gmail chat me while i am on methadone, adderall, green juice, or iced coffee
*update* the 30-minute gmail chat blocks with me on various 'drugs' sold on ebay for $61 (methadone), $36 (adderall), $31 (green juice), $35.76 (iced coffee); thank you for bidding if you bid, click links to read posted gmail chats *update*
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10mg of adderall? really? come on tao. :)
oh well. bid on the adderall anyway, not sure if i have bidder's remorse. maybe you'll be chatty.
damn, seems really tempting
maybe offering a 'control' sober gmail chat with the 'drug' chat would be better or something
maybe we could even make 'causal claims'
'tao lin gmail chats show that drug use lessons detachment from others'
half of a 10mg white bar or half of a 40mg wafer?
can i have the other half?
seems a good deal. i'll bid for the iced coffee.
is this really what you want is smashing.
You know what?
Fuck this writing shit, I'm getting a job.
you can pay me to gchat you while i am on oatmeal
i don't understand why you need $
ur books are grate & sell well
u must get like $200,000 from each book no?
i mean, look at ur sales figures
if u r like sam, it dosent seem u spend lots of $ stupidly
r u joking when you say u need $???
u must be so rich from ur books, they r good & sell lots of copies
i dont get why u always seem hard up for cash
i've made probably $15,000 in 5 years from my writing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methadone#Adverse_effects
looks good
i'll chat with you if you eat chipotle salad (vegetarian beans, fresh avocado, lime cilantro rice, onions, peppers, salsa, etcetera) 1/2 an hour before the chat.
tao did you really used to use dope or is that methadone from some1 else?
@anonymous if you win any of the other auctions and it is over $50 i will eat that in addition to what the auction says i will 'ingest'
@lauramatsue someone else
this should be sublingual if oral, but would prefer via intravenous injection 3 seconds before and 15 minutes in.
the methadone should be administered rectally
hehehe
If I win the methadone one and it's, say, over $50, can you hook a bro up so it'll be a mutual 'on' chat?
something can be arranged if it is over $60
booyeah
maybe you'll OD
(irony)
u r the most popular & bestselling young writer
im shocked u make only $15K in 5 yrs
what hope is there for anybody then
i bouhgt all ur books but cant afford to do more
publishing sounds fucked to me if thats all u make
or melville huose is cheating u
u need a better agent or a publsher that will pay u more
u have clout bro - ur all over the place wit reviews, interveiws
i think its unfair u r not at least making money to live on
its upsetting
damn
Write to Melville House and ask them why they are making money off Tao Lin and he needs to resort to selling stuff on eBay to survive.
Something isn't right. I trust Tao when he says that's all he made, and it doesn't make sense because he is popular and everyone I know buys his books.
If you like Tao, write to info@mhpbooks.com
Maybe we can get them to give Tao the money deserves. We can have a sit-in at their bookstore in Brooklyn if enough of you are mad that Melville House is not giving Tao his fair share of money from the good-selling books!
I want to send you some money if you DON'T do the methadone (horrible stuff) or the addreall (more yuk chemicals) or too much iced coffee either. Any eBay opportunity for that?
@anonymous i encourage people to not email melville house, i am happy with melville house
@anonymous[2] i will substitute green juice for 'drugs' if you request it, and also change it from 30 minutes to 45 minutes, if you win the 'drugs' ones and request this
I am reading Tao Lin's "Oprah Sometimes Thinks" interview.
Interestingly, Buddhist monks are positively or neutrally characterized as "detached," whereas Tao's characters, very similar in their qualities, are negatively described as "apathetic" or "sociopathic." For a long time I have wondered about American culture's addiction to "passion." IMBHO, in my honest Buddhist opinion, passion just leads to war, drinking, overeating, and stupid affairs.
IMHBO, Tao is way ahead of the game.
whaaat no Tao on Salvia? Tao on LSD? I'd pay for Tao on heroic doses of DMT.
Tao-
Read half yr novella today. Read some at work at the library here in portland and then my mouth had a cold sore and i decided the remedy was whiskey for the antiseptic analgesic aspect and made the C Bar at 6:31 and they let me have a happy hour priced drink even though I was a minute late so I had a double ancient age bourbon on the rocks for an amazing $5.50 tho I wish they denied me the happy hour then I would have just stiffed them a tip and paid the same price.
is ellen kennedy that girl in PA that opens up the book, sylvia I think? as in plath?
are you a bad shoplifter or did you just get cocky and lazy when you got caught cos you were so seasoned, like i said I've only read 1/2 so maybe you address this issue.
gmail chat written out with quotes as an actual dialog is amazing. now if anyone does it they'l be ripping you off. which sucks in a way.
did you read that latest jonathon letham blog piece in harpers? it seemed late to the game.
i really like yr book so far and may read some more right now though i am inebriated and sushified and watched adventureland which was contrived.
i can't afford a gmail chat with you.
-larry
whoops i guess "sylvia" was "shiela"
i still wonder if she was "ellen"
just read yr AC part and tho i grew up in NJ never went there. it made me want to play blackjack
non-attachment does not equal apathy
Tao, can you explain why Melville House is cheating you so that you don't earn enough money from your books? You are selling well. How much do you make on your books? What kind of advance do you get from Melville House? Do you have an agent? If not, why not? Don't you think an agent could get someone who is "the voice of Generation Y," the most talented and popular writer of his generation, a true genius (I believe this) more money than you are currently getting?
You have tremendous success and great reviews and sales. Dennis Loy Johnson must make a lot of money for you. MELVILLE HOUSE IS THE HOUSE THAT TAO LIN BUILT! Without you, they are not as profitable.
You seem so smart and bold in other ways but seem to be shy about getting what you deserve from your publisher.
So, I still think everyone should write to Dennis Loy Johnson at Melville House at info@mhpbooks.com.
Let's find out why Tao doesn't have enough money! He should at least be making more than Benjamin Kunkel or Keith Gessen because his books outsell their pathetic efforts.
All Tao's fans and friends: instead of us giving him $5 here and $20 there, let's make sure his publisher is not cheating him and robbing him blind of his justly due profits!
Detachment, also expressed as non-attachment, is a state in which a person overcomes his or her attachment to desire for things, people or concepts of the world and thus attains a heightened perspective.
Apathy (also called impassivity or perfunctoriness) is a state of indifference, or the suppression of emotions such as concern, excitement, motivation and passion. An apathetic individual has an absence of interest or concern to emotional, social, or physical life. They may also exhibit an insensibility or sluggishness.
Cheating is an act of lying, deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, or imposition. Cheating characteristically is employed to create an unfair advantage, usually in one's own interest, and often at the expense of others, Cheating implies the breaking of rules. The term "cheating" is less applicable to the breaking of laws, as illegal activities are referred to by specific legal terminology such as fraud or corruption. Cheating is a primordial economic act: getting more for less, often used when referring to marital infidelity.
Passion (from the Latin verb patior, meaning to suffer or to endure, also related to compatible) is an emotion applied to a very strong feeling about a person or thing. Passion is an intense emotion compelling feeling, enthusiasm, or desire for something. The term is also often applied to a lively or eager interest in or admiration for a proposal, cause, or activity or love.
@Anonymous
what the fuck are you on?
chill.
Tao said he is happy with his publisher so what are you so worked up over?
i feel like you surreptitiously want to sabotage him in some way by alienating not only him, but also his fans from his publisher. after which he will be forced to take your advice and you will feel good about yourself, like you have achieved something.
be your own "most talented and popular writer of his generation, a true genius (I believe this)" and stop trying to live vicariously through the dude.
he's an adult.
damn seems like methadone is way out of my cash range. dope bro
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hi! ryan manning
love love love your comments
i am trying to be detached (successfully, too, i think, i definitely feel happier that way) (or is 'trying' the wrong word? does that make me sound 'attached' to the idea of 'detachment'?)
i am definitely not apathetic
i have a few serious passions, but just a few, which i guess is just another way of saying there are a few things i love
i like reading the dictionary
i haven't dreamed a question for you yet, but your name did show up in a dream i had a few weeks ago, as the name of a street on a street sign, white lettering on that-street-sign-green background: 'live manning a' - that was the name of the street in my dream
could you define humor for me please? thanks
to ryan manning
dictionaries are also written by non-vegans
marie,
i don't understand your remark about whether or not something is written by vegans
do you care to elaborate?
Ryan, for example:
The OED says "filet mignon" is a "small tender piece of beef from the end of the tenderloin." (Origin mid 20th cent.: French, literally 'dainty fillet.')
A vegan dictionarist says "filet mignon" is a "4-5" piece of soft muscle of a horribly butchered bovine from the end of the Psoas major muscle anterior to the transverse processes of the lumbar vertebrae, near the kidneys."
Magritte, at the butcher-shop, would always ask for "two horrible kidneys."
hm
i'm going nowhere, i'd rather go somewhere instead
ryan manning seems desperate.
i think we are all desperate sort of.
Is there potential for future, non money obligated chats if we turn out to be worth talking to?
[the following is a 'personal' question meant to maybe aid/direct my thoughts into a positive pattern in 'dealing with' a personal problem. i feel like i can 'comfortably relate' to the people here.]
thinking within an existential frame where the "universe is arbitrary" is it 'bad' to have sex with a girl who isn't your girlfriend and then withhold the information from your girlfriend in order to prevent her from emotional "pain and suffering", while simultaneously ignoring the other girl you had sex with in order to prevent her from 'getting her hopes up' and eventually having to experience emotional "pain and suffering"?
Tao, with your 'fame' there is 'high probability' that a larger than usual amount of women will be interested in you sexually. is it being "moral within a moral frame" to not have sex with multiple attractive partners when you feel the desire to do so or can it somehow be described as being "moral within an existential frame"?
(these questions are also open to commenters)
p.s. bid is a cool idea. seems fun.
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Marie,
i have never articulated a definition of the term girlfriend. i use it with self-awareness,though. my understanding is that it is one who is your companion/partner. a person with whom you share an intimacy that is comprised of physical, emotional, mental [and perhaps two or three other things not in the english language] aspects.these aspects intersect and cause intimacy to peak at the sexual moment.we assume that the companionship is exclusive due to the low probability for a human being to reach an intimacy as satisfyingly intense with more than one person. having sex with another human other than the partner is seen as a betrayal in that the partner is rejected as an intimate mate despite an unspoken agreement to not be alone together. consequences of this break include excessive selfawareness, sadness, loneliness, grief and a re-emergence into the overwhelming insignificance and anonymity of human life.
reader do you have a location on the internet in which you are a writer?
adderall
i don't understand why you often mention soft drugs in your blog posts... are you joking? it seems a bit contradictory. but most of all lame.
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more like lauramatsue seems desperate. giv tao's arsecheeks sum time 2 dry already
ryan manning is so sweet
sweet header bro
have you guys seen the official video for 'is this really what you want?' by "jesus christ." (the indie band)?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6wHVbzIY1c
i really like your baltimore reading documentary - so funny, so telling -
ryan manning is not desperate, ryan manning is just being ryan manning
i finished sfaa - it was funny and touching but left me feeling 'slightly confused about life' and 'wanting a little more' (of the book, not of life)
i felt like 'it doesn't matter when the characters sleep'
Prices have gone up for Tao Lin's time. Remember when we used to chat for free?
damn
i'll chat you for 20 bucks. or for free if you feel bored or feel like you would enjoy talking to a nice stranger.
I think I may just see how the Santa Rosa VIP goes, while I ride off my high. I think I’ll go to that, though, in any case. I’ll decide by this weekend. Then, if the VIP sells out…and SR is not an option for VIP.
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