Chris Millis

This just in: The guy who actually wrote “Here’s The Situation: A Guide to Creeping on Chicks, Avoiding Grenades and Getting in Your GTL on the Jersey Shore,” but isn’t actually The Situation, is from Saratoga Springs.

Chris Millis, the “co-author” (or, The One Who Did All the Writing) of HTS:AGTCOCAGAGYGTLONTJS, is “a lifelong Saratogian and travels both coasts to work in both books and movies,” his rep Lisa said in an email.

His website bio says he’s a “prize-winning novelist, screenwriter, producer, cartoonist, and best-selling celebrity collaborator.” Right now, he’s executive-producing a film based on his first novel, “Small Apartments,” which he adapted himself as a screenplay, according to the bio. It’s scheduled to shoot in winter 2011, to be directed by Jonas Akerlund (he of the epic Lady Gaga vids). And he’s also working with Rob Schneider on his new memoir.

He got his MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College in Vermont, his BA in Studio Art from SUNY Buffalo, and “[a]long the way, has worked as an art director, daily editorial cartoonist, editor, sportswriter, and hot dog vendor.”

But let’s focus here. HTS:AGTCOCAGAGYGTLONTJS! HTS:AGTCOCAGAGYGTLONTJS! The Situation! Abs! GTL!

From his website:

This year I was James Boswell to Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino’s abdominal musings. What began this spring as a tongue-in-cheek memoir project eventually boiled down to a satirical “guide for the GTL lifestyle” published by Gotham (Penguin) books. Mike is a great sport and deserves a lot of credit for his capacity for self-parody. He fields a blistering amount of vitriol — especially online — and it never seems to faze him. Criticism washes over Mike like water off a duck phone’s back. As far as his book goes, I think the bottom line is: it’s a pretty damn funny lampoon told with Colbert-style earnestness. Mike’s tremendous popularity is rooted somewhere, so I just hope people give the book a chance. (Plus, I drew a bunch of illustrations for the book, too. So if you don’t like the words, you can just color in the pictures.) Crack it open and see if it makes you laugh.

HTS:AGTCOCAGAGYGTLONTJS is doing pretty decently on Amazon: #2 in self-help & psychology books; #4 in parody books.

Anyway, Millis will be signing books from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on December 3, at The Regent Street Arts Center at 153 Regent Street in Saratoga Springs. So, Situation Nation, line yourselves up. No, Mike Sorrentino won’t be there baring a hulky six-pack, but Situation by Association is perfectly suitable, no?

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