Sh*t My Dad Says - Justin Halpern New softcover book

SH*T MY DAD SAYS

by JUSTIN HALPERN

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Hardcover book with dustjacket, 159 pages. Published 2010

After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is 'like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair,' has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad said to him:

That woman was sexy. . . . Out of your league? Son, let women figure out why they won't screw you. Don't do it for them.

Do people your age know how to comb their hair? It looks like two squirrels crawled on their heads and started fucking.

The worst thing you can be is a liar. . . . Okay, fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but then number two is liar. Nazi one, liar two.

More than a million people now follow Mr. Halpern's philosophical musings on Twitter, and in this book, his son weaves a brilliantly funny, touching coming-of-age memoir around the best of his quotes. An all-American story that unfolds on the Little League field, in Denny's, during excruciating family road trips, and, most frequently, in the Halperns' kitchen over bowls of Grape-Nuts, Sh*t My Dad Says is a chaotic, hilarious, true portrait of a father-son relationship from a major new comic voice.

About the Author and his Dad

Justin Halpern (born 1980) is the American author of the Twitter feed @shitmydadsays, and best-selling book Shit My Dad Says. He is also the co-writer and co-executive producer of a CBS television situation comedy series based on the book.

Halpern grew up in San Diego, California. His father, Samuel Halpern, M.D., is a retired radiologist. A blunt-spoken man, he gave memorable, expletive-laden advice and comments to young Justin from childhood on. Samuel Halpern has been described as "a profane comic genius," "Lenny Bruce with a stethoscope," "a scatological Socrates showering rough wisdom on his son."

Justin Halpern graduated from San Diego State University in 2003. He then headed for Hollywood looking for work as a writer. He wrote screenplays and waited tables, but success as a screenwriter eluded him. By 2009 he was a full-time writer for Maxim Magazine's online site and no longer needed to live in Los Angeles. He moved back to San Diego and ended up living with his parents.

Halpern had always kept a record of his father’s salty comments. Some, repeated to him by brothers, cousins and other relatives, go back to when he was 4 or 5 years old. When he moved back with his parents, his record of his father’s remarks became a daily journal. On August 3, 2009, he started a Twitter feed just to have a place to store his father’s rhetorical gems. He thought he might use some of them someday in a script. To his surprise he quickly gathered a large following on Twitter. By mid-August 2009 he had more than 100,000 followers. By October he had a book deal with Harper Collins, and by November he had a television deal with Warner Bros. By May 2010 his Twitter feed had 1.3 million followers.

In June 2010 Sh*t My Dad Says topped the New York Times best seller list. There is now also a television show is called $#*! My Dad Says (pronounced "bleep my Dad says"), with William Shatner in the title role as the colourful curmudgeon.