The New York Times recently wrote about a book deal given to the writer of the blog Stuff White People Like. It's a funny site, and while NPR earnestly debated whether it's racist or satire, it's clearly enough of the latter to be palatable. It might not be all that accurate -- I'm so white that some people have called me "see-through," but there are only a handful of things on the site that I really like: for instance, The Wire and Netflix. But it's entertaining.

Blogs have been turning into books for enough years that it's not a huge story, except for the fact that the advance is rumored to be $300,000. Just so you know, Loud, Please is happy to discuss book contracts starting at the rock-bottom price of a hundred grand.