tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post5001199789766563388..comments2011-08-25T10:33:28.132-04:00Tao Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807160197099916059noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-11398284824398817892010-05-28T18:44:12.059-04:002010-05-28T18:44:12.059-04:00My five year old just looked over my shoulder and said &quot;That man got &quot;konked&quot; on the nose with a shell. Irony?Mike Collinshttp://exoticvisitors.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-74050865522498501432010-04-04T20:21:46.737-04:002010-04-04T20:21:46.737-04:00seems like an excellent cover and a fantastic novelSocrates Adams-Florouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00713695574076475655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-85170448879862794162010-03-15T00:25:52.790-04:002010-03-15T00:25:52.790-04:00When I first saw the cover I thought maybe it was the man tearing his own face off, or tearing the face off the photo of himself. Sort of like tearing off wallpaper. Like the wallpaper in the background. Did that make sense? Would that make it meta? Is what I just wrote ekphrastic? <br /><br />When I looked at the bigger picture, I saw it was just a conch (pronounced &#39;conk&#39;, or &#39;konk&#39; - did you know that?) and then I got it. I got the conch.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12808564728674793080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-51250328620869591732010-03-05T12:26:09.000-05:002010-03-05T12:26:09.000-05:00@TaoLin from @marshall The plot sounds like my life from the last three years...sort of.<br />I&#39;m more interested in the fact that the first time I saw the cover I immediately thought of a number of things:<br />1. A vagina<br />2. Goatse.cz<br />3. Who is that man?<br />4. Richard Yates<br />I&#39;m anticipating this book.bluewhalesandsomethingcreativehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06360014062547666567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-75414951767729188832010-02-27T11:51:13.782-05:002010-02-27T11:51:13.782-05:00@anonymous sweet<br />@matthew interesting/sweet, &#39;no&#39; re &#39;richard yates ouevre&#39; <br />@l.a. sweet<br />@anonymous sweet<br />@don sweet<br />@anonymous sweet/&#39;damn&#39;<br />@anonymous sweet<br />@anonymous sweet<br />@anonymous yes re &#39;about,&#39; &#39;unsure&#39; re &#39;another&#39;<br />@connor sweet<br />@sarah sweet<br />@jk sweet<br />@anonymous sweet<br />@thelobster sweet<br />@gregory sweetTao Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807160197099916059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-22302732546281358362010-02-23T19:21:38.913-05:002010-02-23T19:21:38.913-05:00Dear Tao Lin:<br /><br />You are going to be in Philadelphia in about a week and I wrote a poem after reading your stuff. I&#39;d like to share with you the poem and hopefully we can talk when you&#39;re here. My email is gregbem@gmail.com!<br /><br />Cheerz!<br /><br />GregGregory Bemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02554655407334513697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-39034509456985824542010-02-19T23:59:48.879-05:002010-02-19T23:59:48.879-05:00For some reason this cover fills me with an unsettling horror, but I&#39;m still excited for the book.thelobsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02274315273602658695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-81319737346777684862010-02-19T11:30:40.027-05:002010-02-19T11:30:40.027-05:00cover seems like a goatseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-36757005114494223572010-02-15T15:01:15.614-05:002010-02-15T15:01:15.614-05:00I&#39;m really excited for this Tao. The cover is suggestive in my mind but in a way that is thought-provoking--keep it, don&#39;t listen to what anyone else is saying.JKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16199023801433187878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-8824613128739157992010-02-12T23:40:38.798-05:002010-02-12T23:40:38.798-05:00man. what a good image.sarah sanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07086981428921567688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-20162021847661213152010-02-11T15:45:13.265-05:002010-02-11T15:45:13.265-05:00Congratulations, Tao Lin. I read your first book and it was good. I don&#39;t really understand why so many people write almost exactly like you in this community of writers. They seem to be missing something. Like themselves a little maybe.<br /><br />You seem to be very good at assimilating parts of your real self into a semi-fictional persona that people latch onto, occasionally mimicking.<br /><br />Perhaps you should &#39;break&#39; the &#39;news.&#39;Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-11370997081835132272010-02-11T07:50:21.769-05:002010-02-11T07:50:21.769-05:00The covers of your books keep getting better, bro. This one seems pretty professional and sweet.<br /><br />Also, your books are &#39;dominating&#39; Australian bookstores right now + I saw somebody walking around uni wearing an &quot;I Am Carles&quot; t-shirt modified to say &quot;I Am Tao Lin&quot;. That&#39;s when it really hit home that you&#39;re now a &#39;household name&#39;. Congrats.Connor Tomas O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09665651530730724769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-14765712563541962472010-02-09T08:02:59.449-05:002010-02-09T08:02:59.449-05:00Tao said:<br />&gt;&quot;Richard Yates&quot; is a uniquely suspenseful &quot;page turner&quot; of a novel linearly conveying the story of a secret romantic relationship between two “severely depressed”/”cripplingly alienated” but creative and ultimately playful humans, ages 22 and 16, who, in part, &quot;via&quot; years of loneliness and disappointment and confusion re &quot;society&quot;/&quot;other people,&quot; have naturally and independently learned to operate &quot;outside&quot; of society&#39;s influence, in a world mostly w/o taboo/rules/preconceptions except those they have, with confusion, and perhaps unsustainably, created themselves, to excruciating and ultimately emotionally powerful results, as their societally/socially &quot;cloistered&quot; relationship becomes increasingly extreme, their behaviors increasingly out-of-control, and their level of contact w/ society (in the form of the 16-year-old&#39;s mother) increasingly &quot;intimate.&quot;<br /><br />so it&#39;s another book about you and Ellen Kennedy?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-14930897054012610872010-02-08T06:07:32.282-05:002010-02-08T06:07:32.282-05:00@Tao damnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-29082066535908409472010-02-06T17:31:05.677-05:002010-02-06T17:31:05.677-05:00i too like anonymous postsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-88420942223128593362010-02-06T01:24:45.439-05:002010-02-06T01:24:45.439-05:00I&#39;m really looking forward to this. Though I suggest you give the cover design a little more thought.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-24507402029265223392010-02-05T21:16:06.309-05:002010-02-05T21:16:06.309-05:00The latest anonymous post is awesome.<br /><br />Anonymous posts are awesome.<br /><br />Leaving a post without allowing it to be traced back to anything connected to anything relating to your identity is awesome.<br /><br />Tao lin is awesome.<br /><br />Blogging is awesome.<br /><br />The Psycho-Social, Chemical, Biological, And Electro-Magnetic Manipulation Of Human Consciousness is awesome (just writing that because it&#39;s playing on my stereo while I write this).<br /><br />Being drunk is awesome.<br /><br />If only Tao Lin could make more money blogging, then he could blog more, then we wouldn&#39;t have to spend our time leaving comments on a post that&#39;s more than four days old.Don Bromahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701702635814547705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-45184143466121672422010-02-05T19:25:07.469-05:002010-02-05T19:25:07.469-05:00The Best Prank EVER<br />One day me and my friend didnt like this girl so we decided to prank call her but it wasnt pretty because her mom answered the phone and we hung up on her!!! she got really MAD!!!and wasnt happy.the next day we told our friend and she told her mom and didnt want to be friends with her so we were mean to her!!! REALLY MEAN!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-88607922840036192832010-02-05T18:07:15.958-05:002010-02-05T18:07:15.958-05:00I await this eagerly.<br /><br />your work, for me, has an addictive quality. If there is a zeitgeist for people like me, then I think it is represented in your work.<br /><br />Though zeitgeist sounds like too grandiose a term for my predicament.L. A. Millshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02148084408107742906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-17809744057334772752010-02-05T17:07:48.917-05:002010-02-05T17:07:48.917-05:00intrigued by description in comments, reminds me of &#39;hikikomori&#39; except less &#39;magical realist&#39; maybe and &#39;more developed&#39; maybe<br /><br />&#39;can&#39;t wait&#39;<br /><br />will familiarity with richard yates&#39;s &#39;oeuvre&#39; be expected / useful?matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08007528023301098832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-15865250285269154912010-02-05T15:32:51.113-05:002010-02-05T15:32:51.113-05:00@t-lin: sweetAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-25933277378324493122010-02-05T14:35:26.439-05:002010-02-05T14:35:26.439-05:00@brittanywallace sweet<br />@BenRosamond sweet<br />@zzellers sweet<br />@MichaelRubin sweet<br />@mi sweet<br />@ChrisMoran sweet<br />@david fishkind sweet<br />@clarifiedconfusion sweet<br />@ErikStinson sweet<br />@Anonymous sweet<br />@shanekoury sweet<br />@elise sweet/&#39;kelly blair @ melville house&#39;<br />@JordanCastro sweet<br />@JimAshilevi sweet<br />@RachelR sweet<br />@thomas sweet<br />@AndrewJamesWeatherhead sweet<br />@Chase sweet<br />@JS sweet<br />@JonnyRoss sweet<br />@gadzooks sweet<br />@Anonymous bro...<br />@Kelsey sweet<br />@Anonymous#1 sweet<br />@butts sweet<br />@Anonymous#1 i&#39;ve &#39;netted&#39; something like $23k in ~5 years from my writing (~$35k including <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=twelve+grand+tao+lin&amp;cts=1265398453345&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=&amp;oq=" rel="nofollow">this</a>; one can read more re this in some of my interviews), i&#39;ve &#39;definitely&#39; made more money, in my life, from working part-time jobs in restaurants and libraries and as a personal assistant and selling art on ebay; i&#39;ve perhaps made something like $1.5/hour from writing (&#39;wild estimate&#39;) and something like an average of $12/hour from doing other things; i post this comment, in part, to not discourage potential customers/&#39;supporters of the arts&#39; re the <a href="http://taolinstore.com" rel="nofollow">tao lin store</a>/<a href="http://muumuuhouse.com/store.html" rel="nofollow">muumuu house store</a>, i feel that in the long-term my writing will &#39;net&#39; me more per hour than $12<br />@Anonymous#1 sweet<br />@AndrewJamesWeatherhead sweet/damn<br />@JimmyChen sweet<br />@vanjulio sweet<br />@Anonymous sweet<br />@Anonymous bro...<br />@jessev sweet<br />@Anonymous sweet<br />@Elise sweet<br />@DonBroma sweet<br />@chinchillakwak sweet<br />@Anonymous sweet<br />@Anonymous sweet<br />@Anonymous sweet<br />@Anonymous sweet<br />@GlenBinger sweet<br />@marshall &quot;Richard Yates&quot; is a uniquely suspenseful &quot;page turner&quot; of a novel linearly conveying the story of a secret romantic relationship between two “severely depressed”/”cripplingly alienated” but creative and ultimately playful humans, ages 22 and 16, who, in part, &quot;via&quot; years of loneliness and disappointment and confusion re &quot;society&quot;/&quot;other people,&quot; have naturally and independently learned to operate &quot;outside&quot; of society&#39;s influence, in a world mostly w/o taboo/rules/preconceptions except those they have, with confusion, and perhaps unsustainably, created themselves, to excruciating and ultimately emotionally powerful results, as their societally/socially &quot;cloistered&quot; relationship becomes increasingly extreme, their behaviors increasingly out-of-control, and their level of contact w/ society (in the form of the 16-year-old&#39;s mother) increasingly &quot;intimate.&quot;<br />@anonymous sweet<br />@anonymous sweet <br />@anonymous sweet<br />@anonymous sweet<br />@clarifiedconfusion sweetTao Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807160197099916059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-32180698046248383962010-02-05T12:21:17.936-05:002010-02-05T12:21:17.936-05:00there is public interest in the title, but perhaps not giving an explanation of it could pique curiosity, or rather, sustain curiousity.<br /><br />description of novel sounds complicated, again, looking forward to itclarified confusionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08153110520726617039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-80748983891772432952010-02-05T10:32:09.238-05:002010-02-05T10:32:09.238-05:00just chill and enjoy the bro&#39;s writing if you like it broski, why&#39;s it always gotta be about the moneyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-70593563547057082372010-02-05T00:52:56.385-05:002010-02-05T00:52:56.385-05:00T-Lin, couldn’t your answer here just be a furtherance of the ruse, though? I wish I knew the truth. But I guess it doesn’t matter. Because maybe we’re getting into Baudrillard-style simulacra territory. But maybe that’s what you’re trying to do. Damn it.Anonymous #1noreply@blogger.com