tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post115285118663552205..comments2011-08-29T18:38:30.069-04:00Tao Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807160197099916059noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-75193740263181792782011-08-29T03:53:44.395-04:002011-08-29T03:53:44.395-04:00just read this in 2011. i am frequently impressed by you, tao. this gave me a lot to think about. thank you for sharing all of this. it&#39;s kind of brilliant.<br /><br />JSJenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17896941766262649632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-23287209252509762332011-03-13T16:32:43.177-04:002011-03-13T16:32:43.177-04:00where was i in 2006. wow.theradiopaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09449581350791973540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-75679087842467572132010-08-05T02:36:39.985-04:002010-08-05T02:36:39.985-04:00i just read this entire post...<br /><br />2:36 a.m.<br /><br />sweet post<br /><br />must wake at 7<br /><br />sweet postJordan Castrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07542978187757368936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-26492697799608612532010-01-24T01:01:34.932-05:002010-01-24T01:01:34.932-05:00tao lin, holy shit<br /><br />i read this entire post<br /><br />you are like my<br />hero<br />or somethingsteve roggenbuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18365298081050960605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-72908631717205353242009-10-01T23:35:57.218-04:002009-10-01T23:35:57.218-04:00We all buy into a value system, but its best to have a healthy amount of skepticism to imposing it on others. There are plenty of situations where that skepticism would best be ignored, but certainly not &#39;art&#39; or &#39;literature&#39;. Maybe book sales. Creativity is the capacity to make decisions outside the constraints of others. There&#39;s a greater &#39;course of human history&#39; to make sense of our contribution w/r/t the total sum of human adaptation/progress (novalue/value).jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13360843876186593356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-3743042660748983632009-09-19T17:59:54.475-04:002009-09-19T17:59:54.475-04:00wow, this kevin sounds like a douche bag. <br /><br />sounds like he just wants to put his stamp on something he didn&#39;t have the creativity to make himself.johttp://www.twitter.com/hehehhehenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-22440818127645508572008-08-25T19:18:00.000-04:002008-08-25T19:18:00.000-04:00It is very uplifting to read this when I feel depressed. I'm overwhelmingly happy that you've since 'done big things' with books, and continue to write in ways that are very real, I.E. using phrases like 'or something.' Thanks for putting up with this shit so eventually you would write more things that I would read and it would make my life slightly better and end a little bit of my unhappiness. You're writing style has 'rubbed off' on me.Will Ragsdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02570441236763273673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-74754973854464266372007-05-02T18:12:00.000-04:002007-05-02T18:12:00.000-04:00I just wanted to break a record for posting a late comment.Steven Augustinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12477865166119233079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-1160092115300428862006-10-05T19:48:00.000-04:002006-10-05T19:48:00.000-04:00i googled 'does tao lin have a smooth hot ass?' to get to this pageRichard Yateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01722003099231399406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-1155020010927467082006-08-08T02:53:00.000-04:002006-08-08T02:53:00.000-04:00Right, the alternative to thinking is having an opinion. which you already said. I'm just repeating things you already said.<BR/><BR/>I'm at work. I'm trying to make a rubber band stand on its side. Finally, I lean it up against the keypad.<BR/>In everything else I say, no compromise.RBradleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871044988546124442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-1154985118807665762006-08-07T17:11:00.000-04:002006-08-07T17:11:00.000-04:00rbradley,<BR/><BR/>yes, thank you for saying that<BR/><BR/>you are right, to most people, like 98% of people, it is impossible for them to view a situation or a thing of information as what it is, which is just a thing, and not for or against anything<BR/><BR/>i said that in this post itself like ten times and look at the reactionTao Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807160197099916059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-1154824049690000552006-08-05T20:27:00.000-04:002006-08-05T20:27:00.000-04:00Thanks for posting this.<BR/><BR/>Some of the comments remind me of people/friends who think that everything is an arguement. They cannot understand that there is no arguement.<BR/><BR/>Carla,<BR/>if you think something is a violation of someone's privacy then you shouldn't read it.RBradleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871044988546124442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-1153511839110252552006-07-21T15:57:00.000-04:002006-07-21T15:57:00.000-04:00Denis:<BR/><BR/>My dad is dead, asshole.<BR/><BR/>He was killed in Abilene in a bar fight with Chuck Norris.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for rehashing those painful memories!Trevor Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171366349881744363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-1153501277646286372006-07-21T13:01:00.000-04:002006-07-21T13:01:00.000-04:00rilke and sean carman, you are weird.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05656982878729053618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-1153426279399191072006-07-20T16:11:00.000-04:002006-07-20T16:11:00.000-04:00We cannot know his legendary head<BR/>with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso<BR/>is still suffused with brilliance from inside,<BR/>like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,<BR/><BR/>gleams in all its power. Otherwise<BR/>the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could<BR/>a smile run through the placid hips and thighs<BR/>to that dark center where procreation flared.<BR/><BR/>Otherwise this stone would seem defaced<BR/>beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders<BR/>and would not glisten like a wild beast’s fur:<BR/><BR/>would not, from all the borders of itself,<BR/>burst like a star: for here there is no place<BR/>that does not see you. You must change your life. <BR/><BR/><I>Do yourself a favor, young poet, and remove this post and all these comments. Maybe shut down this whole blog. Think about your life and what you want from it. You will get over this. Stop being a joke. You really must change your life.</I>Rilkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14868314419500089046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-1153423430013603132006-07-20T15:23:00.000-04:002006-07-20T15:23:00.000-04:00sean carmanTao Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807160197099916059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-1153410353467611882006-07-20T11:45:00.000-04:002006-07-20T11:45:00.000-04:00"hurt feelings" wearing the mask of art and sensibility, I should have said.Sean Carmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03259385757608866259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-1153367128497943162006-07-19T23:45:00.000-04:002006-07-19T23:45:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.chapmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04329239444951564590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-1153365574535168502006-07-19T23:19:00.000-04:002006-07-19T23:19:00.000-04:00I think Carla hit the nail on the head. The 11,000 word post seems like feelings wearing the mask of art and sensibility. Which is both pretentious and sad.<BR/><BR/>Find a friend to talk to. Work through how you feel about this experience, and learn how to protect your feelings, so that next time you have a publisher back out of a book deal, you won't react this way.Sean Carmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03259385757608866259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-1153334127600280182006-07-19T14:35:00.000-04:002006-07-19T14:35:00.000-04:00Trevor, Dad's birthday is coming up. Do you want to go in together on a present?Denis Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389222418807404677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-1153333306284217702006-07-19T14:21:00.000-04:002006-07-19T14:21:00.000-04:00Nick, your mother called. She said you can pick up your laundry anytime.Denis Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16389222418807404677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-1153264747248338622006-07-18T19:19:00.000-04:002006-07-18T19:19:00.000-04:00Tao, I am not arguing, not trying to prove anything, so talk to my dick, hehehe.sr. editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04378547554418769777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-1153263129848416332006-07-18T18:52:00.000-04:002006-07-18T18:52:00.000-04:00I thought it all very incisive and am glad you posted it. I especially liked reading over Kevin's edits and your comments. I won't voice any opinions on the post; I don't have the experience necessary. <BR/><BR/>It was eye-opening. Thanks.Trevor Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171366349881744363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-1153259129415890122006-07-18T17:45:00.000-04:002006-07-18T17:45:00.000-04:00i just realized something<BR/><BR/>everyone is arguing<BR/><BR/>no one is thinking<BR/><BR/>everyone is trying to prove that they are right<BR/><BR/>this post is not trying to prove anything<BR/><BR/>read the last interview<BR/><BR/>read the entire thing<BR/><BR/>i've talked about this before<BR/><BR/>whenever you post anything on the internet or say anything in real life the other person will immediately assume that you are trying to prove that they are wrong and you are rightTao Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807160197099916059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-1153258948519578642006-07-18T17:42:00.000-04:002006-07-18T17:42:00.000-04:00i'm going to summarize this post to one sentence:<BR/><BR/>"No one's way of doing things is any more 'valid' than anyone else's; everyone just has equally arbitrarily chosen assumptions and contexts about the universe, from which each person gives meaning to words like 'good' and 'bad' and 'should,' including me with this sentence probably."<BR/><BR/>what that sentence means: <BR/><BR/>"Nothing matters, everything is done sarcastically, with the knowledge that you are just as 'baseless' in your philosophies or actions as everyone else; this sentence itself is typed sarcastically, because if I really understood what I'm typing I probably would not be typing anything, since any kind of communication, or action, even, is rhetoric and influences other minds."<BR/><BR/>i'm posting this<BR/><BR/>don't argue with these sentences<BR/><BR/>you can't argue with someone who is not trying to make an argument but just trying to think about things publiclyTao Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807160197099916059noreply@blogger.com