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		<title>Your Next Door Neighbor Is A Dragon</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zack Parsons (also known as elpintogrande) of SomethingAwful.com has written a fantastic book. It&#8217;s called Your Next Door Neighbor Is A Dragon. 
As Zack writes, it is a colorful guide to Internet subcultures and the people who live them. Not in the sense of people who make cat macros, but people who believe they are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Zack Parsons (also known as elpintogrande) of SomethingAwful.com has written a fantastic book. It&#8217;s called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Your-Next-Door-Neighbor-Dragon-Parsons/dp/0806527595/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1249078009&#038;sr=8-1">Your Next Door Neighbor Is A Dragon</a>. </p>
<p>As Zack <a href="http://www.somethingawful.com/d/daily-dirt/next-door-dragon.php">writes</a>, it is a colorful guide to Internet subcultures and the people who live them. Not in the sense of people who make cat macros, but people who believe they are dragons. </p>
<p>From his description: </p>
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Pretending that any author could write a comprehensive guidebook to the Internet is the sort of dumb crap that publishers dream up. &#8220;Your Next-Door Neighbor is a Dragon&#8221; is not a comprehensive guidebook, it&#8217;s a travelogue about the Internet in which I visit and talk to people outside the Internet. I focused on the subcultures and fetishes I was familiar with and I took the dangerously stupid step of leaving the Internet and going outside.</p>
<p>Your Next-Door Neighbor is a Dragon details my encounters with otherkin, vores, furries, and erotic fan-fiction authors. It includes interviews and adventures that reveal the truth about aspartame, self-diagnosed Asperger&#8217;s syndrome, the Ron Paul blimp, and how much white power you can download. I even risked my life and visited a doomsday religious cult in Texas against my will.</i> </p>
<p>I am through the first few chapters and it is one of the funniest books I&#8217;ve ever read. Does it provide deep insight into the cultural anthropology of the Internet? No. That&#8217;s not the point. The point, the book puts it, is that the Internet is a spectacle, like Caligula&#8217;s brain swimming around in a fish tank, and he pokes the glass a bit. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Your-Next-Door-Neighbor-Dragon-Parsons/dp/0806527595/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1249078009&#038;sr=8-1">Buy the book</a>. It&#8217;s funny as hell and Zack is a good guy too. </p>
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