"Dude, light a match. A literary one, preferably."

What are “Literary Lites”? Oh, just matches that you light in the bathroom. In case you need to, um, mask an odor. Look, do I have to spell it out? Your poop reeks! 

Each matchbox comes with a literary theme. The available classics include:

• Great Expellations
• Fart of Darkness
• The Prince and the Pooper
• Van Winkle Ripped
• The Great Gasby
• The Ill Wind in the Willows
• Atlas Sharted
• Jane Air
• The Outhouse at Pooh Corner
• One Flew out of the Cuckoo's Bum
• Howard's Rear End
• A Rest Room with a View
• A Game on the Throne

The "Preface" is the very start of a book.

But this typo makes the preface of The Vocabulary of East Anglia by Robert Forby (1830) something else completely! (Via.) peeface

Do you like to read in the loo? If so, I've got the toilet roll for you.

From the Literary Gift Company.

Did you know...?

Jo Nesbø is a super-famous European crime author. But did you known he is only slightly less well-known for his Doctor Proctor Fart Powder books?

Please to enjoy this South Korean children's book

[standing ovation!]

The Monkey and the Apple Tree was presented by heyorpheus.

Ain't that the truth!

Via.

life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there sloane crosley

Want to read a good book?

Tough.

urine therapy nature's elixir for good health

Do you know what "La Cacafuego" means?

Readers of The Big Book of Gross Stuff know that "La Cacafuego" is Spanish for "poop fire." And I remind you of this because I was just reading the back of this old book. See anything familiar? (Via.)

Um, your book is sort of freaking me out right now.

The Beginner's Guide to Animal Autopsy, via.

Josh Divine has a thought about what makes a good book!

Check Josh Divine's Tumblr page or his website at JoshDivine.com.

This is a really disgusting book review.

"It's a book that will suck you in, consume you for days or weeks...then let you out the other side both entertained and educated." 

So, the book EATS me? (Via.)

Oh, stop snickering.

Via Mark Frauenfelder.

Of all scholars, medievalists are the most crude.

What can we learn from poop?

A gentleman named David Waltner-Toewes has written a new book called The Origin of Species: What Excrement Teaches Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society. (This is a funny title; check Charles Darwin to get the joke.)

National Geographic interviewed David about his book. Here's a selection:

Question: Explain what you mean by “Unless we change how we think about [poop], we are doomed to forever live in it.”

Until very recently, people thought of poop like just a big pile of manure [that needs to be disposed of]. So it ends up in waterways, creating pollution that leads to people getting sick. We need to think about ways to use the energy in that poop in various ways. For example, people are using poop to produce electricity and heat with biodigesters. Countries like Rwanda have mandated that public institutions have to take waste and put it through biodigesters—this creates methane that in turn produces heat or electricity. So it’s not just waste. 

Q. Can you describe some more unsung benefits of poop? 

The thing about excrement in general is that it’s part of life. Part of the argument I make in the book is that as soon as you have life, you have essentially poop. As life developed, the waste for one animal became food for another animal. We depend on a web of recycling of nutrients, and poop is an important part of that. People get sqeaumish but they shouldn’t be. If you don’t think of it as poop, but instead think of it as recycling nutrients, this is a really interesting and sustainable way to produce food.

This book title sounds painful.

Bottom Turbulence, get it?

Who says oceanographers don't have immature senses of humor?

THIS is a book?

Yes, The Dinosaur Who Pooped Christmas exists. 

Hey, did I ever tell you about the time I peed Thanksgiving? 

A book of poetry? I love poetry!

I Could Pee on This is available at places like Powell's.

Whose bottom is this?

I think I can figure it out.

No, really, I got it. It's a tiger. I don't want to "lift the flap"!

Don't make me!

Via.

How to Wash Your Butt After Pooping

Via.

Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth is an expert world traveler. And since most people wipe with water (NOT toilet paper!), she is also expert at cleaning her backside.

The idea is that you squat over a pit toilet (right) with a jug of "cleansing" water nearby. But for newbie bum-washers, this can be a hard skill to master. What's the secret to success? What follows is from an interview with the doctor.

“[First] you need to take everything off below your waist: socks, shoes, pants, underwear. Then squat over the toilet. Pour water over your bum, and with your left hand, just whittle away with your fingers and try to dislodge any lumpy bits while pouring water.” 

Wow.

“The technique is to use a lot of water so you’re not actually scraping [poop] off your ass. What you’re doing is facilitating washing it off. But if you’re a learner at this, and you don’t take your bottoms off, it splashes onto your pants and you look as if you had an accident, and everyone laughs at you when you come out.”

The good doctor has written a learned book on this very subject. However, its title contains language that some may find unsuitable. So you'll have to keep reading to see it!

Make "All About Poop" happen!

Here's a Kickstarter project I can get behind: A book All About Poop!

But it needs a little more help to happen. Please consider donating to the project. Ooh, here's a nice graphic from the project. Genius!