tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post5288235012384169732..comments2011-02-14T19:14:29.840-05:00Tao Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807160197099916059noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-52677676009412244932011-02-13T02:46:40.572-05:002011-02-13T02:46:40.572-05:00i remember reading this and feeling pretty moved.david fishkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08021502652677045729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-91767124855845043222009-05-14T14:24:00.000-04:002009-05-14T14:24:00.000-04:00i feel totally detached too. maybe we can high five (or try to) while floating past each other in the void. the arm-momentum would set us spinning like tops and we'd probably smash into the hubble telescope (oops, sorry, i'm sort of mixing the void and outer space, which i realize aren't the same).Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272174813580112575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-42308341554721157832009-05-10T19:09:00.000-04:002009-05-10T19:09:00.000-04:00@connie another tao, nice<br />@anonymous i knowTao Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807160197099916059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-34656360988360001882009-05-10T18:36:00.000-04:002009-05-10T18:36:00.000-04:00you're not going to win the pullitzer prize.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-134901518550641362009-05-07T20:31:00.000-04:002009-05-07T20:31:00.000-04:00TAO! Wow! 8 k for a myspace account - plus the guy seems pretty cool...one of those suppressed artists that followed the Traditional Asian Pathway of Success As Pressured By His Asian Parents. <br /><br />My brother's the same age as you, but one day older. His name is Tao as well and our last name has 3 letters, just like yours. He works at a well-paying job and majored in computer science. I have no idea what I'm going to do in college. <br /><br />To Tao (as if this was to anyone else) - keep it real for the Asians. I think I'll pick up one of your novels because I feel ya boy.Conniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599070360714183672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-3961884593157225482009-05-06T20:19:00.000-04:002009-05-06T20:19:00.000-04:00sorry sorry here: http://didyougetthatthing.wordpress.com/Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14436300162389127324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-27393155866758802262009-05-06T19:08:00.000-04:002009-05-06T19:08:00.000-04:00@peter<br /><br />I can't get it to work eithernathantyreehttp://nathantyree.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-76232571306570349662009-05-06T19:00:00.000-04:002009-05-06T19:00:00.000-04:00tao are you sure? i just pasted it into my browser and it worked.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14436300162389127324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-48430071139610269702009-05-06T18:32:00.000-04:002009-05-06T18:32:00.000-04:00@tao<br /><br />You have inspired menathantyreehttp://nathantyree.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-10023341898407201972009-05-06T17:49:00.000-04:002009-05-06T17:49:00.000-04:00@peter link doesn't work<br /><br />@nathan good job<br /><br />@astronomicblue hiTao Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807160197099916059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-46041786195878950252009-05-06T17:34:00.000-04:002009-05-06T17:34:00.000-04:00I think this is a better idea:<br /><br />http://cgi.ebay.com/become-a-character-in-a-novel_W0QQitemZ170329335490QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item27a86b66c2&amp;_trksid=p3911.c0.m14&amp;_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50nathantyreehttp://nathantyree.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-91862733088875306132009-05-06T16:44:00.000-04:002009-05-06T16:44:00.000-04:00hey tao i blogged about you http://didyougetthatthing.wordpress.com/?p=112Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14436300162389127324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-58120127437181974952009-05-06T15:59:00.000-04:002009-05-06T15:59:00.000-04:00hey, hey. chin up. keep your eye on the prize.<br /><br />...weed and pizza.<br /><br /><br />also, yes, saw you there, failed to say "hi" because it would have involved some sort of crazy random introduction- which can, at times, be worse than a weep-crunchy macbook.emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966985827180541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-4930240696910637742009-05-06T15:31:00.000-04:002009-05-06T15:31:00.000-04:00I am inspired by this. Maybe I'm just insipid. Brent Spiner is fascinating, but that has nothing to do with this.<br /><br />Ants.nathantyreehttp://nathantyree.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-24505870241897064362009-05-06T15:10:00.000-04:002009-05-06T15:10:00.000-04:00i like astronomicblueryan manninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12388299572002030189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-43377295090086349762009-05-06T13:31:00.000-04:002009-05-06T13:31:00.000-04:00i just read the previous blog with that one commenter. one time, i was waiting for a train at union square with a friend of mine who is a girl. next to us on the platform, i recognized tao lin. he was wearing a backpack. i whispered to my friend, "that's tao lin." she didn't know who he was. we got on the train and she slipped into the last available seat in the car, but it had looked as if tao had wanted to sit down. after a stop, she got up and crossed to the opposite door from her seat and tapped tao on the forearm and offered her seat. tao seemed a little surprised to be so directly offered the seat, and he graciously took it. at that point, it was unclear whether he took the seat because he really wanted it or because maybe he just didn't want to reject such a direct offer of a seat. tao didn't know we knew he was tao lin. and he just acted like a normal person being offered a seat... he seemed quiet, somewhat introverted and sensitive to subway-seating dynamics. it was fairly late in the evening on a night when most people hang out with other people. and tao was alone.<br /><br />i haven't really read a lot of tao's work or anything. but, i can say that he is a human being. i mean. i noticed that much. just a person. he doesn't seem malicious, if slightly mischevious. and all this is to say, that even as a joke, no one deserves the type of vitriol and truly mean-spirited comment he got in the last post. it made me sad for that person that he or she felt so vulnerable to tao's public (or private) personality that they would want to make that kind of comment. if they had been hurt by tao personally, i thought it was wrong to air these grievances in a public forum. i feel compelled to speak up on my lunch break. i don't know tao, but i do know mean-spiritedness. that's more nihilistic and more destructive than any brand of irony.astronomicbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03136793714463340414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-52146563039758934882009-05-06T13:30:00.000-04:002009-05-06T13:30:00.000-04:00you make me laugh. thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-70698154846774920622009-05-06T13:27:00.000-04:002009-05-06T13:27:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.astronomicbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03136793714463340414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-34848099676110894122009-05-06T13:14:00.000-04:002009-05-06T13:14:00.000-04:00a theory for you--- maybe the technology you try to speak through has shaped your thoughts. the way your computer gives you information is the way your brain is trying to give you information. all s t a c c a t o, you are the reflection of the milieau. <br /> except its not working. navel-gazing at a robot navel...<br /><br />maybe find a white tower to write your own book of bokonon?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-64894418223669599172009-05-06T12:33:00.000-04:002009-05-06T12:33:00.000-04:00feel confusedTylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006907589053614103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-79311136329451488462009-05-06T09:51:00.000-04:002009-05-06T09:51:00.000-04:00its funny that an investment banker bought your myspace and then used that money to make an investment.The Broad Set Writing Collectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09651872947593204440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-74171103691530755032009-05-06T09:09:00.000-04:002009-05-06T09:09:00.000-04:00cool manZachary Germanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14188086050230223538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-50789978920265090932009-05-06T08:26:00.000-04:002009-05-06T08:26:00.000-04:00We're all doomed to write the colonial literature of the 21st century. All waterboarding victims will read twilight.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-24506559981446855142009-05-06T05:51:00.000-04:002009-05-06T05:51:00.000-04:00I liked the bit in Kevin's blog about you running to the toilet to avoid other people in your class. Totally did that for three years during my degree. <br /><br />Rising sales probably won't start to appear until you release a seminal work. So if 'Richard Yates' is your 'Nevermind' then people will start buying everything else by you. <br /><br />I think Schopenhauer was a big fan of toy poodles.Giles Rufferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01808105838420913539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-47224542555572787262009-05-06T02:01:00.000-04:002009-05-06T02:01:00.000-04:00myspace is the new soup can...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com