if you are a famous person that i like
and you want to possibly blurb my next poetry book, 'cognitive-behavioral therapy' (melville house, spring 2008), email me and i will mail you the book
if you don't know if you are famous or not or if i like you or not email me and i will type, 'you are not famous enough' or 'you are extremely famous but i don't like you' or 'you are not famous and i don't like you' or 'i like you a lot but you aren't famous' or 'you are very famous and i like you; what is your address?'
is this passive-aggresive? i'm not sure, i think i'm doing this so i won't accidentally email someone who doesn't like me asking them if they want to blurb my book and putting pressure on them and increasing their existential despair and further alienating us and just creating more pain and suffering in the world
famous people are busy and feel pressure, i don't want to add to their despair and multi-tasking
i don't think i'm even being serious right now, is this just like a joke about something?
i have one blurb from matthew rohrer so far, i was not afraid to ask him because i was pretty sure he likes me; i will post the blurb here now; thank you matthew rohrer
if you don't know if you are famous or not or if i like you or not email me and i will type, 'you are not famous enough' or 'you are extremely famous but i don't like you' or 'you are not famous and i don't like you' or 'i like you a lot but you aren't famous' or 'you are very famous and i like you; what is your address?'
is this passive-aggresive? i'm not sure, i think i'm doing this so i won't accidentally email someone who doesn't like me asking them if they want to blurb my book and putting pressure on them and increasing their existential despair and further alienating us and just creating more pain and suffering in the world
famous people are busy and feel pressure, i don't want to add to their despair and multi-tasking
i don't think i'm even being serious right now, is this just like a joke about something?
i have one blurb from matthew rohrer so far, i was not afraid to ask him because i was pretty sure he likes me; i will post the blurb here now; thank you matthew rohrer
i don't know, i'm just going to post this, things will then happen and the lit game will continue, serious literature 2007 tao linI hope this new publisher uses my blurb this time. I was a little sad that the other one didn¹t use it. And it was really funny. At least I thought it was. They could have sold tens of copies if they'd put my blurb on that book. How else do people know that the book is any good? No one can actually concentrate in a book store. Because their feet hurt. So that is where I come in: I say that these poems are serious and funny and more than they appear. I am a big fan of Tao Lin¹s writing and this book makes me happy. - Matthew Rohrer
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thats good, im laughing and smiling
tao lin, you are out of control.
you just need to go see sharon olds and pretend you were one of her students and she just forgot.
-kelly
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i like this sentence: famous people are busy and feel pressure, i don't want to add to their despair and multi-tasking.
conn
instead of emailing another person directly and forcing them to make another decision, in the world, that might make them feel anxiety or problems with being worried or not knowing how to act or respond with both kindness and honestly i posted this thing about blurbs
five famous people may have read this post today and thought, 'i think i want to focus on my family and what little friends i have left, and my own work, instead of reading a depressing yet funny and sometimes insightful collection of poetry by tao lin, his second poetry-collection, and then suffering despair over thinking of a good blurb, thinking of whether or not tao lin is hurt by my blurb, and thinking if i have done something moral or immoral based on my worldview, which i'm not even sure of because it changes all the time, all while my personal relationships suffer and more people become alienated from me, the people i actually know and hang out with each day and like'
those five people can now focus on their girlfriends and boyfriends and family, people they know better, which means they are better able to make them happy in comparison to tao lin, who they probably do not know as well
i am nice
joe
i am not out of control
kelly
nice feet
"this is perhaps completely unrelated to this blog entry. oh well. "
oh
i don't know then
i don't think i'm in trouble of 'not surviving' though
you should blurb your own book
yes i should have probably made it a bit more clear that what i was saying was completely unrelated to the blog post. it was more of a general compliment/query because i just finished reading "bed" and liked it a lot.
if i had a wikipedia entry about myself and was famous then i would blurb you.
I'll blurb you, but then again, I'm probably not famous enough. And perhaps you haven't read PtDC yet. Or perhaps you have, and did or did not like it, which doesn't really factor into whether or not you like me as a person.
So, yeah.
you are not famous enough
Too true. Too true.
You should ask West Coast Matt Rohrer to blurb your book. That way you'll be covered on the Matt Rohrer front.
two matt rohrer blurbs, that would be good
can someone contact the west coast one for me? he is low-profile
I'm not famous enough either. No worries. Cognitive behavioral therapy blew. I'm in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, last effort on therapy, and it's actually very good.
One of the classroom/group components is just observing without judgment. When we do this, we sound like Tao. DBT reminds me of Tao. Have you taken DBT Tao?
wreckingball925@yahoo.com
i don't know what DBT is
i like CBT
matt rohrer, thank you
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