February 11th, 2013 / 4:30 pm
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Jimmy Chen released an ebook based on his hilarious Formspring

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Hey guys, I’m a big fan of Jimmy Chen in general and his Formspring in particular, and it’s recently been turned into an ebook. It compiles the best of his circuitous, you could say Nabokovian responses to questions like “Should I go to grad school?” and “Who should I lose my virginity to?” It’s available here.

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6 Comments

  1. February 11th, 2013 / 6:57 pm Erik Stinson—

      it’s not an easy read

      jimmy is not an easy man

      this is good, i think, for me

  2. February 11th, 2013 / 7:19 pm Jimmy Chen—

      thanks stephen for posting this, i appreciate it. in tangent to the ‘exclusive’ excerpt published on thought catalog, for readers here, another ‘exclusive’ excerpt:

      Is law school worth it if I don’t plan to be a lawyer?
      Yes it is, as you can apply—or, more importantly, exude to your prospective employers—your ability to not only extract the essential logic of linguistic clutter, but also contribute to such clutter in the aid of obfuscation, when in the service of your clients, which short of a courtroom, oft happens in a boardroom, from which financial bounty comes. You will soon be on a boat, the setting sun twinkling through the Chardonnay, that crystal piss of opulence and unlikely heresy.

      Why are all the bands my friends listen to so bad?
      We have two theories: (a) the populace’s taste is innately inferior because most people need to be stupid in order for the smart people (you, in this case), out of frustration, to make or at least contribute to higher forms of art—and let us not even broach upon commercial art weighed down by economic contingents, and its indirect correlation to “pure” aesthetics; (b) it is not your friends’ music which is bad, but your music which is difficult to listen to, obscure, and pretentious, a flaw in your own inflated perception of yourself aggravated by a narcissism which enjoys feeling ostracized, albeit aesthetically, safely ensconced in such petty-yet-rigid parameters whose subjectivity is so severe and solipsist it feels almost objective, you screwball.

  3. February 12th, 2013 / 1:10 am Mike Kleine—

      Jimmy Chen reminds me of man I once knew in College. Back then, we were not men, but kids–becoming men. But now, we are (both) men.

      This is brilliant.

      Jimmy Chen is good.

      I like that Jimmy Chen wrote this.

  4. February 12th, 2013 / 11:26 pm leapsloth14—

      Jimmy Chen is a badass.

  5. February 16th, 2013 / 4:09 pm marshall mallicoat—

      did this one make it in:

      what are your thoughts on plies

      i find an underlining racism of white people who listen to ghetto
      ebonically acute rap in which the black rappers act retarded, whose
      sentiments towards said rap is (1) ironic, which stems from black face
      mockery, as all cultural irony is essentially classism and mockery; (2)
      ingratiating, which stems from both ‘white guilt’ and a weary
      subconscious PC-ness of wanting to be ‘down’ [via cred] with black ppl;
      (3) political, a very subtle kind of racism in which the white person
      feels that the ‘blackness’ of the rap is automatically socially
      antagonistic with the ‘whiteness’ against which they desire to rebel, so
      the underlining notion is ‘black ppl are bad, and i want to be bad’; of
      course, i’m only talking about white people’s orientation with rap; idk
      about black people at all. i hate plies, he acts retarded

      http://www.formspring.me/jimmychenchen/q/297167875511172775

  6. February 16th, 2013 / 4:10 pm marshall mallicoat—

      did this one make it in?

      what are your thoughts on plies

      i find an underlining racism of white people who listen to ghetto
      ebonically acute rap in which the black rappers act retarded, whose
      sentiments towards said rap is (1) ironic, which stems from black face
      mockery, as all cultural irony is essentially classism and mockery; (2)
      ingratiating, which stems from both ‘white guilt’ and a weary
      subconscious PC-ness of wanting to be ‘down’ [via cred] with black ppl;
      (3) political, a very subtle kind of racism in which the white person
      feels that the ‘blackness’ of the rap is automatically socially
      antagonistic with the ‘whiteness’ against which they desire to rebel, so
      the underlining notion is ‘black ppl are bad, and i want to be bad’; of
      course, i’m only talking about white people’s orientation with rap; idk
      about black people at all. i hate plies, he acts retarded

      http://www.formspring.me/jimmychenchen/q/297167875511172775