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Supervillain and Space Ghosts

Anna — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:01:36 +0000

You can preorder the updated edition of The Supervillain Handbook by The Bureau Chief’s own Matt Wilson. Check it out!

The Supervillain Handbook: The Ultimate How-to Guide to Destruction and Mayhem

Check out Adam Warrock’s latest free EP, Ghostal.

Valentimes Day

Anna — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:27:50 +0000

Check out MSNBC’s Technolog for an account of The nerdiest lovers’ spat Twitter has ever seen.

Under normal circumstances, those who witness a lovers’ spat are often left feeling awkward and as if they intruded on an incredibly private moment. But somehow everything changes once Twitter gets involved — especially if the bickering parties are the grammar gods behind the Associated Press (AP) Stylebook and their counterparts, the funny bunch who runs the @FakeAPStylebook parody Twitter account.

Check out the full story here!

Adam Warrock Remix on Wired and other Adam Warrock things

Anna — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:39:18 +0000

Head on over to Wired to download a remix of Adam Warrock’s single 616

Also, there’s his Parks and Recreation EP and his Mass Effect EP

And his upcoming album available on bandcamp.

How does he manage to be so productive?

End of year Bureau Chiefs News

Anna — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:06:27 +0000

FakePewResearch made Mashable’s 10 Best Spoof Twitter Accounts of 2011

Write More Good was included in Bad Astronomy’s Holiday geek gifts guide.

FakeAPStylebook is Number Four

Anna — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:14:35 +0000

Number Four on the list of Paste Magazine’s 100 Best Twitter Accounts of 2011.

Check it out for some ideas of new twitter accounts to follow!

Gift Guides and Hanukkah

Anna — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:58:30 +0000

Write More Good is mentioned in this holiday gift guide 17 gifts for Grammar Geeks.

Our advice on spelling Hanukkah is mentioned in this article, How do you spell “Hanukkah?,” musing on made-for-TV movies

Bureau Chief on Public Radio in Salt Lake City

Anna — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:58:31 +0000

Tune in tomorrow morning to KCPW’s City Views to hear a discussion with me about FakeAPStylebook!

I’ll be on Segment 2 of the show.

You can listen to the show online, and it is also available as a podcast.

FakePewResearch profile and interview on the Daily Dot

Anna — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:19:33 +0000

Head over to the Daily Dot for a profile of FakePewResearch and comments from Bureau Chiefs Ken Lowery, RJ White, and David Wolkin.

“Did you know that 33 percent of puppies never get hugged?

Or that the top baby names for 2011 were Edward, Harry, Dylan, Chase and Sealteamsix?

If you do, chances are you are one of the more than 13,800 people following @fakepewresearch, a hilarious new parody Twitter account from the minds behind @fakeapstylebook. The account parodies the Pew Research Center, a think tank established in 2004 as a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, known for its public opinion polls and social science research.”

Read the full article.

Dr. Andrew Kunka profiled

Anna — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:33:13 +0000

‘Write More Good’: USC Sumter professor joins several writers in spoof of AP Stylebook
“Andrew Kunka’s friends swear they can spot the USC Sumter English professor’s jokes in the spoof handbook “Write More Good.”
Most of the time, Kunka says, they are wrong.
The book was inspired by a Twitter feed started by Kunka and 14 friends across the country who call themselves The Bureau Chiefs. The feed “FakeAPStylebook” was started about two years ago and offers tips such as “Use citrus adjectives to describe the physiques of baseball players: juiced, lime, fresh-squeezed, limoncello, Orangina.” or “Never bury the lede. Cremation is the only way to make sure it’s really dead.” (That one got retweeted more than 100 times.)”

Read the full story on SC.edu

FakePewResearch Mentioned on Slate and Wall St Journal Blogs

Anna — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:23:59 +0000

Fake Pew Research was featured on the Slate culture blog Browbeat, “Like its forebear, @FakePewResearch takes an iconic journalistic tool—in this case, polling data—and throws in just the right amounts of irony, pop-culture geekery, and absurdism. The resulting feed has the flavor of old Onion infographics back when best-selling CDs were still a common subject of conversation.”

The Wall Street Journal Ideas Market also featured FakePewResearch, “You’ve heard of the Pew Research Center, perhaps — purveyor of earnest surveys and reports on various aspects of American life? Well, Twitter has given rise to Fake Pew Research. The feed delivers demographic factoids that are a mite more unusual than the ones promulgated by Real Pew.”