I have a similar comment today in my blog. I suggest you check it out. Also, it has been found that creative people are often crazy enough to be diagnosed as such, so knowing this I don’t think writers and poets who are worth a damn ever really get above that line – only in moments where the laurels are too heavy to cast aside and burn.
Certainly accurate enough as a starting point for investigation. Suggest drafting a graph displaying the life of a writer who does not get to meet Charlie Rose or Oprah Winfrey.
I find myself coming to HTMLGIANT simply to read ZZZZIPP’s comments and feel better about the world (in a chuckling sort of way) for some too-fleeting moments. Is there any help for me? Am I a ZZZZIPPaholic? Do I need intervention?
Major suck, especially since I just read that my radical views on slavery and Benjamin Franklin will have to be published IN A MAGAZINE OF GOOD REPUTE before I can get my book published. Self-publication looks more likely every day.
d— I guess “but it’s funny!” stops working for me at some point. Of course, the patronizing “critiques” of hip hop are the other side of the same coin, especially all the family values/role of the father conservative shit.
David Backer— The one premise I can offer to justify my “whining” is this: In Jones’s book, and a lot of writing I’ve been reading online, there is a lack of engagement with extant-real systems of human organization: economies, households, cultures, societies,...
Richard - Zine-Scene— I thought Shelley was really nice when I saw here. She stayed around after the reading and talked with a bunch of people and seemed really laid back… It might have been because she was hosted by the University of Alabama faculty, who are really laid back too.
mimi— Or maybe someone slipped some MSG into my dipping sauce.
mimi— Yeah, the Fashion Severe connection is weird; is this borderline ‘exploitation’? Korine is BFFs with Chloe’ Sevigny, is he not? Did you ever see Zoolander? Remember the ‘Derelict’ (pronounced ‘de-re-LEEKT”) collection?
mimi— I do see individuals (it’s almost always a lone person, not a ‘kid’, and ‘homeless-looking’ , sorry, this is terrible, I feel bad) drinking from a cough syrup bottle on a street corner and acting crazy. I think there are mental health issues. I don’t...
my life sucks though i often wished it blew
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March 15th, 2010 / 4:34 pmNathan Tyree—
I’m with you there
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March 15th, 2010 / 6:39 pmamoorad—
ditto
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I respectfully disagree. Surely death is a high point of both?
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March 15th, 2010 / 5:58 pmLincoln—
one last caress…
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March 16th, 2010 / 1:11 amsasha fletcher—
i have got something to say.
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March 16th, 2010 / 4:09 pmce.—
I killed your baby today.
It appears to be “sucking ass” currently : )
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my coordinates aren’t anywhere on these graphs
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Blucks.
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The third one.
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I have a similar comment today in my blog. I suggest you check it out. Also, it has been found that creative people are often crazy enough to be diagnosed as such, so knowing this I don’t think writers and poets who are worth a damn ever really get above that line – only in moments where the laurels are too heavy to cast aside and burn.
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lol…
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March 15th, 2010 / 10:31 pmAluminum Shark—
“lol”
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March 16th, 2010 / 7:01 ambob dylan—
‘lol’
‘or something’
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fucked if you do.
fucked if you don’t.
i feel refreshed.
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you’re lumping oprah’s book club in with charlie rose interview?
Looks like I’m close to death, either way you slice it. Thanks…Jimmy for ruining my night. Oh and you misspelled marriage so, um, gotcha back!
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Slouching toward publication.
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Certainly accurate enough as a starting point for investigation. Suggest drafting a graph displaying the life of a writer who does not get to meet Charlie Rose or Oprah Winfrey.
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Both look pretty sweet to me. They publish, people read their work.
One issue: why is death automatically categorized as bad? I imagine death will come with a sense of relief, so good.
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i am an unhappy person
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March 16th, 2010 / 8:33 pmZZZZIPP—
SORRY TO HEAR THAT ANON
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I find myself coming to HTMLGIANT simply to read ZZZZIPP’s comments and feel better about the world (in a chuckling sort of way) for some too-fleeting moments. Is there any help for me? Am I a ZZZZIPPaholic? Do I need intervention?
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March 17th, 2010 / 1:17 amZZZZIPP—
zzzippp
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March 17th, 2010 / 11:27 amTim Ramick—
A sip of cripppled zzzymmetry ≠ the hair of the dog.
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My life sucks, but you know… one thing sucks has that blowing doesn’t… is the hedonism, and that is the best part!
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Why is puberty so high up there?
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March 17th, 2010 / 12:24 amMatt Cozart—
puberty is the decline from the relative happiness of childhood
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March 17th, 2010 / 11:44 amTim Ramick—
and death is the crash at the end of either brakeless slide (though I wish the writer’s life got the steeper thrill)
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Major suck, especially since I just read that my radical views on slavery and Benjamin Franklin will have to be published IN A MAGAZINE OF GOOD REPUTE before I can get my book published. Self-publication looks more likely every day.
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I read “Does your wife suck or blow…”
Explains why I thought all you guys are just weird!!
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Mine blucks
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