Boob - A Collection of Stories and Other Nonsense From Big Brother Magazine
Dave Carnie is one of the only people to succeed at writing about the act of skateboarding or the act of not skateboarding. Carnies prolific, often drug-fueled work for Big Brother was not only groundbreaking, but hilarious. --Davoud Kermaninejad, Concussion MagazineYou know those guys who are really smart but pretend to be stupid but then when you look at what they are doing and saying it becomes obvious that they were smart all along and it was you who was stupid for not seeing it? No? Me either. But that s what makes Dave Carnie so interesting- he is that guy. Anybody who followed the legendary antics of the Big Brother empire, both in print and via video, will need no introduction to it s key rvingleader. Buried deep in the tom-foolery of the adult diaper experiments, his published obsession with his cat Gary, and certainly the Me Skateboard saga, were these artistic gems that oscillated wildly (you like that, Dave?) between elementary school bathroom humor and profound, philosophically advanced insights into the human condition. Quite alluring, really. Despite the fact that magazine ceased publishing many moons past, the legacy lives on, and Dave has recently done us the service of collecting a huge portfolio of his written work from the magazine and publishing it in book form: behold Boob, Carnie s epic tome culled from the depths of his salad days at BB. --Mark Whitely, Slap Magazine