Passive Aggressive Notes: Painfully Polite and Hilariously Hostile Writings - Softcover

Miller, Kerry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061630594 ISBN 13: 9780061630590

Publisher: Collins, 2008

Synopsis

Part voyeuristic entertainment, part group therapy, Passive Aggressive Notes offers a fascinating look at the all-too-familiar frustrations of embattled office drones, apartment dwellers, parents, and pet owners everywhere.

This curated collection combines dozens of outrageous, never-before-seen notes as well as favorites from Passiveaggressivenotes.coma 2008 Webby Award Winner and the official "Best Blog" of the South by Southwest Interactive festival.

About this title

Review:

"From what I've seen this book is very, very funy and very charming. But you never know?"--Eugene Mirman, comedian

"Never before have the peculiarities of modern communication been laid so bare. Kerry Miller's Passive Aggressive Notes is a deliriously funny collection."--Davy Rothbart, creator of Found magazine and author of The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas

"We dare you not to laugh out loud."--Redbook Magazine

From the Author:

It all began with a first date...and not a particularly good date, either. Apparently, things between this guy and his roommate had gotten so bad that they now communicated almost exclusively via Post-it note. Ah, yes, I said, I know those notes well--my current apartment (where I lived with three other flatmates) had seen its share, most of them about the presence of unwashed dishes in the sink. They were usually signed with love; they were never addressed directly. I should start collecting them, I joked--put them on the Internet or something. Now that would be passive-aggressive.

Later that night--after it became clear that our relationship wasn't going to progress beyond standard small talk--I decided to do just that. And unlike my apartment's approach to dish-washing, the response to passiveaggressivenotes.com was enthusiastic, immediate, and overwhelming. Within weeks of the site's launch, thousands of notes poured in from shared bathrooms, kitchens, cubicles, and parking lots. (Wrote one reader: "Instead of a single note, can I submit an entire person? Like my mother?") This book represents the funniest and most outrageous of those submissions.

--Kerry Miller

About this edition

• Publisher: Collins
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061630594
• ISBN 13: 9780061630590
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176