they’re called books
on wednesday i bought a copy of stephen colbert’s i am america (and so can you!). i’ve been a fan of colbert since he was reporting on the daily show, and i was tickled pink when his show picked up steam and became the giant force that it is today.
this book, besides being stupid funny, is written in a really interesting way (warning. i am a creative writing major in the publishing field, so no one may find this interesting but me). he uses footnotes and margin notes, but not to expand on ideas or to add additional suggested readings. he actually uses them to add to his point. it’s like if he was speaking to you, the margin or footnote would be where he leans forward and points his finger to emphasize. there’s also two pages of stickers in it.
i was driving around yesterday and suddenly had a realization. last year in the media theory class i took, we discussed the role of the ‘trickster’ in society nowdays. (here is the article marshall soules wrote about it which sort of explains the idea http://www.media-studies.ca/articles/trickster.htm) and i was thinking about colbert’s speech to the white house, as well as his announcement for his bid for presidency (which i’m pretty sure is just a publicity ploy for the new book) when suddenly i realized colbert IS a trickster.
it was a great moment.
