April 6th, 2012 / 3:34 pm
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OkCupid letter

35 Comments

  1. April 6th, 2012 / 3:43 pm Anonymous—

      This is awesome.

  2. April 6th, 2012 / 3:57 pm Mike Young—

      bravo

  3. April 6th, 2012 / 4:16 pm lorian long—

      yeah this is pretty much the best htmlgiant post in a long time. 

  4. April 6th, 2012 / 4:18 pm lily hoang—

      nice.

  5. April 6th, 2012 / 5:32 pm mimi—

      a lot

  6. April 6th, 2012 / 5:36 pm jesusangelgarcia—

      yes, 3xlike.

  7. April 6th, 2012 / 6:07 pm Scott Riley Irvine—

      Seems like I’ve never had a desire to read House of Leaves until now. 

  8. April 6th, 2012 / 6:22 pm William VanDenBerg—

      And when Jimmy Chen saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more shitty authors to conquer.

  9. April 6th, 2012 / 8:52 pm Gavin Pate—

      This is only great because MZD is so not shitty . . .

  10. April 6th, 2012 / 9:09 pm Joseph Riippi—

      Hooray.

  11. April 6th, 2012 / 9:48 pm Jackson Nieuwland—

      like

  12. April 6th, 2012 / 10:09 pm Ryan Bradford—

       Can’t wait to see what Poe thinks of this.

  13. April 7th, 2012 / 1:42 am postitbreakup—

      so much better than only revolutions, good job, mark

  14. April 7th, 2012 / 4:32 am M. Kitchell—

      tfys is great tho

  15. April 7th, 2012 / 4:42 am postitbreakup—

      haven’t gotten to read it yet but hopefully will in october

  16. April 7th, 2012 / 7:08 am Jason Tibbetts—

      Give yourself the whole of October

  17. April 7th, 2012 / 10:42 am Carolyn DeCarlo—

      around witch? idgi

  18. April 7th, 2012 / 1:02 pm Michael—

      Ionno, seems pretty derivative of http://media.theonion.com/images/articles/article/76/onion_news217_jpg_600x1000_q85.jpg

  19. April 7th, 2012 / 2:07 pm Jimmy Chen—

      yes, i will admit i was cognizant of The Onion’s wonderful 2003 ‘Girlfriend Stops Reading David Foster Wallace Breakup Letter At Page 20,’ and would merely hope that said derivation is compensated this latter’s focus on the formatting, and less on the original idea; though, inadvertently, we’ve implicated their mutual heavy use of footnotes. whoa, i recently flipped through john d’ agata’s ‘the lifespan of a fact’ which seemed more nuts than anything, mainly because the dissonance seemed imperative. it looks amazing, and i want to read that.

  20. April 8th, 2012 / 3:19 am Anonymous—

      hilarious.

  21. April 8th, 2012 / 1:28 pm Mike James—

      So MDZ wrote this or J. Chen?

  22. April 8th, 2012 / 6:52 pm postitbreakup—

      definitely MDZ

  23. April 9th, 2012 / 4:23 pm Nich Eggert—

      ‘imperial lactation’ 

  24. April 9th, 2012 / 8:35 pm C—

      of course he would contact someone almost half his age, that’s totally appropriate to date someone who could be your daughter…

  25. April 10th, 2012 / 9:59 am Juan Murillo—

      So funny and sad and true.

  26. April 10th, 2012 / 10:29 am NYSE Options—

      I would think a published author would know the difference between “your” and “you’re”.

  27. April 10th, 2012 / 10:31 am Peter Armstrong—

      I would think a published author would know the difference between “you’re” and “your”.

  28. April 10th, 2012 / 12:45 pm Jimmy Chen—

       dude. your calling out a typo, composed at one’s employment distractedly, on a free blog; you actually felt strongly enough to do this. i mean.

  29. April 10th, 2012 / 1:30 pm KansasBard—

      -1 for not formatting every instance of the word “house” in blue.

  30. April 10th, 2012 / 3:47 pm Rachael Cleveland—

      I would assume the 2 spelling errors were intentional, but I fear they are not. That killed it for me! :(

  31. April 11th, 2012 / 9:32 am Merzmensch—

      Awesome. MZD meets Malevich.

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  33. April 18th, 2012 / 2:25 am Christopher Douglass—

      Is the part about “you’re work, of course” intentional?

  34. May 23rd, 2012 / 3:02 pm Allyson Rudolph—

      How am I only seeing this right now? Hereby changing my OKC profile to include HOUSE OF LEAVES and adjusting “you should contact me if,” to “you are Mark Z. Danielewski.” Thanks, HTMLGIANT, for helping me re-find intention in internet dating.

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