December 22nd, 2008 / 1:49 pm
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FREE HTMLGIANT MANIFESTO TEMPLATE

turd

here is a free template to use for a literary journal manifesto. i feel that this will help other people alienate and discourage other people. i was going to write a post about the democratization of literature (after reading blake’s blog) but i can’t handle a steaming 85 comment thread. here is the template:

we at “(name of river or city or college) Review” like (random emotion). we like subversive (or transgressive, you choose!) work that (verb relating to exploration, perhaps “uncovers” or “unearths” (oh shit i like that “unearths”)) and (re-somethings, maybe re-interprets) the lens of fiction in an increasingly (vague literary theory) world. tempt us. hurt us. it’s like (author) said, “blah blah snow is pretty blah.” we like (vague descriptor, maybe “edgy” or “experimental”) but not (equally vague word like “profane” or “pornographic”). we want work that (verb meant to suggest intellectual stimulation) the reader. we want to change the world with our journal. we want mother teresa to leap from her grave (or condo if she’s still alive) and do a jig in her own ejaculate. in the words of (just go with ts eliot).

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32 Comments

  1. matthew savoca—

      this is funny

  2. matthew savoca—

      this is funny

  3. jereme—

      i am sad a ‘literature democracy’ post was not written.

      i found this to be truthful and not really funny.

  4. jereme—

      i am sad a ‘literature democracy’ post was not written.

      i found this to be truthful and not really funny.

  5. sam pink—

      matthew and jereme, in my arms, you will be loved and held.

  6. sam pink—

      matthew and jereme, in my arms, you will be loved and held.

  7. Blake Butler—

      sam pink seems descended from rommel, i mmmm you all day

  8. Blake Butler—

      sam pink seems descended from rommel, i mmmm you all day

  9. Justin Taylor—

      i thought this was truthful too, but i still laughed at it.

      I LAUGH IN THE FACE OF THE TRUTH. … I guess.

      Also, what’s that a picture of? my best guess is that those are Walruses that somehow grew to the size of houses in the suburbs, then they started wrestling playfully in a field, but while they were doing that something happened that turned them into piles of rich brown shit where they stood.

  10. jereme—

      sam no.

  11. Justin Taylor—

      i thought this was truthful too, but i still laughed at it.

      I LAUGH IN THE FACE OF THE TRUTH. … I guess.

      Also, what’s that a picture of? my best guess is that those are Walruses that somehow grew to the size of houses in the suburbs, then they started wrestling playfully in a field, but while they were doing that something happened that turned them into piles of rich brown shit where they stood.

  12. jereme—

      sam no.

  13. sam pink—

      blake, i am descended from gilbert gottfried and mengela. justin taylor, i think that is a picture of what i want to live in. jereme, kiss me you fool.

  14. sam pink—

      blake, i am descended from gilbert gottfried and mengela. justin taylor, i think that is a picture of what i want to live in. jereme, kiss me you fool.

  15. jereme—

      gilbert gottfried UP ALL NIGHT! on USA networks.

      the chick was hot too.

      i would like to destroy mengela with my fist.

  16. jereme—

      gilbert gottfried UP ALL NIGHT! on USA networks.

      the chick was hot too.

      i would like to destroy mengela with my fist.

  17. Blake Butler—

      the picture is me tomorrow, you can find it by googling ‘turd’

  18. Blake Butler—

      the picture is me tomorrow, you can find it by googling ‘turd’

  19. sam pink—

      put an author photo of a pile of shit in “scorch atlas”

  20. sam pink—

      put an author photo of a pile of shit in “scorch atlas”

  21. Alicia—

      snow is pretty

  22. Alicia—

      snow is pretty

  23. Blake Butler—

      that is a really good idea

  24. Blake Butler—

      that is a really good idea

  25. barry—
  26. barry—
  27. jereme—

      i need a spoon

  28. jereme—

      i need a spoon

  29. gena—

      OH MY GOD EW

      i have an aversion to feces, ughhhh

  30. gena—

      OH MY GOD EW

      i have an aversion to feces, ughhhh

  31. barry—

      that got you all wet didnt it gena.

  32. barry—

      that got you all wet didnt it gena.