npr's 'weekend edition'
talked about me and read a poem by me, the poem is from you are a little bit happier than i am
- 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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27 Comments:
that lifted up my spirits. sweet.
'...it is the east, and juliet, is my gf.'
i really can't wait to see 60 yr-olds reading yr stuff in parks and other places where old people hang out and read books, smoking pipes and feeding birds with copies of 'shoplifting from american apparel' in their hands.
i'll take a celly photo and post it on facebook when i see it.
sweet
I to [tao] and the copies must be offered to my address to duty of the horse shed of the burglar of the store, the American clothing we want entrusting.
Congrats.
I guess they put the good poets on "Weekday Edition" and save the bad ones for "Weekend Edition."
Wait. That's a really stupid comment, I guess.
The thing is, even though I still hate Tao Lin, I know my comments are no longer as good as they used to be.
I think I'm bored with hating Tao Lin.
He is now getting all this mainstream media attention, like a normal celebrity, and so hating him seems stupid, like hating Hannah Montana or something.
I have been trying to post hater comments lately, but my heart isn't in it anymore. I think I need to find someone less mainstream-successful to hate.
Yeah, I know, I do hate Tao's lesser writer friends like Brandon Scott Gorrell and Zachary German, but they're just little imitations of Tao and their blogs suck and no one reads them, and no one cares, so what's the point of hating them?
I need to find someone new to hate.
I am a Starbucks barista in real life, and I usually have the early shift, like today (yeah, even on weekends they give it to me because I think my manager hates me but pretends to like me) and I used to get such pleasure to go to the computer early in the morning, like today, and see if Tao Lin had a new post I could comment on, say something really mean and smart, or see if I'd made other people mad with my previous hater comments from the day before.
But now I don't even care anymore. Tao Lin doesn't post these long rambling stupid posts like he used to. It's all publicity about his book or something.
So I think it's time for me to stop hating Tao Lin and coming to this blog and find someone else to hate. If anyone knows like a young, up-and-coming writer with a totally different style from Tao Lin, not someone too mainstream yet, please post suggestions as to who I can hate next.
Or maybe it's time to leave off hating a writer and go to something different. That might be less boring.
What about bands? There are lots of bands I could hate, right? I'd really appreciate it if someone could post the names of some bands I could hate and the blogs I could go on to post comments.
I need to try to something new, and with a band, you can hate more than one person, so you have more targets. And I'd probably listen to their music and get really mad at their success. I'm kind of ashamed to admit this now, but I never actually read any of Tao's books but the first one. But he posted a lot of writing online and he was very helpful because he would always be doing obnoxious things and publicity stunts and cheating people in contests (that was a gift to haters), etc.
Well, if you see hater comments from now on, they will be from another anonymous. (Allowing anonymous comments was another gift to haters by Tao. Maybe I'm bored with him because he made it too easy to hate him.)
Anyway, I wish all the other haters good luck. And, Tao, I wish you bad luck and even though I am not reading your blog or writing comments, I want you to know that I wish you bad luck and hope that you end up a big failure.
Thanks, everyone. Goodbye.
hating him seems stupid, like hating Hannah Montana or something.
at least he got one good insult off before he left
Shoplifting with Hannah Montana.
love the voice they read this poem in
interesting/damn
how odd to have THAT poem read in a 'mainstream' voice, and so abruptly, beginning, and then ending, so abruptly
they expected something upbeat...
how odd
cool, tao. i like that poem
heh, david fishkind
heh, redpencil
anonymous starbucks barista, you should hate james yeh instead. he's "a young, up-and-coming writer with a totally different style from Tao Lin, not someone too mainstream yet"
i actually listen to npr and was pretty startled to hear your name, even though i have the book and like your poetry.
i think this is pretty nice.
Tao, do you like beards.
if i was able to grow a beard i think i would prefer not to have a beard
to Reynard:
A lot of sixty-year olds are tired of maudlin poetry. Tao Lin is refreshing. And brilliant. And outside the box. I know two sixty-three year old people who love, love his work. (One is an artist, one is a philosopher/lawyer.) Tao's work makes them happy. They have seen enough lyrical posturing.
I definitely prefer you without a beard.
well that's neat
to anonymous: let's see some pics!
To Mr. Reynard-
I'm confused. Pictures of what? And where do you want to see them?
Do you mean photo IDs?
no, pictures of the sixty yr-olds reading tao!
you can email them to me and i will write something about the situation (something like a review of the situation) and publish it on my website.
i am not joking at all btw.
reynard, like tao's fish poem, from the fish's point of view, every bit as great as ginsberg's howl, except that ginsberg has a human feverishly howling, and its all about humans, whereas tao has a fish calmly listing fish events, creating similar accumulation, i am not joking, this is a poem that should be (and will be, i am sure) anthologized, and my sixty-three year old friends love it, though they do not want to be in photographs.
that's cool, anononna. i know what you mean. it's like, the other day i took a picture of a drug deal and the dealer punched me in the face and stole my camera. i yelled at him as he ran away, thank you for the performance art piece, sir, life is really a miracle sometimes. he was at least 63.
Tao,
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oh no i forgot to capitalize a letter
Nicely done, Tao
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