Welcome to Happycrueltyday.com. Now you can find out everything you ever wanted to know about Happy Cruelty Day! Daily Celebrations of Quiet Desperation, the book of dark and hilarious new holidays by Bob Powers, in bookstores now. Happy Cruelty Day! collects the best writing from the first three years of the website, girlsarepretty.com, plus over fifty brand new "days" that have never appeared on the web or anywhere else.

Beginning on January 1, the book features 365 new holidays, each accompanied by a strange, dark and often disgusting humorous short story explaining the day you woke up in and how to celebrate it. These 365 daily doses of delight, perversion, and nonsense include Tell A Stranger At A Bar Your Story Day, Give Up Day, Hire Someone Attractive To Pretend To Love You Day, Hang On To Your Wide-Eyed Innocence Day, Sit in Abject Terror Day, and of course, Cruelty Day.

Raw, ridiculous, and laugh-out-loud funny, this book is a sharp-edged satire on the subtleties, shallowness, and stupidity of daily life.

Now go buy a copy!


"I just wanted to give you a warning before you bought this book. You will enjoy it, but it will also crush your heart."
- John Hodgman, from "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and author of The Areas of my Expertise.

"My kind of book. Mean, but in a way that makes me smile. It's like a pleasant nightmare."
- Saturday Night Live cast member Fred Armisen

"So much more than a humor book - hilarious, wise, and truly original - the daily psalm book of the absurd."
- Mike Albo, author of The Underminer