But then again they are absolutely right:
Based on Keaggy’s website, GroceryLists.org, the book is viewable online and is absolutely a must-see for anyone interested in found items, mild voyeurism, and the human condition.
Been a bit busy and haven’t blogged the blog mentions, so let’s do another gang roundup:
Sweatervestboy calls the intro story, “Amazing.”
Dana Graves at The Collecting Gene says, “I don’t know why THIS collection is so interesting…”
Michelle says, “fabulous, very funny“
Whippleworld says, “This is brilliant“
One Girl Revolution says, “This one is FUNNY!“
Sarah Cool says, “I was [...]
I was on vacation when this got posted, but the awesome mental_floss magazine is giving away a copy of my book Milk Eggs Vodka as part of the Harry Potter madness. It’s probably too late to enter now, but hey, they called the book “hilarious,” so I’m happy.
…John! John typed in “Oh the mundanity,” hit “Publish” and quickly won my potentially everlasting admiration.
Been mighty busy for the last week. I’ve been neglecting most of my sites and I really need to step it up as Guest Editor over at Coudal Partners. Anyway, here’s a quick recap of some recent “Milk Eggs Vodka” blog mentions:
“I love Milk Eggs Vodka” —Gold & Silver Stars
“Yesterday a friend who knows my [...]
Cool, here’s a post about the lists and the book from the folks at Organic:
I recently discovered grocerylists.org, an ecclectic collection by Bill Keaggy… Keaggy recently published a book entitled “Milk Eggs Vodka” where he reprinted several hundred grocery lists in their crumpled, stained and misspelled glory (featured in AdAge)… As intrepid students of human [...]
The Good: Jen Bekman — someone who I have much respect for — says, “Milk Eggs Vodka is an enjoyable book, well-designed” and calls it “particularly cool.” Thanks, Jen!
The Bad: Uncool Kids thinks Found Magazine was around before The Grocery List Collection. Oh well. “How publishers were giving away grocery bags that promoted Bill Keaggy’s [...]
Hey, my book may be kinda funny, but it also could make you think…
I went grocery shopping today, somewhere between talking to my mom on the phone and chasing my dog at the dog park. This isn’t spectacular. People do this every day. I do this at least twice a week. No big deal.
But, I [...]
From Mike Crowl’s Roving Report:
By chance I came across an article today on odd online museums. I guess the Internet is a place where people will try out anything, and here’s one that’s really oddball. It actually manages to turn something mundane into a kind of art work — a ‘found’ art work, in fact [...]
An excerpt from over at Journal to a Muse:
Anyway, Milk, Eggs, Vodka is one of the things I bestowed upon my DD for her birthday. It is a book that has photographs (and some comments) about found grocery lists. It is humor, psychology, social anthropology and philosophy all combined… Many of the ones in the [...]
Scroll down for this short, but perfect, quickie about MEV:
When making your list for your next trip to the bookstore, put MILK EGGS VODKA: GROCERY LISTS LOST AND FOUND at the very top. An extension of Bill Keaggy’s website on the same subject, the book presents page after page of people’s discarded lists. Aside from [...]
I saw [Milk Eggs Vodka] in Borders yesterday and nearly choked. Well, not choked. I certainly did a double-take. This is a specialized version of the “Found” phenomenon.
Anyway, William Cohen sees poetry in some of the lists he’s found. Check it out.
A couple months ago I did an email interview with Marty Weil of Ephemera, a site that explores the world of old paper:
Bill Keaggy is a collector, maker, and breaker of things. He is the author of the soon-to-be release Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and Found. Recently, I spoke to Bill about grocery [...]
So says Nik:
Voyeurism rocks. Check out these often-humorous discarded grocery lists.
At Coudal Partners (two of the good folks there helped out with the book).
“I’m lovin’ it” (on Flickr).
“One of the great web originals” at Quipsologies (see #8).
I guess I’d feel bad about a negative mention — but only if this fellow’s humor column was, um, actually funny: Boring books leave a bad taste.
But hey, the [...]
