History
We began in January 2005 as a New Year’s resolution of sorts. We were annoyed that we were in the dark about most of the books on the year end “best of” lists being published. Around that time we also started talking about the 50 Books meme that was going around the internets. An early version of this web site was called “50 Books in 05″. We dropped that name when it quickly became obvious that we were getting ahead of ourselves. We adopted our current name as the best of some in-house suggestions. The domain followed quickly thereafter. The preferred version of our unofficial theme song can be found here.
Our Contributors
Tim is the ringleader, web guy, editor, and czar of Baby Got Books (BGB). He is also the artist formerly known as DJ Cayenne. Tim lives in Atlanta, GA and is married to BGB contributor Shortbus. You can be pals with Tim at these fine social networking sites:
Shaft is a regular contributor to BGB, as well as our chief legal strategist, poker correspondent, and drummer. Shaft also lives in Atlanta, GA.
Dr J contributes from the State of Texas. Dr J is our Chief Historian and Director of Spelling.
RaeRae, wife of Dr J, heads up our Awareness Department.
Nitro Nicole contributes to BGB from New England. She keeps us posted on the happenings in Manhattan, where she commutes daily.
FlavaWheel is an occasional contributor and frequent commenter who weighs in from San Francisco.
Sally Rogers contributes to the site from Atlanta, GA.
Herman Glimscher, paramour of Sally, also contributes from Atlanta, GA.
Weezie, formerly in Atlanta, writes from her new home in San Francisco.
ElvisSmith was our Mid-Atlantic representative, but he now monitors our activities from London, England.
Swizzle D contributes to the site from Atlanta, GA.
Monk also contributes from Atlanta.
If you are an overeducated (or at least a semi-overeducated) youngish person with a sleep disorder and a surfeit of opinions, the thing to do, after all, is to start a blog. - A.O. Scott
An aside: We found out after picking our name and getting our domain registered that there is a religious video by Southpaw (or White Boy DJ?) called Baby Got Book, which is about the Bible. We’re not those guys. We’re plural. See the video and their site here.