One piece in the book is about “beauty profiles.” No one is going to ask me about my, like, creams, so how can convey to other people who might feel the same way how ridiculous it is without making any enemies - I don’t want the Glossier lady to be like, “bitch, I saw what you said”.
The other thing is if I’m thinking about an idea a lot. If I know it’s worth getting on the phone with somebody the next day about, that’s in for sure. After a few days, I was like, “That shit is fucking funny.” Boom, that goes in. In the essay “Are You Familiar With My Work?” I actually asked a human being to his face if he knew who I was. If it is so humiliating I can’t stop thinking about it. It’s called “Wow, No Thank You,” so it’s about everything I don’t like, but in a way that’s funny this time. It would have felt less authentic to try wringing some deep emotion or, dare I say, meaning out of a low point.
Bad things happen all the time, but not everything is worth documenting, which I feel like I have learned at this stage. It’s just the next stupid-ass thing that will make you laugh. There’s no page you turn and a horrible thing awaits. Life is so hard and bad - if I can be a person who’s like, “Okay, but look at this meme,” then that’s what I want to do and what I wanted this book to be. I thought, why not put something out that really tries to make people laugh? In my blog and newsletter, I want to be the 10 minutes of sunshine you get in a day or the 10 minutes of pointing out the absurdity of the other minutes in the day, so it was a concerted effort to make this one funny. In general I can tend toward pessimism, but there was none of that in my own life to mine at the moment. At least it’s not a scary book that’s a bummer, so I can be like, “Hey, if you need a laugh, here’s this thing I made!” When I decided to write another book, I went into it thinking, okay, I have beat both of the dead parent drums and I’m done with that. It feels frivolous to even talk about a book coming out.
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