Blurb Market, or Damn, Somebody Already Stole My Business Idea

Yesterday's The New York Times reports that someone has already started up a business selling blurbs.

Just a week ago I proposed this very idea to one of my partners here on this blog. I'm really upset: I thought I'd finally figured out how to Get Rich Quick and show how the world really does owe me a living.

But my idea was more sophisticated, and geared especially to poets, using the best of the ubiquitous logrolling blurb phrases, like "the best of his/her generation."

And customers were going to be able to mix and match to choose the very best in vague cliches.

Maybe it's still viable. Hmm.

Why I Too Dislike It

..because it's poetry and because poetry is exceedingly dislike-able. Ask yourself, when were you last charmed enough by a poem to read every single word and read it twice?