Good Advice for Young Trendy People of All Ages

by Jennifer Blowdryer (Editor)

Handy advice on how to survive, thrive, and be spectacular. These experiential, very real commentaries from today’s underground luminaries offer honest and humorous advice on everything from “Door Etiquette for the Nightlife-Challenged” by Clint Catalyst to “How to be an Art Star” by downtown New York City scenester Reverend Jen.

Genres: Nonfiction

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Larry-bob Roberts]

I often find myself quoting from her insights, particuarly about totally visual people, a category which had always bugged me, until Jennifer explained what their deal is.

[Hiya Swanhuyser]

This is one of the funniest books I've ever read. Many writers, with many voices, yet all tuned to a unified frequency: to provide pure crystal inspiration to be queer, be weird, be creative, and love yourself. The advice is real: "Always put the year on flyers for shows, gigs, and parties. You may be young yet, but believe me, you will host, appear in, and emcese more events than you ever thought possible, and when looking through your cute storage box many years later, you'll have no idea when you did what." The James St. James piece "The Art of Working a Room" is deathless, as are Lynee's Skool for Boyz and Sherilyn's Skool for Girlz. The world needs more Alvin Orloff types; How and Why to Be a Trendy Flunky is absolutely not geared for the 2019 world, which is the pressing reason to read it now.

[Sarah]

oh. my. god. pretentious party monsteresque bullshit. if this were written and published during the club kid era, it might work. but the trendy young people today are hipsters with trust funds, or at least the illusion of a trust fund. they're not the counter culture reflected here. and the book promoted not having a job and living off of ssi. and that fucking pisses me off. it's fucking burnt out club kids like this who are making a mockery of the system. reading this book made me stabby.

[Alvin]

Jennifer Blowdryer is one of the funniest ladies you will ever encounter. Her stream of consciousness ramblings and idiosyncratic reasoning process are comic gold. The other contributors are good too (except my piece, which is horrible). I'd only take about a third of the advice, though, unless you're trying to really screw up your life.

[Oswald]

I actually know some people who can benefit from this book! I, on the other hand, don't need to. LOL

[Bridget]

Waste of ink and acid free paper. Just trite silly vanity publishing.

[Johanna]

FABULOUS book by my friend, Jennifer Blowdryer!!!