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Dril Official "Mr. Ten Years" Anniversary Collection
DRIVEN UM WILD SINCE 2008 WHAT'S IN THE BOOK?? - OVER 70 ORIGINAL ART WORK - OVER 1500 OF GOOD POSTS (TEN YEARS OF CONTENT) - TRUTH WITH OUT THE FILTER "THAT'S WHAT I CALL MONEY IN THE BANK" - WINT.CO "ACCESS ON DEMAND"
420 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 21, 2018
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Dril
9 books27 followersDril, a pseudonymous Twitter user known for his absurdist humor. The book is the author's compilation of the account's best tweets from its first ten years, alongside new original illustrations. The tweets are sorted into sections by topic. The book was self-published in paperback and ebook formats. According to the preface, dril published the book in print so that his tweets would survive a future societal collapse and digital dark age.
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January 2, 2019
A stunning, pitch-dark descent into the schizophrenic mind of the collective Internet, and by extension, the world. All previously published as tweets in the author's pseudonymous @dril account, these aphorisms and mini-dramas contain some of the sharpest, densest examples of modern writing. They both reflect and have deeply influenced the nature of social media. Here's an example:
"another day volunteering at the betsy ross museum. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the flag. buddy, they wont even let me fuck it"
Note the triple twist - a mildly absurd premise, a shocking turn, and then a landing that takes it further, gives a new context, and the biggest laugh. This is Twitter at its best, embodying aspects of stand-up, poetry, and cultural criticism within a psuedo-narrative context. In these 420 pages we have one of the best recent works of literature (I would classify it as experimental fiction) - hugely influential, ironic but always with the sting of truth, radical but accessible, an infinitude of interrelated narratives developed behind a single character, the bombastic nihilist, vulnerable despite himself, the voice of our age, though with a soul that his real-life avatars often lack. Dril predicted our predicament, and perhaps in these dense, insane pages, he will tell us what it means.
"another day volunteering at the betsy ross museum. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the flag. buddy, they wont even let me fuck it"
Note the triple twist - a mildly absurd premise, a shocking turn, and then a landing that takes it further, gives a new context, and the biggest laugh. This is Twitter at its best, embodying aspects of stand-up, poetry, and cultural criticism within a psuedo-narrative context. In these 420 pages we have one of the best recent works of literature (I would classify it as experimental fiction) - hugely influential, ironic but always with the sting of truth, radical but accessible, an infinitude of interrelated narratives developed behind a single character, the bombastic nihilist, vulnerable despite himself, the voice of our age, though with a soul that his real-life avatars often lack. Dril predicted our predicament, and perhaps in these dense, insane pages, he will tell us what it means.
September 6, 2018
IF THE ZOO BANS ME FOR HOLLERING AT THE ANIMALS I WILL FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL
September 7, 2018
I hope in 10,000 years when future civilizations comb through the ruins of our current society, that this is the only book they find.
September 24, 2018
Yes, this is essentially a curated collection of about 1,500 tweets that you can already read, right now, online, for free. But I'm still glad I bought it because 1) the tweets are good, and 2) if anyone deserves to make money off that godforsaken hell website Twitter it's dril. Also 3) when nukes cripple the world's electronics in like three years it'll be nice to have a hard copy.
September 4, 2018
My wife called off the divorce and my friends respect my posting cred again,,,,all thanks to Wint
September 12, 2018
Read this heaping helping of anti-comedy in one or two sittings and understand what it's like to have the abyss gazing back at you
September 12, 2018
reading a 900 page book on Dry Rubs and immediately forgetting all of it and just dumping a shit load of cocoa pebbles on my ribs
October 1, 2018
my massive shoulder span constantly prevents my tiny ,malnourished ass from absorbing sunlight. my body is essentially at war with its self
December 3, 2018
one of the sections is called "Jeans"
April 14, 2020
dropped my brains in hte fucking toilet,
September 12, 2021
this is a perfect piece of literature.
January 10, 2020
After reciting Dril quotes around the house as if they were my own, my wife left me, my family disowned me and my goitre became my best friend. I've now turned to drugs, guns and alcohol and my life has changed for the better. Thanks, moron!
August 27, 2018
good tweeter
January 5, 2019
It's difficult to explain ok. What looks like tasteless idiocy - or, not much better, tastelessly ironic tasteless idiocy - is actually a new, hilarious literary style. I hate Twitter, but use it for this.
'dril' is a self-aware idiot, a boastful masochist, a fanboy, a shill, a disgusting but hapless man. He graduated high school in 2005 but also has grandchildren. He can't spell very well but he breaks out ten-dollar words quite often. That is: he is Everyman, online.
He thinks he's a social critic but he's also an open shill (and this is not unheard of). His mix of self-regard and incompetence is done better than Ignatius in Confederacy of Dunces.
You can get a sense of what people see in him through all the surprisingly apt applications: the prolific tagging of completely different philosophers, US presidents, Romans, Christian denominations.
Missing from this book is the nastier strand of the project, where he resurrects ten-year-old tweets by real accounts with impressively stupid names which accidentally share the aesthetic. (He mostly targets inactive accounts, though.)
It's weird to pay for a book which is both free and dreadful (and lacks some good roughhousing). But everything here is weird.
'dril' is a self-aware idiot, a boastful masochist, a fanboy, a shill, a disgusting but hapless man. He graduated high school in 2005 but also has grandchildren. He can't spell very well but he breaks out ten-dollar words quite often. That is: he is Everyman, online.
He thinks he's a social critic but he's also an open shill (and this is not unheard of). His mix of self-regard and incompetence is done better than Ignatius in Confederacy of Dunces.
You can get a sense of what people see in him through all the surprisingly apt applications: the prolific tagging of completely different philosophers, US presidents, Romans, Christian denominations.
Missing from this book is the nastier strand of the project, where he resurrects ten-year-old tweets by real accounts with impressively stupid names which accidentally share the aesthetic. (He mostly targets inactive accounts, though.)
It's weird to pay for a book which is both free and dreadful (and lacks some good roughhousing). But everything here is weird.
February 18, 2021
There's not much I can say about the brilliance and legacy of Dril as a weird, modern shitposter that took Twitter by storm, but this compendium is a delightful collection of all his best tweets, the only downside is it loses the spontaneity and angle of his digital presence. Still, a brilliant book to have if you want a quick browse through some of the funniest, brainless bits of comedy you'll come across. A little sampling below of some of my favourites, because my words cannot do this entity justice.
"big bird was obviously just a man in a suit. but the other ones were too small to contain men. so what the fuck"
"im afraid i must say that i do not find the mysteries featured on "scooby-doo" challenging enough ."
"i would love to lift all my pathetic, frail followers by the ankles and huck them like tomahawks"
"currently employed as Water Guru at the beach. it's sort of like being a lifeguard except i have no inclination to touch drowning people"
"Hell Yes;. the army is putting me and my guns on a plane back to iraq. Thius is like real life DLC"
"i call evbery four-legged animal I see a dog and I am correct more often than not so I will never stop"
Read at your own peril, there's something tremendously fun about reading 400 pages of shitposts.
"big bird was obviously just a man in a suit. but the other ones were too small to contain men. so what the fuck"
"im afraid i must say that i do not find the mysteries featured on "scooby-doo" challenging enough ."
"i would love to lift all my pathetic, frail followers by the ankles and huck them like tomahawks"
"currently employed as Water Guru at the beach. it's sort of like being a lifeguard except i have no inclination to touch drowning people"
"Hell Yes;. the army is putting me and my guns on a plane back to iraq. Thius is like real life DLC"
"i call evbery four-legged animal I see a dog and I am correct more often than not so I will never stop"
Read at your own peril, there's something tremendously fun about reading 400 pages of shitposts.
December 4, 2018
Exactly what you expect, with illustrations. Utter, perfection
September 11, 2020
Shakespeare will be forgotten before dril.
November 27, 2022
Shit’s incredibly good
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December 24, 2022
perfecttion
August 29, 2018
An absolute, stone-cold masterpiece (and much easier to read as it's collected here than via browsing the Twitter feed).
August 30, 2018
pecan sandies.
November 26, 2018
I barely read anymore and come back reviewing a Dril book. CAN YOU SOLVE THE MYSTERY?
This is a book of selected Dril tweets, broken into categories, with a drawing for each one. However, consider: Dril is one of the funniest people in comedy right now. I don't have many books I can open, read for five seconds, and walk away laughing and unable to explain myself. It's a kind of comedy that you need to be trained for, to a certain extent, but the Dril character should be familiar to anyone who's ever spent time on a message board—the obstinate user who doesn't have a full grasp of the internet or social interactions, but is angry, wronged, and correct, and won't stop posting. The categories serve as a subtle humor in themselves (like, tweets about KFC going in the "Birds" section) and highlight Dril's fixation on certain topics, which is normally something you can only catch after following him for years. The book doesn't include dates and obviously doesn't include favs/RT's (or the dreadful horde of replies trying their misspelt hardest to ruin humor), which allows the tweets to be read how they were meant to: free of context, by candlelight, savored like fine poetry. (Actually I kept my book in the bathroom.)
The main reason I see someone buying this is to support the guy, however there are definitely a lot of jokes in here you forgot about, and the drawings and decontextualization make it well worth the revisit.
This is a book of selected Dril tweets, broken into categories, with a drawing for each one. However, consider: Dril is one of the funniest people in comedy right now. I don't have many books I can open, read for five seconds, and walk away laughing and unable to explain myself. It's a kind of comedy that you need to be trained for, to a certain extent, but the Dril character should be familiar to anyone who's ever spent time on a message board—the obstinate user who doesn't have a full grasp of the internet or social interactions, but is angry, wronged, and correct, and won't stop posting. The categories serve as a subtle humor in themselves (like, tweets about KFC going in the "Birds" section) and highlight Dril's fixation on certain topics, which is normally something you can only catch after following him for years. The book doesn't include dates and obviously doesn't include favs/RT's (or the dreadful horde of replies trying their misspelt hardest to ruin humor), which allows the tweets to be read how they were meant to: free of context, by candlelight, savored like fine poetry. (Actually I kept my book in the bathroom.)
The main reason I see someone buying this is to support the guy, however there are definitely a lot of jokes in here you forgot about, and the drawings and decontextualization make it well worth the revisit.
August 6, 2021
“a guy who calls himself ‘service animal toucher’ is going around trying to trick people into licking elevator buttons. stay safe all.”
“issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, ‘gotta hand it to them’”
“i’m not owned! i’m not owned! i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and turn in to a corn cob”
“If your grave doesnt say ‘rest in peace’ on it youre automatically drafted into the skeleton war”
“i am pleased to announce that this is now a jeans account”
“IF THE ZOO BANS ME FOR HOLLERING AT THE ANIMALS I WILL FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL”
“issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, ‘gotta hand it to them’”
“i’m not owned! i’m not owned! i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and turn in to a corn cob”
“If your grave doesnt say ‘rest in peace’ on it youre automatically drafted into the skeleton war”
“i am pleased to announce that this is now a jeans account”
“IF THE ZOO BANS ME FOR HOLLERING AT THE ANIMALS I WILL FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL”
November 20, 2019
“brevity is the soul of SHIT” – the shit man
- @dril December 25, 2011
The unleashed id of the sujet ideal of capitalism: chaotic, valueless, narcissistic, depressed. Dril embodies the Online Man. Materially, he is powerless – dejected – but his posts give him the illusion of power. He is the mad king of the web, raving about the trolls, the haters, and who is allowed to fuck the flag at the Betsy Ross museum. He stands athwart history, demanding “who the fuck is scraeming ‘LOG OFF’ at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never log off.” So say we all.
- @dril December 25, 2011
The unleashed id of the sujet ideal of capitalism: chaotic, valueless, narcissistic, depressed. Dril embodies the Online Man. Materially, he is powerless – dejected – but his posts give him the illusion of power. He is the mad king of the web, raving about the trolls, the haters, and who is allowed to fuck the flag at the Betsy Ross museum. He stands athwart history, demanding “who the fuck is scraeming ‘LOG OFF’ at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never log off.” So say we all.
May 11, 2019
"This Book is Dedicated To every One Who Has Ever Died"
500 years from now, robot historians will reference this book-sized collection of tweets from the best Weird Twitter account as the authoritative source of early 2000s internet culture. They will take it entirely too seriously. Probably because they won't know what diapers were and why we were obsessed with asses, parkour and fast food.
500 years from now, robot historians will reference this book-sized collection of tweets from the best Weird Twitter account as the authoritative source of early 2000s internet culture. They will take it entirely too seriously. Probably because they won't know what diapers were and why we were obsessed with asses, parkour and fast food.
August 29, 2020
I keep this book on my shelf next to The Holy Bible
August 4, 2019
*crests a hill* hey dudes
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