Guestbloggers: Carrie McLaren and Jason Torchinsky

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.

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#1 posted by Jay Acker, July 19, 2009 11:51 PM

My initial response was "meh", that is until I saw the giant joystick and well, "welcome aboard".

#2 posted by StRevAlex, July 19, 2009 11:55 PM

My initial response was "Awesome" I loved "Stay Free!" It was one of the most consistently interesting magazines of its kind.

#3 posted by Anonymous, July 20, 2009 12:42 AM

my initial response was "Hey I was in a car race with that guy!"

#4 posted by huntsu, July 20, 2009 4:43 AM

I love the new guestbloggers. On a formatting note, however, could each of their posts END with the description of the guestblogger instead of start with it? I find it distracting to have the "Johnny X is a guestblogger ..." italics at the start of every post they make. Putting it at the end accomplished the goal without distracting from the post.