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EVERYONE LOVES AMY (EXCEPT HODA KOTB)

Amy Sedaris's new book,

Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People

, came out yesterday and the internet is beside itself with gushing praise. The Mother Nature Network even goes so far as to call it "outrageous!" We were going to write a really thoughtful review of the book but what's the point now. The internet is unanimous: It's a funny book about funny things you can make and even if you have zero interest in crafting it's still entertaining as hell, if only for the many photos of Amy dressed up like an Indian/Jesus/glue sniffer/burn victim/aerobics instructor, etc. She's like Cindy Sherman with a sense of humor.

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Anyway, the book, it's awesome, yay. Now we've saved ourselves so much time not having to write a review that we can go do some of the crafts that Amy thought up. Although at our current skill level, all we can probably muster is the bookmark made by lining up rows of pennies in between two pieces of clear packing tape. And we're not even sure that one was supposed to be serious. Maybe we could paint champagne corks to look like mushrooms. If we had some paint. And some champagne corks. We are not a crafty bunch here.

So get the book, and if you're still not sure, just watch Amy's own pitch in

this video on Amazon

. It's hilaaaaarious (I'm sad). AMY KELLNER PS: The only people in the world who don't seem to get it are these two cackling, drunk clowns, but Amy handles them with aplomb.