I mean, having read some of this stuff you get the feeling that people are just laying down bricks randomly and then stepping back and saying “yeah, this is good, this is really good” without considering it at all.

I’ve written like that and it’s lazy, unfulfilling, and in the end you aren’t really saying anything. It’s confusing. But I feel like the “scene” thinks that they’re doing something new by being lazy– and maybe with the exception of tao lin, they aren’t. I think what HJ is saying is correct.

The attitude is if you’ve got a keyboard and a computer you can write pretty much whatever you want without thinking about it and it’s instantly art… and I don’t know if that’s really an attitude you can hold for your entire life, or one that will sustain you for your entire life. I don’t know. I like a lot of the things that tao lin is doing with muumuu house, just not the work they actually put out. That could be just a taste thing. But I can’t shake the feeling that it isn’t.

It feels weird reading tao lin say things like he feels BSG’s book is going to be huge and well-considered ten years into the future when they seem to present this front that suggests that’s not what they’re in it for at all… I don’t know. It’s entitlement. It’s just immaturity I guess. That takes us back to the beginning.

I mean, having read some of this stuff you get the feeling that people are just laying down bricks randomly and then stepping back and saying “yeah, this is good, this is really good” without considering it at all.

I’ve written like that and it’s lazy, unfulfilling, and in the end you aren’t really saying anything. It’s confusing. But I feel like the “scene” thinks that they’re doing something new by being lazy– and maybe with the exception of tao lin, they aren’t. I think what HJ is saying is correct.

The attitude is if you’ve got a keyboard and a computer you can write pretty much whatever you want without thinking about it and it’s instantly art… and I don’t know if that’s really an attitude you can hold for your entire life, or one that will sustain you for your entire life. I don’t know. I like a lot of the things that tao lin is doing with muumuu house, just not the work they actually put out. That could be just a taste thing. But I can’t shake the feeling that it isn’t.

It feels weird reading tao lin say things like he feels BSG’s book is going to be huge and well-considered ten years into the future when they seem to present this front that suggests that’s not what they’re in it for at all… I don’t know. It’s entitlement. It’s just immaturity I guess. That takes us back to the beginning.

‘clean up your frat house, boys. I know you expect black women to do it for you but it ain’t 1955 Ohio anymore.’

which i thought was pretty funny.