send that email before SUNDAY @ MIDNIGHT (6/1) 3) If you win, tell your friends via blog/MySpace/or Facebook bulletin that The Apiary made you a winner! Two people will be selected at random and notified shortly after.</p>
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<p>The Apiary | Post a Comment in Prize Buffet Friday May 30 2008  The Sting</p>
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<p>The Apiary | Post a Comment in General Interest Friday May 30 2008  The Honey Shot</p>
<p>Friday, May 30, 2008 at 5:00AM It is my humble opinion that Dr. Wimpy (John Ward) is the dean of the New York comedy scene doctors | Photo: ricksterbotRELATED"Oprah, final answer" (cameo by Risa Sang-urai)"Well, we can't INTERRUPT him"Excellent References Available Upon RequestWanna get honey shot? Send your photo(s) to keith3000@gmail.com.</p>
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<p>keithhuang | Post a Comment in Photos Thursday May 29 2008  Inside With: Bob Powers</p>
<p>Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 11:24AM Bob Powers | Photo: Lisa WhitemanBob Powers is many things to many people, but for the purposes of this Q&A, he is an example of blogging success, a writer for the Huffington Post's 23/6.com, and now, a two-time author. He follows up Happy Cruelty Day, a collection of invented holidays culled from the Web pages of Girls Are Pretty, with his new work, You Are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero--a book marketed to the robust "Failing 33-year olds" demographic. Though his writing tends to swim backstrokes through an Overcast Gray color of the comedy palette, Bob claims he has no problems accepting that people can be happy and content. Things are just much more amusing when we're not.In a 5-star review for your new book, You Are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero, Rachel Kramer Bussel raves, "Bob Powers has written a hilarious and very adult version of the classic Choose Your Own Adventure type of book... He somehow manages to cram in all kinds of current events with a general sense of generational angst and relationship drama, all while you flip around madly trying to find the best ending. Except all the endings here are kind of messed up." We have questions. One: Is it impossible to beat this book? And two: What do you have against humanity?RKB is pretty awesome isn't she? That was an Amazon review but I wish I could get it on the book jacket somehow. To answer your two-parter: If by "beat the book," you mean get a positive ending, yes it's possible. There are a few endings where you save the girl, find love, get rich, all that crap. But there are many more where you get murdered, or worse, give up your dreams and end up working at an Ecuadorian nick-nack shop or something. In one ending your life doesn't change one bit except you stop waiting tables and switch to temping. But yes, there are a few endings where everything works out, but just a few. For the second part, I have nothing against humanity. I just think humans who fail are very entertaining.Did you learn anything while writing your first book that was helpful the second time around?The first book was very different from this one, since the first was just a pile of individual stories and this one has a whole bunch of plotlines to keep up in the air. The big thing I learned, maybe, was to just keep spewing words on the paper no matter how crappy they might seem. You write fifty pages you're going to have at least a few that are okay. I guess I like book writing enough. It can be scary to spend a lot of time on something without that immediate feedback letting you know if it's any good. But when it looks like it's taking shape it's nice.By our calculations, you have over 1700 entries logged on your site Girls Are Pretty since 2002. What got you into blogging? Why didn't you quit? And what entry has garnered the most hits?I got into blogging because I had the idea for the Girls Are Pretty format of daily holidays for a while, but I had no knowledge of how to make a website. Blogging was the easiest way to do it without learning anything. I kind of did quit more recently, at least I don't do it every day like I used to. For the first three years I never missed a day, now I just do it a couple times a week. I think the thing that kept me going was when I started getting an audience. No clue what got the most hits, on its own. My biggest hits came on days when more popular blogs linked to me, but they'd usually link to the whole blog rather than a particular post. I do remember that "19 Ways To Tell A Cajun Chef To Go Fuck Himself" seemed to get a lot of links over time.We heard you work at 23/6.com. What do you do there?I write for the news section at 23/6. Started back in March. It's a good place to work. Each day, we basically just go through the headlines in the morning and then pitch our ideas for how we want to cover which stories. I usually put up a couple pieces a day.Do you still talk to Todd Levin? How's he doing? And are there any collaborations in the works?Todd is doing very well. He's getting married soon, as am I. We're not getting married to each other. We're marrying girls. No collaborations in the works presently.See Bob read from You Are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero at the official release party on June 3rd, 6:30 @ Lolita Bar.</p>
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<p>The Apiary | Post a Comment in EXCLUSIVELY at The Apiary , Interviews Thursday May 29 2008  Daily Bee-log</p>
<p>Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 10:59AM --George Saunders recommended for your summer reading list. [Dan Gurewitch] --New York City: The #1 place for confident lunatics to enjoy the feel of sunshine on their dancing bodies. [Paul Oddo] --Anthony King's pep talk allows Whorenado to refocus and get psyched. [Corey Brown] --Scott Bateman has a zillion things to do before his holiday in Eugene, Oregon. [Scott Bateman]</p>
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<p>The Apiary | Post a Comment in Daily Bee-log Thursday May 29 2008  The Honey Shot</p>
<p>Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 5:00AM Dr. Oddbody (Adam Nowak) and his strange box | Photo: Tracey B. WilsonQUOTABLE"I was born between the spring of 1939 and winter 1940 in Kingsport, southeast of Arkham, Mass. I was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Charles 'Hurly Burly' MacBrien, a merchant trader and sea captain. I spent the better part of my youth sailing the seas, traveling between exotic ports, to forbidden cities and forgotten back alleys where my father attempted selling Clark Nova typewriters door-to-door." --Dr. Oddbody"Dr. Oddbody comes from my sudden, late-in-life obsession with H. P. Lovecraft. He's a combination of Rod Serling and the Crypt Keeper after having been eaten by Marlon Brando's Dr. Moreau. Each aspect of his costume is an homage to a sci-fi/horror character: the eye patch is from a scientist on Dawn of the Dead, the sarong is from Dr. Bombay on Bewitched and Dr. Moreau and the hair is from Eraserhead." --Adam NowakWanna get honey shot? Send your photo(s) to keith3000@gmail.com.</p>
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<p>keithhuang | 2 Comments in Photos Wednesday May 28 2008  This Week on Guitar Solo - Street Carnage</p>
<p>Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 1:58PM NVW DOESN'T HAVE TO END THEREAmerican Idle - Tom McCaffrey, Roger Hailes, Greg JohnsonAmerican Idol Bios - Andree Vermeulen, Jill Donnelly, Winston Noel, Chris KellyCaptains in Space: Hairy Situation - Fed Hatoum, Matt Koff, Dan McCoyThe Message Board: Disneymoon - Giulia RozziSoce Freestyle #1 - Soce, Jessy DelfinoInappropriate Q&A at We're All Friends Here - Matt Ruby, Mark NormandO'Doul's - Olde EnglishApocalypse How: Catastrophic Careers - Rob KutnerVIDEO OF THE WEAKNewsBusted: 5/27/08 - Jodi Miller, Laugh Track, Cronies</p>
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