We’ve probably all heard or made a similar comment about some writer or actor where you would consume anything that they put out, but the writer Haruki Murakami not too long ago actually did something similar to that, publishing a book about his laundry.
Are there any other similar somewhat silly vanity publications?
It isn’t quite what you’re after, but S.J. Perelman wrote a short story called "No Starch in the Dhoti, S’il Vous Plait", which was a riff on Motilal Nehru (patriarch of the Nehru-Gandhi family) sending his clothes to a Paris laundry.
Sorta reminds me of this quote from Billy Joel on his idea for a farewell tour (but with a different outcome):
The stage is a living-room set: couch, TV, coffee table, food. And there’s bulletproof glass between me and the audience. Then I come out and lay down on the couch. I grab the remote and start watching TV. The crowd after a couple minutes goes, “Fuck this,” and starts throwing shit at the glass.
Well, as a wise holy man once said, “Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels—bring home for Emma.”
I wrote this as part of a review for the DaVinci Code- “For those of you saying you’d watch Sir Ian reading the phone book… you are in luck!”
(Sir Ian spends some good long time doing plot exposition. Long enuf for a bathroom break )
Robin Williams as John Houseman reading the phone book.