A review by me_haugen
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, by Gretchen McCulloch

5.0

Read this during the one event I covered as a sports reporter. I get that like any job, you've got to pay your dues in sports journalism. You might not get to cover the biggest events or the ones you most want to do right at that start. So, you can imagine my surprise when my boss, Jeremy Ironlung -- his family didn't invent the iron lung if you were wondering, I ask. I guess his ancestors used to blow sailboats out to sea when the wind was bad in the harbor and that's why he's called that. -- anyway, my boss, Jeremey Ironlung asked me to be the lead reporter for the X games. And like I said I was pretty surprised. I'd been an extreme sports aficionado ever since my dad built a halfpipe in our backyard. Of course, he wouldn't share his skateboards or anything so all we could do was slide down it, and we got a lot of splinters and belly-burns but it was still pretty fun. It turned out it wasn't the X games though it was the XYZ games where people just see how they can stand there without their fly coming open and the only rule was they couldn't touch the zipper. It was pretty boring so I quit being a sports reporter after that. This book was good.