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THE 8TMLGIANT READING SERIES UPDATE: March 8th in Amherst & April 8th in Seattle
WHAT DID YOU JUST DO THERE IS THERE MORE THERE (THERE IS CONTROVERSY)
So yeah. Double you tee eff?
Once upon a time, Matthew Simmons sent an internal HTMLGIANT email talking about an April 8th reading in Seattle with hot licks Chelsea Martin, Brandon Scott Gorrell, Zachary Schomburg, Emily Kendal Frey, and Frayn Masters. He mused that we should have some kind of official HTMLGIANT reading series. Lo and behold, I’d already set up a March 8th NOÖ Journal reading. If you can tie your shoes, you can probably figure out that we decided to knight the 8th of every month as the official HTMLGIANT Reading Day and call our Reading Series 8TMLGIANT. If you’ve got a lie detector strapped to your scroll knobs, you may have already figured out that I actually just invented that name on my own. So take all proclamations of officiousness, like always, as just good offense, and take the new 8TMLGIANT Reading Series as a sort of shotgun hike for live literature done by people who spend a lot of their eyes on the computer. Go forth and sprint. CONTROVERSY: Kevin Sampsell thinks 8TMLGIANT is dorky.
Wow, what do you guys do, just sit around cumming on each others’ faces or what? Jesus Christ. Serious. Not serious. Calm down. Speed up. I have a face. It’s being nostalgic right now. Do you see it? Do any of you actually write, like, real shit?
I’m happy to report that Blake Butler, Christopher Cheney, Claire Donato, Rachel B. Glaser, and Bradley Sands all right “reel shit” and you can sea them March Aeth at 6PM in Amherst, MA at the Blaak Zeep. Sew dew. Eye right reel shit two, butt that evening I’ll just be wearing a cowboy hat, which doesn’t quite count. Then come see Blake, Claire, and me in Providence the next day. The plan is: so many events we turn into static.
Tags: 8TMLGIANT, amherst, Future Tense Books, NOÖ Journal, portland, providence, seattle
‘i hate this reading’
‘i hate this reading’
Boo! I wish I could go to this. Why isn’t Amherst a neighborhood in Brooklyn?
Boo! I wish I could go to this. Why isn’t Amherst a neighborhood in Brooklyn?
That reading should be a traveling show. Bring the guy from the flier. He looks like he knows how to party.
That reading should be a traveling show. Bring the guy from the flier. He looks like he knows how to party.
happy days. can’t wait to see people who make it up here. justin, i agree: amherst should be a neighborhood in brooklyn. the place where all the farms are.
happy days. can’t wait to see people who make it up here. justin, i agree: amherst should be a neighborhood in brooklyn. the place where all the farms are.
good job mike
good job mike
I’m going to the Providence version of this.
I’m going to the Providence version of this.
aw man i’d definitely go, but i don’t leave my house anymore. it’d be neat to hear and see your faces. i hope it’s a good night… you damn bipedal freaks of nature!
aw man i’d definitely go, but i don’t leave my house anymore. it’d be neat to hear and see your faces. i hope it’s a good night… you damn bipedal freaks of nature!
keith- i rarely leave my house either. but you have to go to this! i want you to go.
your wanting me to go makes me even sadder that go i can not. my health is just too shot. i use a mobility scooter just to get around the home, and when i do use my legs it increases the chronic pain i’m in. it’s been several years since i’ve been further than 10mins from home, 45mins is just too far away. there’s other issues too. i have more issues than time magazine.
someday i’ll get out. until then i have the noosphere of historical and electronic networks to jack me into other lifelines. such as yourself.
your wanting me to go makes me even sadder that go i can not. my health is just too shot. i use a mobility scooter just to get around the home, and when i do use my legs it increases the chronic pain i’m in. it’s been several years since i’ve been further than 10mins from home, 45mins is just too far away. there’s other issues too. i have more issues than time magazine.
someday i’ll get out. until then i have the noosphere of historical and electronic networks to jack me into other lifelines. such as yourself.
high five for the noosphere reference, keith! that is where the magazine’s name comes from, obviously
maybe we will tape the reading and broadcast it on HTMLGIANT
i have the train reading coming in the mail too
noosphere of video communication
high five for the noosphere reference, keith! that is where the magazine’s name comes from, obviously
maybe we will tape the reading and broadcast it on HTMLGIANT
i have the train reading coming in the mail too
noosphere of video communication
Oh, Keith, I didn’t know your health issues affected your mobility. I’m sorry, man. I just meant you are a nice part of the htmlgiant community and I would have warm feelings if you were in the same room with those peeps.
mike – i love the word noosphere. the image i think of is a biodome, instead of glass the dome is made of the membrane of the ego and the thought-contents are living organisms.
any videos would be wicked cool. from one micro-noosphere to another, i will nurture your high five and cultivate five more from each finger.
pr – it is very exciting to be thought as part of a community. i think i just creamed myself. or maybe pissed myself. i dunno. it’s hard to tell these days. either way my shorts are warm.
mike – i love the word noosphere. the image i think of is a biodome, instead of glass the dome is made of the membrane of the ego and the thought-contents are living organisms.
any videos would be wicked cool. from one micro-noosphere to another, i will nurture your high five and cultivate five more from each finger.
pr – it is very exciting to be thought as part of a community. i think i just creamed myself. or maybe pissed myself. i dunno. it’s hard to tell these days. either way my shorts are warm.
How did you get this before me?
updating this post with more
none of us will be remembered anyway
let’s just have some fun
golly
Hedonism is the new Worry
high five back at keith. membrane of the ego.
SAMPSELL!!!! IN MY OFFICE!!!! NOW!!!!
How did you get this before me?
updating this post with more
none of us will be remembered anyway
let’s just have some fun
golly
Hedonism is the new Worry
high five back at keith. membrane of the ego.
SAMPSELL!!!! IN MY OFFICE!!!! NOW!!!!
i was talking to chelsea last night on AIM… you should repost this around the time of april 8th.. that’s more practical, but i just wanted to update it for the march 8th one and because i have “combine everything into one post” syndrome
i was talking to chelsea last night on AIM… you should repost this around the time of april 8th.. that’s more practical, but i just wanted to update it for the march 8th one and because i have “combine everything into one post” syndrome
i’ll be there.
justin just come to mount holyoke, you can sleep on my couch, er, uhm, floor.
what time is the Amherst reading. i’d like to go.
what time is the Amherst reading. i’d like to go.
6PM
6PM
Matthew, I’m sorry that Blake or whomever beat us to the poster making. But at least our posters don’t say 8TML. I think that’s just plain dorky. C’mon, people. Let’s think about the brand here. It’s a sign of quality and future good memories. Like when pr and Barry go on their HTMLGiant World Tour 2011.
Matthew, I’m sorry that Blake or whomever beat us to the poster making. But at least our posters don’t say 8TML. I think that’s just plain dorky. C’mon, people. Let’s think about the brand here. It’s a sign of quality and future good memories. Like when pr and Barry go on their HTMLGiant World Tour 2011.
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Great work! I also have my own blog I just find it hard to write quality content like this.
I guess I really don’t have the time.
Great work! I also have my own blog I just find it hard to write quality content like this.
I guess I really don’t have the time.