"'grassroots'* promotional campaign" re Shoplifting from American Apparel
If you (1) blog > 1500 words about me or (2) have a > 500 line Gmail chat about me (and put it on the internet) I will mail you Shoplifting from American Apparel or, if you already have SFAA, Bed.
*UPDATE* The "grassroots" promotional campaign to promote literacy in America, among other things, has ended. 26x [SFAA/Bed], supplied by my publisher, Melville House, recently named "best small press" by the Village Voice, have been "dispersed." The blog posts/Gmail chats have been linked below. *UPDATE*
*UPDATE* The "grassroots" promotional campaign to promote literacy in America, among other things, has ended. 26x [SFAA/Bed], supplied by my publisher, Melville House, recently named "best small press" by the Village Voice, have been "dispersed." The blog posts/Gmail chats have been linked below. *UPDATE*
Thank you for your time and consideration in this "grassroots" promotional campaign designed to benefit its participants in a productive, artistically-satisfying, life-affirming, and "synergistic," even, manner.
01) Lizzi Kepsel (> 1500 words 14) Nicholas Richards (> 1500 words) 02) Andrew Schwem (> 1500 words) 15) David Fishkind & DJ Berndt (> 500 line Gmail chat) 03) Everett Bogue (> 1500 words) 16) Emily Eno & Kate Jones (> 500 line Gmail chat) 04) Chris Moran (> 1500 words) 17) Danielle Unger, Andy Axel, & "Kyle" (> 500 line Gmail chat) 05) Jose Diaz (> 1500 words) 18) Juan Moscoso (> 1500 words) 06) Camille Thomas (> 1500 words) 19) Ben Rosamond (> 2000 words, New Zealand) 07) Brook Winters (>1500 words) 20) Victoria Trock (> 1500 words) 08) Nikki Lentz (> 2000 words, Germany) 21) Sam White (> 1500 words) 09) Colin Marshall (> 1500 words 22) Zac Zellers & Noam Flam (> 500 line Gmail chat) 10) Michael Woodside (> 2000 words, Canada) 23) Tyler Trykowski (> 1500 words) 11) Liam Crocker & "Jared" (> 500 line Gmail chat) 24) Andrew James Weatherhead (> 1500 words) 12) Ted Gillespie (> 1500 words) 25) Mike Kramer (> 1500 words) 13) Buttercup McGillicuddy (> 1500 words) 26) Megan Boyle (> 1500 words)
* might be mis-using the word "grassroots"
55 Comments:
nice
dear tao
i recently did a painting that features a few cultural figures along with figures from my personal life. one of the figures in the painting is you. if i put this painting on a blog and it 'goes viral' (on a small scale) can i have a free copy of bed? the painting took me far more time than it would take me to write 1500 words.
follow up question: is it creepy that you are in my painting?
'mad hits' were indeed received. thanks, tao!
anyone want to gmail chat w/ me about sfaa/tao lin? email me charlie651 at gmail
i think me and jordan castro will do something gchat related maybe
Hooray!
this is sad
last nite i was down in the lab,
talkin' to dracula and his crew
Tao,
Here's my 1500-word blog post on you. I'll e-mail you my address.
Colin
too bad i didn't have a 1500 word essay about you prepared
:(
I agree - the "mad hits" were quite appreciated. Thanks much!
i am grateful for the chance to participate in this grassroots promotional campaign. it allows people to obtain physical objects by writing words, something that should exist more but does not. it reminds me of the kind of 'security of purpose' that school provided, and how i imagined the 'real world' (ie work) functioned.
i've already basically done this and doing so again will cause my blog to become 'misaligned' or something along those lines.
nevertheless, i shall venture to write <1500 words "about" sfaa at the nearest juncture of doing productive stuff and not doing productive stuff and eating chips, probably.
Here's my blog post (1500+ words)
http://chai-tea-and-tai-chi.blogspot.com/2009/10/tao-lin-living-my-dream.html
I too, will email you my address.
Thanks
@chris sweet
@notaverygoodperson yes, if i feel your painting has 'gone viral' i will mail you 'bed'
@aj sweet
@charlie sweet
@david sweet
@jose sweet
@thomas can you elaborate
@anonymous damn
@colin sweet
@brittany i encourage you to write a 1500 word essay
@nymori sweet
@brook sweet
@taolinsuperfan hehe
@vinh sweet
Damn. can't read facebook bro's entry. Nathan simpson plz put up a 'mirror' for us all who don't have da book.
http://bit.ly/2hzeVu
1505 word about Tao Lin.
I just emailed you one. Hope it is 'OK'
this is so great, the whole idea
kudos
i feel like people are 'bonding,' existentially, due to this
tao lin i decided to write 1500 words about you rather than a common app essay because you are more important to me than my future apparently.
i can elaborate:
"grassroots promotional campaign re: shoplifting from american apparel" = stroke tao lins ego for mad hits + book
sad.
commenting = sad
<1,500 word blog post.
constantly refreshing
worried i did not write "quickly enough"
worried i will not receive free book and will have to get it on inter-library loan in 6 months.
clever idea, tao :)
greater than 1,500 is >1,500 not <1,500. far less attractive, unfortunately.
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I 'feel like' I would've won a book, if only I'd commented here first...
Admittedly, I could be in denial.
Gavin aka Your Mortal Enemy
'damn'
'forgot' about this
seems like it is a competition for the final two spots
seems like you should put it up to a 'vote' to create more 'grassroots promotional buzz'
i vote for thomas p. levy and panoptican if you do hold a vote
other possible ways to determine who 'deserves' the final two spots:
- 'write off': seems self explanatory but i'm not sure what it is
- 'rap' battle
- twitter 'battle'
- ebay auction
- american apparel 'off': i imagine this would involve modelling whatever american apparel clothes they own and then selecting the 'hottest' persons or else might involve taking clothes 'off'
anyway, good luck in selecting the winners tao.
wow, Everett Bogue's post is really good.
i don't think anyone writing like Tao Lin can be as successful as Tao Lin at what he does, but this doesn't mean his models on information and business can't be used to promote other kinds of writing (including blogging and journalism), music, and other individually-run ventures.
kudos.
maybe we could vote for best blog post and/or gmail chat
Hi Tao, I am a student at Harvard Business School. Indubitabily this promotion is not cost-effective. You are subsidizing people who would have already bought your book, thus you are not making sales money that you would have made otherwise. So this will end up costing you money unless the sales generated by the promotion makes up for that and exceeds it. Is there any way to measure your sales day to day to check on it? You do not want to be giving charity to people who may be rich and inclined to pay for the book. How much will it cost you to send out the copies of the book? I hope you got all these copies for free, otherwise you are acting as Santa Claus to people. But then there is postage, I don't know what it cost's to send each book, but I think for packages it is depending on how far it is going and then you have to send some to Auatrailia and sign these stupid things, I think, and it cost's even more. I think you should just tell everyone that you are happy they blogged or gmailed about you but if they agree, you will not send them the free book because you need and deserve the money more then that they do. I think everyone who posted this will be happy just to have written about you, you really deserve to keep the money,, or maybe you could have a contest like a reality show with all the 26 people and make them write another blog post and then pick the 5 best one's to send books too. This whole contest really seems like you are just being goodhearted and generaous and doing a good thing to reward your fans. You are a great guy but if you're goal is to make money, will this work? I hope so. But then I bought my copy last month and I reread it already. There has to be a twist on this where you can get a better cash flow from it immeditatley.
& I will do my part by paypaling you some money now. I go to Harvard, my parent's are rich!
difficult to 'compete' with megan boyle i guess. your html table skills are impressive.
hey tao what healthy food would you recommend?
@matthew sweet
@ben sweet
@redpencil swee
@buttercup sweet
@abrupt sweet
@thomasplevy can you elaborate more
@brook damn
@panoptican sweet
@sarahspy sweet
@gavin sweet
@taolinsuperfan sweet
@anonymous sweet
@andrew damn
@anonymous seems effective to me
@anonymous search 'green smoothies' on youtube
did you even read mine?! judging by my high-tech internet web page hit counter, you did not read my blog post, Tao. I'm fairly disappointed. So disappointed that I am going to post the link to it here: http://notapartypixsite.blogspot.com/2009/10/can-i-have-free-book-now.html
@chernography i enjoyed your post
if i had known about it i would have posted it
i think you didn't email me a link, did you email me a link
http://dexterity97.blogspot.com/2009/10/tao-lin-is-now-my-mortal-enemy.html
p.s. I really like number 26.
Dear Tao,
I am slowly working my way through these posts and am thoroughly enjoying them. (Fuck, "thoroughly enjoying them", that sounds so grown-up and lame. Also, I am using capital letters and correct punctuation. What the fuck?) (Okay, now I feel better).
To repeat myself, I think this was a great idea.
I am going to do a two-person grassroots thingie. I am going to loan SFAA to a friend who otherwise would never read it, ask them please to really read it, and have a nice conversation with them about it afterwords. This makes me feel good. This makes me feel like "I am only one blade of grass in this great wide world but that's OK". What can I say, my parents are old hippies and "grassroots" is a "buzzword" I grew up with.
Tao, you should send free books to chernography and Gavin James Bower and not 'penalize' them for 'technicalities' or 'use' your 'discretion' to be 'unfair'.
It discriminates against them if they have dyslexia.
You should send free books to 62 people to be fair.
Hey 'Anonymous', that was really mean. Nice use of inverted commas, though. Well done.
I'll definitely buy your book, Tao. But we're still mortal enemies.
Just sayin'...
i am glad you enjoyed it
and i am quite sure i am emailed you a link, as well as my home address and "postal code"
i even created a special subject line for the occasion
it reads: ">2000: I have a blog: the movie"
you should look for that in your "binky tabby" account
@ anonymous - i am not dyslexic, though i have been very dizzy for the past three days
thanks for your concern
also @tao: since you are not made of free books, i do not expect you to send me one now that the campaign is over
i'm just happy my "work" did not go unappreciated
i wrote about you Tao but its too late
http://vainlikeyou-taolin.blogspot.com/
I am going to use the money I saved by getting SFAA from the blog post to buy a knife and make my friends read SFAA and I suspect they will all like it enough that we will be able to storm the Dean's office and convince them to pay you money to come give a speech.
vainlinkeyou, I like your post
@ ^- :
whatever it takes, i guess, but i'm kinda against the knife thing
would you consider a water pistol ?
i do like the storming the dean's office idea, tho
@chernobyl i searched and saw no email, can you email me again, i would like to mail you a free 'sfaa'
@tao - if you don't get the email i sent you twenty or so minutes ago, there is officially no god/pavement will cancel their reunion tour
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