tony o'neill
- books
- richard yates (2010)
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- shoplifting from american apparel (2009)
- cognitive-behavioral therapy (2008)
- eeeee eee eeee (2007)
- bed (2007)
- you are a little bit happier than i am (2006)
- 'e-books'
- hikikomori with ellen kennedy (2007)
- today the sky is blue and white with bright blue spots and a small pale moon and i will destroy our relationship today (2006)
- this emotion was a little e-book (2006)
- selected 'pieces'
- 'relationship story'
- essay re 'future of the novel'
- essay re mushrooms
- essay re koko
- essay re 'almost transparent blue'
- top 10 worst fruits re blowjobs
- top 10 animals w/o asses
- profile re 'tao lin'
- essay re 'sfaa'
- essay re [various things]
- essay re trespassing
- essay re 'blogging platforms'
- essay re 'three movies i liked
- essay re 'marina abramovic'
- essay re 'honored guest'
- essay re 'sfaa'/music
- essay re seattle
- essay re 'reading in seattle'
- essay re 'levels of greatness'
- essay re 'good and bad in art'
- essay re poems/relationships
- essay re [the word 'nice']
- essay re germany
- essay re 'k-mart realism'
- essay re 'thomas bernhard'
- essay re 'short stories'
- 'we will drink our coffee...'
- the 'can't concentrate' manatee
- the nearly-severely depressed bird
- the existentially-fucked megamouth shark
- the professional sasquatch
- the gay stepdad
- the disappointed ant
- the vegan muffin
- sex story
- exactly what i want
- love is a thing on sale
- leftover crack in red hook
- sasquatch
- we will drink our coffee
- should
- bear poem
- february
- october
- friday
- whale poem
- opposite of song of myself
- interviews
- jeff rosenstock
- stza crack
- ben lerner
- malcolm gladwell
- tony o'neill
- chelsey minnis
- michael earl craig
- richard grayson
- deb olin unferth (2)
- matthew rohrer
- rebecca curtis
- clancy martin
- joy williams
- stephen elliott
- stephen dixon
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45 Comments:
Mr. Lin,
Among the Rules governing the conduct and safety of the public in the use of the facilities of the New York City Transit Authority and Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority is Section 1050.5:
Property and equipment.
a. No person shall destroy, mark, soil or paint, or draw, inscribe, write, spray paint or place graffiti upon, or remove, injure or tamper with any facility, conveyance, sign, advertisement, notice or other property of the Authority, or attempt to commit any of the aforementioned acts, except that this subdivision shall not apply to any work within the scope of any contract made by or on behalf of the Authority.
b. No person shall post, distribute or display any sign, poster, notice, advertisement or other printed or written matter in or on any facility or conveyance without the permission of the Authority, except as otherwise provided by law or these rules.
c. Section 1050.10
Fine and penalties.
Pursuant to section 1204(5-a) of the Public Authorities Law, any person committing one or more violations of these rules shall be subject to either:
a. criminal prosecution in the criminal court of the City of New York, which court may impose a fine not to exceed twenty-five dollars or a term of imprisonment for not longer than ten days, or both; or
b. civil penalties imposed by the transit adjudication bureau in an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars per violation (exclusive of interest or costs assessed thereon).
a. The schedule of such civil penalties will be set forth in an internal procedure manual of the transit adjudication bureau and may be revised from time to time, including provisions for repeat offenses.
b. In addition to a civil penalty for one or more violations of these rules, an additional penalty, not to exceed fifty dollars, may be imposed upon the failure of a respondent in any proceeding commenced with respect to any such violation to make a timely response to or appearance in connection with a notice of violation or order issued by the Authority in such proceeding.
Melville House Publisher's violation of these rules in regard to unauthorized advertisements on the surface of turnstiles at the 14th Street-Union Square subway station has been reported to the New York City Police Department and the New York City Transit Authority.
Thanks for making it so easy to catch your publisher. Unless they take steps to stop this illegal activity, a campaign to boycott Melville House Publishers will commence in the media shortly.
I know businesses have to make a buck, but can't your publishers stop worshiping the almighty dollar long enough to observe the rules that everyone else has to follow? If they want to have ads, they can buy them like other companies.
yes. good point, clarice. we should boycott the New York City Transit Authority. We should bring back the piggy-back ride. thank you for bringing to our attention the chance to teach those MTA fat-cats a lesson! thank you v much.
thank you v much ryan. thank you tony o'neill.
Clarice,
Melville House is not directly responsible for the actions of it's author(s) or the reader/sympathiser of the author. I litter on the freeway, however, Melville House is not responsible nor is the amputee poet I met at a local reading last Tuesday.
However, if you feel the need to boycott, please do so immediately. Like yourself, I am an attention whore and am impatiently waiting to read my name in the "media" (my name on your weblog will do).
Please also provide your dialogue with Melville House or reference material of the communications.
On a different but important note, are you hot and/or abnormal looking Clarice? Please post pictures if you are either. A souless hot chick is just as good as a smiling hunchback girl.
melville house isn't responsible for the MTA sponsoring me
good point jereme, clarice & Melville House are both not responsible for creating an amputee poet. sorry to hear about your legs, tao. you can still drag yourself through the forest with your upper body and publish beavers.
clarice, can you email that to me so i can send it to gawker?
they'll be more inclined to post about it if it's in an email
clarice, please don't email the MTA any more, i don't want any interns calling me from jail wanting advice about what to do
stickers will not be put there any more
if you want to boycott me in the media that would be good, though, i will support you in that
email me if you need help in boycotting me in the mainstream media
Mr. Lin,
The New York City Transit Authority has informed me, and lawyers who work at my company have agreed, that legally, unless you are personally caught placing these stickers, you bear no legal responsibility for this action.
It is Melville House Publishers, as manufacturers of the item that is the subject of the illegal advertisement, and which is the source of the sticker (not you as an individual) which is responsible and which will be held liable for civil and criminal penalties.
I do not wish to "boycott" any individual writers. I am organizing a boycott against products sold by Melville House Publishers unless they stop this illegal activity.
Melville House Publishers, unlike its authors, is a clearly identifiable corporate identity with a physical address, telephone number, and corporate agents such as Mr. Johnson who can be directly served with summonses.
Melville House Publishers is the guilty party here, not its authors who may have no knowledge of this activity. One hopes they would put pressure on their publisher to cease this unfortunate vandalism of the subway system.
Whether it is a joke to you or your friends is no concern of mine. It is a clearly illegal activity which will have serious consequences for the perpetrator -- Melville House Publishers.
"I do not wish to "boycott" any individual writers. I am organizing a boycott against products sold by Melville House Publishers unless they stop this illegal activity."
they already stopped
since they didn't know about it and i said in the other comment that stickers won't be put there anymore
and melville house isn't the source of the stickers
duane reade had them made, without my knowledge, when they sponsored me
Clarice,
What company do you work for if not the Transit Authority?
Your case is baseless if taken to court which you obviously have no intentions of doing.
Will you go after the makers of Krylon to punish the Graffiti next?
Clarice, please post a picture of your elbow or ankle and I will deduct if you are hot, weird or mediocre.
Tao,
I will vandalize Orange County if you would like to send some stickers. I doubt Clarice's fingers reach this far.
jereme, send me your address and i'll mail you some stickers
Mr. Lin,
I see no point in further communication with you. I assure you that since you or any other author published by the offending corporation bears any responsibility for the illegal activity that I will not mention your names in my communications with officials or the media.
I did not e-mail the Transit Authority but made my complaint to the subway clerk in the token booth, who notified both the police and the manager of the 14th Street-Union Square station. The "advertisement" was examined in my presence. Confirmation that the product illegally advertised was manufactured and sold by Melville House Publishers was made within an hour.
If you believe that you have an affirmative defense the corporation can employ, I suggest you contact its representative.
The Transit Authority assures me that they are taking this very seriously. Corporate entities need to exercise social responsibility in their quest to maximize profits. I believe that contact with the company has already been made by city officials.
Corporations like Melville House Publishers which believe they can break laws with impunity need to be made an example of. Being a good corporate citizen, obviously, does not involve violating the integrity of municipal property.
Thank you again for providing the way for us to identify the offending corporation so easily.
melville house isn't a corporation, if by corporation you mean publicly-owned company
you should read some melville house books
i recommend SERIOUS ADVERSE EVENTS
i saw about 20 stickers for a hip hop group with a myspace page, is myspace going to be made an example of?
i think they are actually owned by a real corporation, and they had about 10x more stickers than the stickers for e.e.e. and bed
Tao,
I will send you my address.
Clarice, I believe this all to be a ruse and you are in fact Emily Gould.
I await your ankle picture.
gene morgan said,
"nice product placement.
the city can't do anything to melville house unless it was to prove that people are getting paid to put the stickers up.
otherwise, i'd go spray-paint nike swooshes and ipods over everything."
there
go away clarice
Mr. Lin,
I guess you believe that your publisher or you are above the law.
I am surprised at that, considering the information about Tao Enterprises that I came across in this 2002 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The thing I hate most about the internet is anonymity. Why are you such a cowardly cunt, Clarice, as to have a restricted profile?
It seems to me that the only way anyone can get into trouble over stickers on subway trains is if a cop SEES someone put one up. Setting aside free publicity, anyone could put up hundreds of stickers and get Melville House into legal trouble, right? Proving that Melville House paid people to put them up may lead to legal trouble as well, but good luck with that.
Interesting stuff about where you learned to break rules in that SEC filing:
"SEC Investigation - On April 11, 2002, we were named as a party defendant in a civil lawsuit filed in United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission against Dr. J.T. Lin and Jeanette Lin, his wife, and Mr. Aaron Tsai, an unrelated party. The suit alleges that Dr. Lin and Mr. Tsai committed various acts of securities fraud in 1999 and early 2000, and seeks damages and injunctive relief against them. The suit also seeks an injunction against us. We have cooperated fully with the SEC in the course of the investigation into the facts surrounding this matter and have taken the position that these acts were taken by Dr. Lin and his wife in their personal capacities and not as agents of the Company or within the scope of their employment with the Company. We intend to defend vigorously any attempt to secure an injunction against the Company. Dr. Lin, the founder and former employee, has agreed to indemnify the Company against any liabilities resulting from these actions. On December 13, 2002, a federal grand jury in the United States District Court found Dr. Lin guilty on charges of securities fraud and money laundering and sentenced him to a prison term of five years and ten months and assessed damages amounting to $1,475,000. On January 7, 2004 the SEC notified SurgiLight that Dr. Lin’s conviction would cover all of the shareholder losses except $106,354."
So, as Marco was saying, that must be where you learned you can get away with breaking rules treating people like shit: dissing bloggers who tried to help you by giving you publicity early on; printing the private email of the editor of a small press who tried to publish your book; breaking the rules of an online literary magazine, bragging about "no simultaneous submissions policy" not applying to you and then dissing the editor when she tried to explain her policy in your blog comments; "talking shit" about editors who did nothing to you but deal with your submissions and then putting one of them as a title character in a story; sending that story to an online literary magazine while not telling them the title character is a real person you have some warped grudge against; sending Gawker editors daily posts about everything you do, trying to get publicity; putting dollar signs on top of your blog because money means as much to you as it does to criminals who defrauded stockholders for their greedy purposes; shoplifting from Whole Foods and other places and bragging about it; fraudulently returning merchandise to Borders and other bookstores and bragging about it; placing stickers illegally and vandalizing Duane Reade stores and the subway system and bragging about it; etc. (I'll leave off statutory rape because for some reason you haven't bragged about it.)
You've made it clear that rules don't apply to you. Now the consequences will begin. You will find that there are some things you don't want to have written about in Gawker and other media, that not all publicity is good publicity, and that you are heading for a very, very unhappy future.
That's what happens when you treat people like shit. You may identify with a serial killer and feel no sympathy for his victims, but those of us who've been treated like shit by you actually do feel sorry for you a little.
the rules tao broke were the rules of polite society.
clarice, what makes you a better person than tao lin?
Tao,
I saw your stickers on the window of a Citibank on Saturday and I enjoyed them. They were nicely placed for maximum aesthetic effect.
I, personally, do not advocate capital punishment for sticker-ing.
Also, and I think all the posters here fail to recognize this, Tony O'Neill rocks.
Trevor Johnson,
Perhaps some women want to be anonymous because when they post things men disagree with, they are subject to sexist remarks about their looks and sexuality and called disgusting names.
In 2007 it's unacceptable for a woman to be called a "cunt" in a public forum.
Trevor, since you're so opposed to anonymity, would you kindly let us know your address, phone number, and where you work so that we can contact your employer, neighbors, family and friends to know the kind of language you employ in public about women? Thanks.
Women readers may appreciate Tao Lin's writing, but they also might want to think about buying books of an author who apparently condones calling women "cunts" and other sexist remarks on his blog.
They might even want to consider not buying any books from a publisher who supports him. Maybe feminists opposed to the degrading treatment of women can join Clarice's boycott of Melville House Publishers with a "girlcott," since apparently the only thing corporations understand are threats to their financial bottom line.
Hey, it worked with CBS and ESPN and Don Imus.
Tao Lin,
On a comment left on Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant blog, someone claiming to work for you says that you "paid [him] with a prostitute."
If that is true, that is another reason for women not to buy any Melville House books.
Maude,
I made that comment.
The word "prostitute" is not derogatory.
I like prostitutes. They help me unwind.
I didn't say whore or cunt.
Tao Lin is not sexist. Neither am I.
You should be nicer.
Fasten your seat belt, Billy.
It's gonna be a bumpy flight.
I'm w/ Christine: Tony O'Neill rocked.
Billy,
you may think that you and your employer aren't sexist but I submit that very soon you're gonna be calling karma a bitch.
wow Tao I am impressed. Securities fraud at age 16. Nice.
The fun is just starting (aka Marco Roth cronie):
I enjoyed your post, however, why would you defend corporate america and their precious stockholders? And why would you take umbrage to simultaneous posting? Any smart poet would break this rule unless they do not want to be published. The rest of the martyr rhetoric was amusing. Please include how Tao (or Tao Enterprises) picked you last for kickball, did not share his gogurt, slept with your helmet wearing sister, etc.
Maude,
Hi, are you a cutie? I bet not. I was not degrading women in whole, simply mediocre women like yourself.
Christine,
Tony is good.
Clarice,
Are you avoiding my questions?
Whitney, I couldn't have put it better myself.
Say goodnight, Tao.
Now, from 48 Wall Street, the latest literary laughingstock market report:
The Tao Groans average is continuing its sharp fall, moving toward a record low.
Analysts predict it will be lucky to reach n + 1 by the end of the week.
I know a scared little rabbit who's about to be run out of town.
Yea, Billy, you'll be calling some chick named Karma a bitch, real soon. I submit that to you too. Even if you aren't sexist. You tell him Whitney!
tao
i need a one day pass to jump at the NYU library.
others
those stickers make good book markers.
Also you can write people's phone numbers on them and carry them around in your pocket.
Did the rabbit leave town? And if not is he no longer scared?
"You've made it clear that rules don't apply to you. Now the consequences will begin."
consequences:
1. "You will find that there are some things you don't want to have written about in Gawker and other media"
holy fuck
2. "not all publicity is good publicity"
oh my christ no
hence,
"you are heading for a very, very unhappy future"
this is deeply terrifying
i am so glad i have no sworn enemies obsessing over me and my work
i just got to a computer
this is funny
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holy cow tao.
this is pretty neat.
people research you. or at the least dont ignore your presence.
how about that ice cream? we can put your stickers on our cones. that is not illegal. neither is using our periphery to conspicuously glance at one another while eating said ice cream. not illegal at all.
39.
if i post my address, will someone write me a letter or send me mail art?
butros butros ghali.
yo-yo ma.
i like those names.
someone please work them into the argument.
Well Clarise Tao posted a video of me reading and you start all this shit about the MTA (The POOR MTA! Whose looking out for them???" and, like,something about a court case in florida.
HEY WHAT ABOUT ME????????? DID YOU LIKE THE VIDEO OR WHAT?????
Thank you Tao and Christine and Zachary and ryan (PS - Christine is a very good poet and has a fine collection of poetry called the Transparent Dinner)
Maude - as the father of a young girl, I do agree thaat 'cunt' is not a pleasant word - well, I agree that in America it is not because there is a big social taboo against it. In the UK cunt is not considered a very offensive word and can often be a term of endearment (e.g. "Stop messing around, you daft cunt" would not be considered offensive in the correct context)
however, Ive never heard tao use the word cunt or reallly be rude to anybody. he's a very polite boy and I would have no hesitation about inroducing him to my mother. So it seems a bit extreme to start talking about boycotts when someone on his blog - a public forum - used the word cunt.
What would d.h. lawrence say, eh?
Tony,
I thought I had lauded your reading but I will reiterate. It was good. The material reminded me of times dreamt.
You should come to Orange County. Your accent would fare well .
tao lin is a cunt.
Nice reading, Tony. Thank you.
Master T - I put up the stickers you sent me at Suyu Station in Seoul, Korea. They look pretty good. I will send you pics.
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