November 4th, 2009 / 10:47 pm
Behind the Scenes
CLMP Spelling Bee
Ira Silverberg thanked Harper Perennial for sponsoring the event and noted that the Bee was part of Harper’s effort to reach out to small presses and online journals like HTML Giant and its editors. People clapped. I clapped. I wondered who in this room filled with pillars of print publishing was wondering what HTML Giant was. I wondered if they all knew.
–”James Frey, Ben Greenman and Maira Kalman Spell Some Words” by Rozalia Jovanovic
Tags: Harper Perennial, ira silverberg
Is HTMLGIANT an online journal?
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while i appreciate the name drop and the self indulgence, is there any chance, next time, you could actually congratulate the spellers / participants
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November 5th, 2009 / 12:12 amRyan Call—
congrats, spellers and participants!
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November 5th, 2009 / 12:16 amBlake Butler—
haha
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November 5th, 2009 / 12:29 pmAdam Robinson—
Reading the article, I got a sense that no one spelled anything right. So what’s to congradulate?
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November 5th, 2009 / 12:42 pmmimi—
That was my reaction, too. I was expecting some cool little, or not so little, kids or something, who really should be congradulded for their awsome splelling.
Ben Greenman (whoever he is) sounds like a big baby killjoy. Poo.
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November 5th, 2009 / 12:46 pmBlake Butler—
spelling is serious work. you gotta bring that game.
thanks ryan. it seems like if you were writng this post you would have thought to do that.
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November 5th, 2009 / 12:18 amRyan Call—
yeah, im teasing you a litte, but you know i got love for you barry.
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ha. i know you were.
but for real though. i was being sincere. i feel like if you posted this you would have at least thought to mention the participants. you’re a good dude ryan.
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November 5th, 2009 / 12:29 amRyan Call—
thank you barry
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November 5th, 2009 / 12:32 amBlake Butler—
ryan’s actual a total dick.
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November 5th, 2009 / 12:32 amBlake Butler—
is what he said.
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November 5th, 2009 / 12:49 amchristopher higgs—
Ryan is a better poster than me, I will not argue with you on that point. And sorry I didn’t congratulate whoever it is you thought I should’ve congratulated, Barry. I’m lazy. From now on I’ll try to run my posts by Ryan, or at the very least ask myself WWRCD.
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i think in this case, lazy is the wrong adjective, but nonetheless, you’re getting closer.
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i’m not really a domesticated type of guy but, on rare occasions, I have gone to school events with my son. He was in a spelling bee in Kindergarten.
I remember being really bored and thinking “all children are little asshole’s”.
My son is pretty sharp for a little asshole and, to my utmost dismay, he kept spelling words right which meant i was stuck there in domestic hell.
I started eye wandering around the room and took quick notice I was in a sea of soft hips. so many young moms.
One particular mom had on tight blue jeans and white ked’s tennis shoes. I am a sucker for a woman in tight blue jeans and white tennis shoes. It’s in the sway of the hip and the contour of the leg that gets me.
She leaned over to coddle her kid’s head and i saw the smooth skin around her hips and midriff and i got super horny.
I got so hot i started to lose dick control in a room full of kids spelling words for no particular glory.
i remember the last word spelled was “ameliorate” and I kept thinking “i want to ameliorate that mom”.
I ran outside shortly after.
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I subbed in a 1st grade class the other day. The kids were supposed to write a story about what they did on Hallowe’en. One little girl’s story was entitled “my first time drincig bere”.
Kids are great.
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