Day 248: I Demand That You Buy This Book

You really should buy this book. In it there are one hundred posts from one hundred bloggers collected, edited, collated and made into a book in ONLY SEVEN DAYS by the simply extraordinary (and quite attractive, despite being on a different bus to me) Mike Atkinson.








Reasons you should buy it:

1. I am in it, as are 99 other people
2. It has an attractive front cover drawn by Lucy Pepper
3. It is funny
4. It contains swearing
5. It is for charity.*

As my 'sales pitch' has been so convincing, I am sure you will need very little encouragement to click here and buy it in bulk.

Pip pip!



* Despite the fact that charities are usually good, they embarrass me a bit. The charity that will benefit from Shaggy Blog Stories is Comic Relief, the third most embarrassing charity in Britain (in at No. 1: Band Aid. No. 2: Royal Variety Club).

Foreign readers may be interested to know that Red Nose Day (which is today) is a day of fundraising for Comic Relief. On Red Nose Day, unfunny people (e.g. politicians) try and be funny (the word "skit" is usually used, and a comedy song performed), and funny people (e.g. professional comedians) try and be sincere (usually by squinting and not wearing make-up in Africa). All of this colludes to make me feel very hot and slightly sick.

However, the money does good things, I am neither Stephen Fry nor Claire Short, and I am on the whole a self-obsessed twat. So I've bought five copies and think you should do the same. (Failing that, go here and give them some money. Don't be put off by Lenny Henry. He means well.)