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#150: Christian Lander at BookPeople [Reading Preview]
It describes itself as a "scientific approach to highlight and explain stuff white people like." One commenter calls its author "the textbook definition of a racist white American," and you probably don't even have to keep reading to know that we're talking about the blog Stuff White People Like because you read it back in 2008 and yeah, it's still around, 77,000,000 hits and counting. Appearing at BookPeople tomorrow night to promote his blog-inspired book "Whiter Shades of Pale: The Stuff White People Like, Coast to Coast, from Seattle's Sweaters to Maine's Microbrews", author Christian Lander might even dissect his infamous list and provide insight into how he deals with the love and hate he receives from all around the globe.
At a glance, the blog is just a list-mocking, if you will-the cultural tendencies of light skinned humans. But a closer look at the subject, the comments (which often are upwards of 700) and the articles written about Landers' blog illustrate just how temperamental the discussion of white peoples taste is. Whether you laugh at, despise, or quite possibly identify with the stuffs, Lander and SWPL are a reminder that sometimes boredom has a serious face but more realistically just acknowledge that through the internet, all things are possible.
