May 19th, 2009 / 3:31 pm
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Tao Lin will never publish me, so I did it for him.

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30 Comments

  1. Nathan Tyree

      That’s a little bit of genius

  2. Nathan Tyree

      That’s a little bit of genius

  3. Jimmy Chen

      sweet

  4. Red

      I like thinking that Tao Lin is borderline retarded. Like Andy Warhol. A retard savant.

  5. Jimmy Chen

      sweet

  6. Red

      I like thinking that Tao Lin is borderline retarded. Like Andy Warhol. A retard savant.

  7. Jimmy Chen

      damn

  8. Jimmy Chen

      damn

  9. davidpeak

      you are a little bit funnier than i am

  10. davidpeak

      you are a little bit funnier than i am

  11. Matthew Simmons

      I miss Fran.

  12. Matthew Simmons

      I miss Fran.

  13. tao

      damn

      sweet

  14. tao

      damn

      sweet

  15. oat

      Tao missed the best opportunity to have a ‘steady cash flow.’ Instead, he does stuff like sell shares in his novel and his MySpace page. That’s OK, but that’s $20,100 he has to pay taxes on. Right? I hope he’s got a good accountant.

      Anyway, here’s what Oat would tell Tao:

      Dude, you should have taken your Melville House advances — I’m guessing like $20K so let’s go with that — and had a contract where instead of getting the money upfront, or half upfront and half on delivery of ms. or publication or whatever — instead of that, you go on Melville House’s payroll.

      Dennis is your buddy, he would have done it. You’re on the Melville House payroll for 20 weeks, which you’re grossing $1000 a week. Then you get laid off. Due to budget cuts or downsizing or hard times in the publishing industry.

      You collect unemployment! Usually half your gross pay. In Mass., where I live — I know because I’m collecting for 9 months now, and they keep extending the bennies due to the recession — I get like $554 a week.

      So you could have like $500 a week cash from government for a long, long time. Ya just gotta be on the books. (I had my grandpa put me on the books of his company.)

      ‘on the books’ then ‘laid off’ then ‘unemployment’ is how you get steady cash flow, bro.

      Damn, you’ll say. Too late for the coming books, but that’s how you should structure your next book contract. Sweet, huh?

  16. oat

      Tao missed the best opportunity to have a ‘steady cash flow.’ Instead, he does stuff like sell shares in his novel and his MySpace page. That’s OK, but that’s $20,100 he has to pay taxes on. Right? I hope he’s got a good accountant.

      Anyway, here’s what Oat would tell Tao:

      Dude, you should have taken your Melville House advances — I’m guessing like $20K so let’s go with that — and had a contract where instead of getting the money upfront, or half upfront and half on delivery of ms. or publication or whatever — instead of that, you go on Melville House’s payroll.

      Dennis is your buddy, he would have done it. You’re on the Melville House payroll for 20 weeks, which you’re grossing $1000 a week. Then you get laid off. Due to budget cuts or downsizing or hard times in the publishing industry.

      You collect unemployment! Usually half your gross pay. In Mass., where I live — I know because I’m collecting for 9 months now, and they keep extending the bennies due to the recession — I get like $554 a week.

      So you could have like $500 a week cash from government for a long, long time. Ya just gotta be on the books. (I had my grandpa put me on the books of his company.)

      ‘on the books’ then ‘laid off’ then ‘unemployment’ is how you get steady cash flow, bro.

      Damn, you’ll say. Too late for the coming books, but that’s how you should structure your next book contract. Sweet, huh?

  17. oat

      P.S. I took care of Fran a long time ago. She ain’t home no mo’.

  18. oat

      P.S. I took care of Fran a long time ago. She ain’t home no mo’.

  19. oat

      Dov Charney told me that now that the publicity-getting-for-everyone lawsuit with Woody Allen is settled, American Apparel’s going after Tao’s profits & advance on his novella under NYC’s Son of Sam Law. Another lawsuit means more publicity for everyone!!!

      Damn.

  20. oat

      Dov Charney told me that now that the publicity-getting-for-everyone lawsuit with Woody Allen is settled, American Apparel’s going after Tao’s profits & advance on his novella under NYC’s Son of Sam Law. Another lawsuit means more publicity for everyone!!!

      Damn.

  21. Nathan Tyree

      seriously? are they really suing him?

  22. Nathan Tyree

      seriously? are they really suing him?

  23. james yeh

      heh

  24. james yeh

      heh

  25. larry

      man i’ve been trying to share that oozinator video for years, hope tao can spread it…

  26. larry

      man i’ve been trying to share that oozinator video for years, hope tao can spread it…

  27. larry

      man i’ve been trying to share that oozinator video for years, hope tao can spread it…

  28. larry

      man i’ve been trying to share that oozinator video for years, hope tao can spread it…

  29. Adam Robinson

      Good one Jimmy.

  30. Adam Robinson

      Good one Jimmy.