I’ve tried to collect from the internet as many ‘blurbs’ as possible over the course of this past year, and I’d like to share a few of them with you here to celebrate our having survived twelve months of being the internet literature magazine blog of the future. The blurbs are real, in that I copied and pasted them from comments and other websites, but I have dropped the names of the blurbers in order to protect the innocent. So, thanks for reading us, hating us, loving us, shittalking us, and supporting us.

“Exactly equivalent to writing on a bathroom wall, and shame on you. Talk about ‘slime balls.’ Slime ball indeed.”
~ Richard Bausch

“I’ve come to realize that HTMLGIANT contributors are, in large part, idiots.”
~ Jerzy Kosinski

“I think HTMLGIANT is still trying to find their voice. They seem to teeter between adolescent posturing and intelligent discussion.”
~ Oprah Winfrey

“I’m ever amazed & occasionally entertained (though not this time) by the inventiveness found in the blogosphere–not to mention how much time the environment steals from the writing of actual poems.”
~ Tao Lin

“I’m sick of their arrogant, narcissistic ways. Sure, their narcissim makes for entertaining blog posts, but it will all wear thin sooner or later. It’s kinda like getting to eavesdrop on what’s going on at the cool kid’s lunch table…”
~ Andy Milonakis

“i think though the postivity is there [at HTMLGIANT], it’s just buried under the negativity, and the dramas getting re-hashed and re-hashed and there’s no accountability.”
~ Tony Kushner

“I don’t get it either. It seems very Warhol-esk, you know, create your own scene…even if it sucks. Make a tight circle of friends, and generate a buzz. It seems to be more about “pop culture” and self-promotion than about poetry. I can wait them out…”
~ Valerie Solanas

“I was so unmotivated by their bullshit.”
~ Stephen Covey

“I hate this place.”
~ Satan

“I like your work. I hate you as poeple. You’re all insecure and bitter and whiny. Everyone that posts on HTMLGIANT. Everyone that posts in the comment section. I want to punch each and everyone of you in the mouth.”
~ Mike Tyson

“I think I’m done with this shit. Some of y’all have interesting posts, but that’s outweighed by the dumb shit. It’s not even inspired stupidity.”
~ Rip Torn

“you people have showed you’re totally immature and not to be taken seriously.”
~ James Frey

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

“basically a white supremacist site.”
~ Pat Buchanan

“Do you actually expect normal people to read this?”
~ Jeffrey Dahmer

“people can go elsewhere for consideration of adult literature.”
~ Sasha Grey

“what happened to htmlgiant?”
~ Douglas Coupland

“i only check it to see if a featured writer has left/been given the boot since there is not notification.”
~ Paula Abdul

“just typed htmlgiant.com into the address bar, pressed enter and then deleted the tab immediately before seeing anything”
~ Steve Jobs’s old kidney

“Is HTMLGIANT quite a long while behind the rest of the world?”
~ Eddie Murphy

“your idea of criticism is like the jerky Republican congressman who said “You lie!” to our Commander in Chief last night. To continue with the analogy to the Grand Old Party – not that most of you will understand the references: if McSweeney’s was Teddy Roosevelt and Robert LaFollette, and n+1 Richard Nixon and William F. Buckley. . . HTML Giant is Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck.”
~ Sarah Palin, author of the new memoir from Harper Collins, Going Rogue, out in bookstores this November

“upper-middle class white guys with coddled lives talking about meaningless bullshit and making a joke out of it because life is so easy and time only exists to mock things including existential despair.”
~ John Updike

“I used to think you were cool. Enough of this petty shit. Now I want to bash your face in.”
~ Mike Tyson again

“Ummmm….Many of the “humor” posts are really douchey and childish. Sorry, they are.”
~ William S. Burroughs

“not enough boobs.”
~ Barack Obama

“After reading through several posts from HTMLGIANT, I have to wonder if the small press community has always been so negative.”
~ Bo Jackson

“Personally using outlook with a boat full of rules seems to keep most of my email problems in order. Oh, and fuck HTMLGIANT.”
~ Richard Dawkins

“You all suck and you are so immature and you writing makes me sick !!!!!!!!!”
~ Richard Dawkins

“just irrelevant, like John McCain.”
~ Jim Carrey

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