April 14th, 2010 / 5:09 pm
Snippets

29 Mini Essays by Joe Brainard [Thanks to Mike Topp for the heads up]

GIRL SCOUTS

Girl Scouts is more than selling cookies.

23 Comments

  1. Heather Christle

      This feels restorative. I wish I were ill so I could read this and feel better. Blake, aren’t you ill or something? GOOD TIMING.

  2. Heather Christle

      This feels restorative. I wish I were ill so I could read this and feel better. Blake, aren’t you ill or something? GOOD TIMING.

  3. zusya

      just when i thought those were getting really bad, this gem pops up:

      WOMEN’S LIB

      A woman can do anything she puts her pants to.

      sentiments like these are only barely permissible in my book (see mini-essay [missy?] “PEOPLE”) if given a voice like Don Rickles, Jeffrey Ross, et al.

  4. Matt Cozart

      zusyas of the world, relax

  5. Matt Cozart

      zusyas of the world, relax

  6. Blake Butler

      the best of all timings

  7. Blake Butler

      the best of all timings

  8. alan

      awesome, thanks for bringing this to light

      where the fuck is the collected brainard his executor (ron padgett) has so far failed to deliver to us?

  9. alan

      awesome, thanks for bringing this to light

      where the fuck is the collected brainard his executor (ron padgett) has so far failed to deliver to us?

  10. zusya

      dude, i’m drunk at work. already taken care of. anyway, here’s an impromptu missy:

      THE 70S

      Things seemed like they were changed, but actually weren’t.

      /man i sound pissed off today.

  11. Jordan

      > where

      I’ll ask him.

      You have to admit he did pretty well getting I Remember back into print several times. And then there was that traveling exhibition, and the Siglio collection of the Nancy work.

  12. Jordan

      > where

      I’ll ask him.

      You have to admit he did pretty well getting I Remember back into print several times. And then there was that traveling exhibition, and the Siglio collection of the Nancy work.

  13. Jhon Baker

      VAN GOGH

      He dared look the sun in its face and steal its radiance.

      ah, yes yes.

  14. Jhon Baker

      VAN GOGH

      He dared look the sun in its face and steal its radiance.

      ah, yes yes.

  15. KevinS

      Brainard + Topp = yummy cookies

  16. KevinS

      Brainard + Topp = yummy cookies

  17. dan

      this is awesome. i taught joe brainard to 5th graders yesterday.

  18. dan

      this is awesome. i taught joe brainard to 5th graders yesterday.

  19. Sean Lovelace

      I thought most obvious and weak, but I will nod my head to a few gems, already cited.

  20. Sean Lovelace

      I thought most obvious and weak, but I will nod my head to a few gems, already cited.

  21. alan

      Is this Jordan Davis?

  22. alan

      Is this Jordan Davis?

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