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i'm pleased beyond compare that this blog can provide a destination for those googling the following:

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a bit ago Brian McFarland wrote about some tweets he liked, including one of mine, here.




i don't think i mentioned it on here but i'm editing anonymous reviews at HTMLGIANT, which is exciting. you should write one and submit it. there are a couple wild ones promised to come down the pipe but no one has reviewed a kitchen appliance yet. review a review of a painting or ESPECIALLY your favorite indie literature. a review of Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer has received a Critical Hit Award from Electric Literature, linked here.

january is rejection month. i received three rejections today and i liked every one. i even like form rejections. i don't know what it is. just the act of getting an email (or especially a paper letter) from a magazine is enjoyable for some reason. maybe because it is evidence that someone read the story or, if they didn't read it, then at least they are acknowledging that they received it. i have been trying not to check the calendars of certain schools to see when their semesters start.

i want this post to be the number one resource on the internet for skootsheeting

i'm currently reading Steve Erickson's Tours of the Black Clock, which is unhyperbolically amazing. the language, the pov shifts, and basically the audacity of the whole book so far has me thinking i waited too long to pick it up. as a very small example, Hitler is a character, though he is never named. the book is also quite humorous.

i've started typing first drafts instead of writing them by hand, and i wish i had made this transition sooner. i think it was partly superstition/laziness/something but 90% of the time i would write by hand, thus forcing myself to revise as i typed it up. but TYPING IS FASTER. i am looking at a DeLillo interview right now: "I like the tactile quality of the typewriter and the sense of hammers striking the page and fingers hitting the keys, and the shapes of letters themselves, yes." in late December i spent more than three whole days JUST typing up the contents of some steno notebooks, which was a pain. i also think writing longhand was a kind of protection against the internet, and a pad of paper and pen being more portable than a laptop etc. now i just don't go anywhere and try to control myself.

the rapper Cage should never have made music after 2005ish or maybe he should have never "cleaned up his act." it's weird when someone's first single is the best thing they'll ever make (below). i do still enjoy that dust album he did with Tame One, however.