March 2nd, 2009 / 6:14 pm
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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.

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42 Comments

  1. Ryan Call

      ‘i hate this reading’

  2. Ryan Call

      ‘i hate this reading’

  3. Justin Taylor

      Boo! I wish I could go to this. Why isn’t Amherst a neighborhood in Brooklyn?

  4. Justin Taylor

      Boo! I wish I could go to this. Why isn’t Amherst a neighborhood in Brooklyn?

  5. Matt

      That reading should be a traveling show. Bring the guy from the flier. He looks like he knows how to party.

  6. Matt

      That reading should be a traveling show. Bring the guy from the flier. He looks like he knows how to party.

  7. jensen

      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.

  8. jensen

      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.

  9. colin

      good job mike

  10. colin

      good job mike

  11. Brian Foley

      I’m going to the Providence version of this.

  12. Brian Foley

      I’m going to the Providence version of this.

  13. keith n b

      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!

  14. keith n b

      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!

  15. pr

      keith- i rarely leave my house either. but you have to go to this! i want you to go.

  16. keith n b

      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.

  17. keith n b

      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.

  18. mike

      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

  19. mike

      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

  20. pr

      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.

  21. keith n b

      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.

  22. keith n b

      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.

  23. Matthew Simmons

      How did you get this before me?

  24. Mike Young

      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.

  25. Matthew Simmons

      SAMPSELL!!!! IN MY OFFICE!!!! NOW!!!!

  26. Matthew Simmons

      How did you get this before me?

  27. Mike Young

      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.

  28. Matthew Simmons

      SAMPSELL!!!! IN MY OFFICE!!!! NOW!!!!

  29. Mike Young

      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

  30. Mike Young

      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

  31. Soffi Stiassni

      i’ll be there.

  32. Soffi Stiassni

      justin just come to mount holyoke, you can sleep on my couch, er, uhm, floor.

  33. Shane Jones

      what time is the Amherst reading. i’d like to go.

  34. Shane Jones

      what time is the Amherst reading. i’d like to go.

  35. Mike Young

      6PM

  36. Mike Young

      6PM

  37. KevinS

      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.

  38. KevinS

      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.

  39. Akeem Watkins

      I don

  40. Akeem Watkins

      I don

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