No one is acknowledging John Updike’s influence on Justin Bieber’s style, and it just makes me SO MAD.
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Ha! I thought that was Joe Namath on the left.
Uh oh, you’re giving me ideas.
Fabulous.
I JUST DIED LAUGHING
On a similar note, the literary canon should be ashamed of itself for overlooking that classic gem of Americana, “Run, Baby, Run.”
Oh, now that is a funny observation.
Oh my! I think you might be onto something here! Didn’t Bieber get discovered at almost the exact same time that Updike died? Perhaps Updike bestowed his style, influence and art upon Bieber—his parting wish, if you will. (Oh, Bieber, you’re so doing it wrong!)
Bieber is the modern-day Sammy! What a long way he’s come from the A&P.
Actually, maybe they’re the same person. Updike isn’t dead after all. He’s alive and well and decided to give up all that lame writing bullshit and head for The Maple Leaf State to sing and dance!
I’m sensing some sort of horrible ‘Picture of Dorian Grey’ mischeif at work here. Maybe Beiber was a humunculous that John Updike created in a stab at (non-literary) immortality, and now he’s gotten loose to terrorize an unsuspecting populace.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/verhext/4622737893/
Let’s see Bieber sit pensively on the shore everyday for 26 days and write one song for each letter of the alphabet. Then all he’s got to do is develop a suspicious disrespect of women and he’ll be on his way.
oh how I heart you Ms. Fussy. xoxo
I too thought that was Joe Namath and I want to know what he’s holding. From here it looks like an upside down toad.
Lord, I hope you didn’t tweet that. You’ll have millions of teenage girls hating you for reasons they cannot quite explain. RANDOM TEENAGE GIRL ANGER!!!
Here here! There is nothing new under the sun
What is it about that hair? The other day my husband combed my sons hair and it looked like the Bieber style, and I can assure you neither of them have any idea who he is or what his hair looks like.
Ha! Excellent.
It’s funny ’cause it’s true. And really now, what IS Updike cupping in his hand?
… Updike ‘dies,’ Bieber ‘appears,’ almost simultaneously. And you people think this is a *coincidence*?!?!?
I like to call that Ted Koppel™ hair. Or the 70s remix hair.
1. this is really funny, and 2. John Updike is wearing my favourite grey sweater! Found it!
Justin Bieber’s face is so punchable. I am amazed it has any features left.
I never noticed the startling similarities. I blame the fact that Updike’s nose always steered me away from all other parts of his body.
We had our 7-year-old son’s hair like this all summer… to save money on a hair-cut.
You are funny!
Color me bummed that there’s no “Lesbians Who Look Like John Updike” website.
http://lesbianswholooklikejustinbieber.tumblr.com/
Chere Madame Kennedy,
We are sorry, but this is too funny for the internet. Your funny quota is now officially expired for the year.
WORD.
Hahaha, that is FANTASTIC.
Did you read Slate today? Because they totally stole your idea (it’s at the bottom of this seemingly unrelated examination of punctuation in Woody Allen’s movie titles): http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/browbeat/archive/2010/10/14/copy-editing-the-culture-the-rise-and-fall-of-woody-allen-as-experienced-through-his-punctuation.aspx
HA!