![]() The book is written in smart-ass wise-guy (and I do mean guy) dude talk it’s best appreciated a few bits at a time. The result was the creation of the devastatingly funny “Fuck You, Penguin” – “A blog where I tell cute animals what’s what.” Flash forward to present day, where the blog gets 10-20,000 hits daily and Matthew’s blog-based book, “FU, Penguin” hit store shelves yesterday. Last October, 27-year-old Matthew Gasteier got fed up with all the cuteness of animal blogs such as ICanHasCheezburger and CuteOverload. ![]() From an interview of 8/26/09 with Gasteier: ![]() The blog from which the material in the book is derived is called, straightforwardly, Fuck You, Penguin, though the book is usually referred to by one of the titles above. Two different covers for the book, with two different avoidance schemes: A gift from my friend Ellen Evans: Matthew Gasteier’s 2009 book F**k You, Penguin: Telling Cute Animals What’s What - combining my first totem animal (the penguin), taboo vocabulary, and taboo avoidance, all in one package. ![]()
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