Gene Morgan
Gene Morgan is the designer/publisher of Bear Parade, and also publishes some texts through his Twitter Feed Press. He lives with his wife and children in Houston.
Need Some Legal Advice
I just got this in the email. Figured one of you might be/know a good lawyer.
Mr. Morgan:
You are hereby notified to cease and desist your slanderous and libel remarks about myself, Dr. Michael J. Duckett, and my companies (Upgrading Life, Inc. and Hyper Publishing Company).
Please remove all defaming material from your website/blog, HTMLgiant.com. Failure to comply with this request could result in criminal and civil actions brought against you, your company, and agents.
I expect this request to be fulfilled within a reasonable time frame of 72 hours from the date of this email. If you do not comply within this time frame, I will turn this over to our legal department for further action.
Thanking you in advance for your cooperation in this matter.
Sincerely,
Dr. Michael J. Duckett, DC, JD
Here are the posts he’s talking about:
Gene Morgan—
Gene Morgan Here. If you act now, you can still take advantage of Stephen Elliott’s Adderall Diaries Lending Library. For the low introductory price of “free” (plus S&H), you too can be a part of the book-to-face action.
Gene Morgan—
Looks like another old person hates our freedom. Ray Bradbury describes us as “not real” and “meaningless.”
“Yahoo called me eight weeks ago,” he said, voice rising. “They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You know what I told them? ‘To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.’”
A Conversation About The Adderall Diaries
A month ago, both J. A. Tyler and I wrote Stephen Elliott and asked to be included as destinations for an advanced copy of his forthcoming book, The Adderall Diaries (which you can still do). We were instructed to read the book within a week and mail it to the next person on a list of readers. While it was nice reading The Adderall Diaries for free this way, thanks to the generosity of its author, any sort of information we can recall about the book is likely flawed or just wrong. The book has left us, and is with other people now. Neither J. A. Tyler or myself have any way of verifying any specifics referenced in our conversation.
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June 11th, 2009 / 12:09 pm
June 11th, 2009 / 12:09 pm
Like Money?
Like money? Like HTMLGIANT?
We need somebody to handle advertising on the site and to provide some assistance with structuring said potential revenue stream. It is a paid position.
If you’re interested, send an email about yourself and any business experience you’ve had to htmlgiant@gmail.com.
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June 8th, 2009 / 7:19 pm
June 8th, 2009 / 7:19 pm
Gene Morgan—
The Dave Eggers directed short film with James Franco on the new Wholphin is some of the best video art I’ve seen in a while. Dude goes at it for almost thirty minutes.
NEW HTMLGIANT
The new site will go live this weekend, unless my wife has a baby.
If you have any observations or criticism in regards to the new site (and give me a little while to get it all working), please flame me in this post.
Love you guys, and I hope my small changes improve your overall HTMLGIANT experience.
Gene Morgan—
Walden: The Video Game is going to exist. I seriously hope they don’t ruin the gun battles.
Got Balzac Close to My Face, Ho
After an initial rejection by Apple due to its inclusion of ‘Ways Tom Jones Would Dance With Your Mother,’ the ebook reader Eucalyptus is available to all people/assholes with an iPhone or iPod touch.
The interface is nice, the size of the text is scalable, and it gives you easy access to the 20,000+ book large Project Gutenberg. It’s not like it’ll make me any less thirsty for Tao Lin on a Kindle, but it’s fun to browse through so many nice books written by so many nice dead people.
If you have iTunes, you can check it out here.
Gene Morgan’s Twitter Feed Press
I’m sorry for spamming the site.
I Was Wondering Which Programs Other People Use to Write Their Shitty Poetry
For years I just used TextEdit. It’s free, simple, and takes a second to load on even the slowest computer. I own Word, but Word takes like five minutes to load on my three-year old computer, and is sans Clippy these days, which was one of my only reasons for opening Word. I’ve tried various ‘serious MFA literature’ text editors, stuff like Ulysses and WriteRoom, but beyond their really great full screen modes, they didn’t really give me positive emotions.
I started using Pages this year, and I have been pretty happy. It has full screen mode, and I got turned-on to the typeface BiauKai, which doesn’t have bold or italic versions, but I use on everything I write anyway because I don’t like bolds or italics. Also, I’m hoping to make a sweet family newsletter sometime in the near future, and Pages looks like a real winner for that kind of thing. *fingers crossed*
Time Has Passed, Now Lets Get Some Love and Tenderness
In late December I’m going to redesign this site. I’m pretty sure we’re going to move towards a more magazine-type blog, mostly because I’ve found some good templates to steal and why the fuck not, but other than that I’d like to hear some suggestions from the fine people who visit the site.
Do we need a flash intro? Animated gif backgrounds? More pop-ups?
Also, there’s the whole issue of women and how we smell like hot trash to them. Can we fix this? Is it possible to save ourselves from becoming, as Mike Young put it in a very poignant email last night, “a boys’ yuk yuk fag joke club.” I mean, I love a tasteless joke as much as Sam Pink, but we’ve got to temper it with some sweet love and tenderness if we’re going to make this relationship work.
I think. You guys know better than I do, I just build the framework.
I Posted a New Bear Parade Book
I posted a new Bear Parade book today. It’s the thirteenth book for the site, and it has thirteen chapters. My thirteenth birthday was on Friday the thirteenth, so get freaked-out or something. The world is going to end, and it’s my fault.
The book is by Noah Cicero, and is about vampires, existence, and how awesome Elvis and lemon-shakes are. I’m excited. Also, I designed it, so I probably should be.
I’m a shitty editor, so if you see any typos or grammatical mistakes, email me so I can fix them. I love you.
Happy Halloween.
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October 30th, 2008 / 1:48 pm
October 30th, 2008 / 1:48 pm
The Ultimate Game Guide to Your Life®
So, to let my secret yet rabid fanboyism spill forth like the frothy annoying bad-smelling liquid it is, I am ordering everyone who visits this site to buy Christopher Monks’ new book THE ULTIMATE GAME GUIDE TO YOUR LIFE®. I got it in the mail Monday, and it’s entertaining as fuck.
If you’re ever looked at a video game guide, and wondered if someone could write the same thing for your life, and you’re a white male living in America, without cystic fibrosis, this is the fruition of that idea. The book is even better than I imagined that one time I was in line at Gamestop buying the guide for Metroid Prime with my mother’s credit card. Also, not as depressing.
Today is the “Order My Book Extravaganza!” and if you’ve got the Alexander Hamilton to blow, it’s easily worth the money. You’ll like the book way more than Alexander Hamilton. Unless you’re a Federalist. And in that case, fuck you. No way. No how. No Hamilton.
Go here to order.
Other Internet Writers, I’m Sorry For Making Your Beard Pee Itself
I just thought I’d remind everyone else how weak their fucking beard is.
I’d feel sorry for you, but I’m too busy looking like I’ve written nine books on the NYT Bestseller List and gone on permanent tour with Michael Chabon and the HarperCollins All-Stars. So, fuck you.
