The best HTMLGIANT posts as chosen by you the readers of HTMLGIANT or at least some of you
Last November, I put out a call for the best HTMLGIANT posts. Folks responded, and then the thread devolved into a perplexing debate about Noam Chomsky and Gilles Deleuze. Nonetheless I combed through all of it to bring you the results (which I think especially appropriate now, after No Comments Week).
By far, the most votes went to:
Elisa Gabbert & Mike Young: Moves in Contemporary Poetry
In fact, it was the only post that received multiple votes!
And here are the rest, presented alphabetically:
A D Jameson:
A Dozen Dominants: The Current State of US Indy Lit
Amy McDaniel:
Blake Butler:
Shit I Don’t Like About Writers & Writing
The Myth of the Human w/r/t David Foster Wallace’s ‘Mister Squishy’
22 Things I Learned from Submitting Writing
Chelsea Martin:
Christopher Higgs:
Against Answers: A Conversation with Kyle Minor
What is Experimental Literature? {Five Questions with Miranda Mellis}
Impossible Mike:
An Issue of Desire in its Relation to the Textual Subject/Object
Expanded Literature Part 1: Internet Literature
THE ZERO-DEGREE NOISELESSNESS OF DEATH: LECTIO I-IV
THE ZERO DEGREE NOISELESSNESS OF DEATH: LECTIO V-VIII
TOP TEN INDIE-LIT DICKS WE’D RATHER SEE THAN JORDAN CASTRO’S
Jimmy Chen:
Justin Taylor:
Tables of Contents for The Quarterly, issue 1 – 25
J Wang:
Lineage: justifiable matricide vs. I mothered you hoes
On hand jobs, AWP, the internet, truck drivers, and embodied living
Ken Baumann:
The Beginner’s Guide to Deleuze
Michael Kimball:
Guest Lecture Series (1): Openings
Guest Lecture #2: Keeping Going
Guest Lecture #3: The Rough Parts
Guest Lecture #4: Story and Plot
Guest Lecture #5: Language and Sentences
Mike Young:
Magazine Databases-Magazine Debasers
There was also an impassioned plea for the Boobs Friday archive, which you can find by searching the site for “boobs.”
Finally, for added value (as well as comparison’s sake), here are the 50 most popular posts in HTMLGIANT history (i.e., the ones that have received the most page views):
- J Wang: The expurgation of the clitoris in the diary of Anne Frank
- Jimmy Chen: Expired Domain Girl
- Amy McDaniel: Found-ish Poetry: The Sorted Books Project
- Amy McDaniel: Grammar Challenge!
- Jimmy Chen: The Painter
- Amy McDaniel: Grammar Challenge: Answers and Explanations
- Blake Butler: Visceral Readings: The Sluts
- Jimmy Chen: Sartre publishes ‘The Wall’ on his facebook wall
- Jimmy Chen: Raskolnikov’s inbox
- Jimmy Chen: Boob Friday Halloween Special Haiku Contest
- Michael Schaub: Power Quote: W. S. Merwin
- Roxane Gay: Another Random List of Things
- Blake Butler: Mike Tyson on Writing
- Blake Butler: The Myth of the Human w/r/t David Foster Wallace’s ‘Mister Squishy’
- Jimmy Chen: Author venn diagram
- Blake Butler: 22 Things I Learned from Submitting Writing
- Mike Young: Moves in Contemporary Poetry
- Blake Butler: 25 Important Books of the 00s
- Brian Foley: 25 Important Books of Poetry of the 00s
- pr: ‘Parker’s Back’ by Flannery O’Connor
- Blake Butler: HTMLGIANT’s 400 Under 1
- Lily Hoang: pla(y)giarism versus plagiarism
- Blake Butler: Boobs Friday: Noy Holland
- Reynard Seifert: Tentacles Are Hair You Wear On Your Spleen, Ideally
- pr: You want ice cream and bags of chips and chocolate and blood and guts and drugs and sex and cigarettes
- Jimmy Chen: A Book Lover’s Guide to IKEA seating
- Blake Butler: Gucci Mane vs. Young Jeezy
- Justin Taylor: Hey, want to be in a book? … Get in the chair.
- Brandon Scott Gorrell, Ryan Call, & Gene Morgan: A Review of Reviews of Shoplifting From American Apparel
- Roxane Gay: The Price of Revelation
- Blake Butler: DFW Praise Compendium
- Jordan Castro: Some Thoughts Re Muumuu House
- Blake Butler: James Joyce does not exist
- Blake Butler: HTMLGIANT’s Tournament of Bookshit
- Roxane Gay: A Profound Sense of Absence
- Christopher Higgs: BlazeVOX Goes Vanity Press?
- Justin Taylor: A Million Little Top 3′s: The 2009 List of Lists
- Michael Schaub: The 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature: Let’s Bet Cash Money on This
- Nick Antosca: REASONS YOU SHOULD NOT DATE WRITERS (IF YOU ARE A WRITER)
- Blake Butler: BOOBS FRIDAY; Kendra is going as full erections across America
- Blake Butler: 12 New Tao Lin
- Blake Butler: Famous Authors ‘Nude’
- Christopher Higgs: Art, Crime, Beauty, Murder
- pr: Sonnets for Saturday
- Christopher Higgs: BlazeVOX Update
- Roxane Gay: Seriously, Though… Some Thoughts on Writers Who Take Themselves Seriously
- Matthew Simmons: Tin House
- Roxane Gay: Taking No For An Answer: Some New Thoughts on Self-Publishing
- Jimmy Chen: God damn it
- Blake Butler: Everything I Submitted from 2006-2008 & What Happened To It
… That’s out of the roughly 7000 posts that have been published since 26 September 2008, 11:38am. (If you want the actual numbers, you’ll have to buy me something.)
Enjoy!
Tags: htmlgiant, the best post
So many Mikes!
the infamous wigger chick
does anyone have screencaps
When I was in college, my social circle had “too many Mikes,” so each one got an adjectival nickname. The only one I remember now is “Evil Mike.” Which is what I think of whenever I see “Impossible Mike.”
Srsly tho: isn’t Michael the most common name for white guys born in the 1970s and 80s?
wow, nobody voted for “mean week is your week too, I guess”?
It always makes me think of “endless Mike” from pete and pete
Just a friendly reminder that the marvelous Mike Young wrote, in the winning post: “Many thanks to Elisa Gabbert for the bulk of the work on this list.” So, yes, I will be telling my grandchildren that I wrote the best post on HTML Giant. Thanks guys!
Just a friendly reminder that the marvelous Mike Young wrote, in the
winning post: “Many thanks to Elisa Gabbert for the bulk of the work on
this list.” So, yes, I will be telling my grandchildren that I wrote the
best post on HTML Giant. Thanks guys!
P.S. I have no idea who Alex_Worthing is. Feel free to delete the first version of that comment.
yep, as elisa points out, the moves were a collaborative dance compilation infomercial with two people hosting. much thanks to everybody for the lurv.
I can’t wait to hear how much we get paid.
If they did, I didn’t see it.
“[D]ebate about Noam Chomsky and Gilles Deleuze”??