{"id":45841,"date":"2025-03-09T12:16:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T17:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=45841"},"modified":"2025-03-09T12:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T17:16:32","slug":"jason-pargin-and-wlbott-the-blue-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=45841","title":{"rendered":"Jason Pargin and WLBOTT: The Blue Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jason Pargin<\/strong> is becoming our go-to guy for a voice of reason on Facebook. Hard truths and reality checks. Mostly apolitical, but an astute observer of culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I recently came across one of his videos that inserts some reality into content creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/v\/1D2ptjh638<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Content creation or art of any kind is a low paying job…. I’m saying factually, statistically, it usually looks like this. This pyramid graph is of all of the songs on Spotify….<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The blue down here? That’s the songs that have basically zero plays. Most of the stuff uploaded has been listened to by no one…..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you made a graph of all the authors in the world it would look just like this. And its the same thing for Substack or YouTube [or WLBOTT]….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now one common objection people make is they say, well, you can’t count all of this because a lot of this is just people creating for the joy of it…. the world is full of people who enjoy making things. And that’s great!<\/p>\nFacebook Video Post<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

You can check out his videos here: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/jasondavidwongpargin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For some reason, this comes up when you search for Jason Pargin. Although the connection is sketchy, the image is too good not to share.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Jason Keith Pargin<\/strong> (born January 10, 1975) is an American humor writer and novelist who formerly wrote under the name David Wong. He is the former executive editor of humor website Cracked.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pargin is best known for his 2007 novel John Dies at the End<\/em>, which was adapted into a 2012 film of the same name. Alongside John Dies at the End<\/em> and its three sequels, Pargin has also authored three books in the Zoey Ashe series and one standalone novel, I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jason Keith Pargin was born in Lawrenceville, Illinois, on January 10, 1975. He and fellow Internet writer John Cheese (real name Mack Leighty) attended high school together and met during an art class they shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1999, Pargin started the humor site Pointless Waste of Time<\/strong> (PWOT)[1]<\/sup>, which would eventually be absorbed into Cracked.com.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

[1]<\/sup> i.e. WLBOTT<\/strong>, the moral equivalent of PWOT<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jason has a new book out, I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom<\/em> is a dark satirical thriller novel by Jason Pargin<\/strong>. Published in 2024 by St. Martin’s Press as a standalone novel. The story follows Abbott Coburn, a disillusioned Lyft driver, as he’s thrust into a bizarre cross-country journey with a mysterious passenger and an enigmatic black box. Pargin blends social commentary with dark humor, exploring themes of paranoia, technology, and human connection in an increasingly chaotic world.<\/p>\nWikipedia<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Q:<\/strong> How cool is the Austin Public Library?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Will There Be a Buffet?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Yes, we are getting lazy, making Elder G<\/strong> do all the heavy lifting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WLBOTT: <\/strong>Good morning, G. For fun, I’m trying to find the high school cafeteria lunch menu for author Jason Pargin’s alma mater<\/strong>. Can you help me identify his high school?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elder G:<\/strong> Good morning! I’d be happy to assist you in finding the high school cafeteria lunch menu for Jason Pargin’s alma mater. While specific information about his high school is not readily available, it is likely that he attended Lawrenceville High School, the public high school serving that area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To access the current cafeteria lunch menu for Lawrenceville High School, you can visit their official website or contact the school’s administration directly. Typically, school lunch menus are posted on the school’s website under sections like “Student Resources” or “Cafeteria.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Tomorrow’s lunch features a choice between a spicy<\/u><\/em> chicken sandwich or a chicken sandwich.
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Apparently, the students at Lawrenceville High School enjoy two lunches, Hobbit style<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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We have circled April 2nd on our calendar – Piggle Stick Day<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<\/div>

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note: a Piggle Stick<\/strong> is the breakfast version of a Corn Dog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jason Pargin is becoming our go-to guy for a voice of reason on Facebook. Hard truths and reality checks. Mostly apolitical, but an astute observer of culture. I recently came across one of his videos that inserts some reality into content creation. https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/v\/1D2ptjh638 You can check out his videos here: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/jasondavidwongpargin For some reason, this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38,14,27,28,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-club","category-curated-absurdity","category-movies","category-will-there-be-a-buffet","category-wlbott-corporate"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45841"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45864,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45841\/revisions\/45864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}