Patrick "Bad News" Hughes has a book out now which amounts to a more portable version of his blog that you can leave unlimited comments on with a ballpoint pen. In other words, I love it.
Hughes is best known for humorous, sometimes vulgar first-person essays on everyday indignities suffered in life, and that's what you find here. "Whimsical stories of soul-melting shame."
The "key phrases" Amazon associates with this book should give you a better idea of the flavor: "poo water, ass blood, saltwater catfish, florida, skinhead katrina, Burger King, Four Horsemen, Downs Syndrome, Bob Seger." There's also a passage in here about a guy who set his dick on fire at Sean Bonner's wedding, many years before Jackass.
Link. The book cover is so awesome. Let's hope he doesn't get in Jill Greenbergian hot water over the baby torture photo at the top of this post. (thx Sean!)
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Reader comment: dr.hypercube says,
I've been a Bad News fan for a while – a few days ago I was looking at some bad album covers (Link, via), saw an awful mustache and was inspired to set up a Chile D. mustache Flickr group.
From Uncle Patrick's advice to Children: "Burt Reynolds? Nope. Tom Selleck? Uh uh. Try Chile D. Molester. Shave that fucking mustache." Just a few participants so far, but i know there are some great molestaches out there.
