524.24  14.78(2.90%) : APPLE STOCK ABOVE $500 USD. Is this the source of its poetic rise? The proto-cyber-facism of Italy (1909) is beautiful for investors and industrial designers, should we writers be inspired as well?

La Rochefoucauld’s Maxims are tweets. Pascal’s Pensées are tweets. Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations are tweets. Wittgenstein kept his tweets in a box. “It is easy to imagine a language consisting only of orders and reports in battle,” says Wittgenstein. Would you retweet that?

Derek White, publisher of Calamari Press, writes beautifully about the operations of the press in its eighth year.

Edward Mullany is the greatest living writer of the 20th century.

Whenever I see people talk about how they hate two spaces after a period, I kind of wonder what the big deal is because with Find/Replace it takes less than 15 seconds to fix in Word or InDesign. Over at Dark Sky, Gabe Durham walks us through this complicated procedure.

“Poetry is nothing but a certain astonishment before the world and the means for this astonishment.”

Andre du Bouchet, 1954

So Ben Gazzara and Zalman King both just died on the same day? Ouch.

Tell me the last time you quit a job. That’s a tough thing. You have to look at yourself and suck up and do it. Paint it for me. Then you must  look at “that person” when you quit. Tell me how/why. I bet there are “hell yes I quit” and “why did I quit?” and the other thing, the space between the two.

Tell me how you felt. I mean this could be good. I’d like to hear your stories. I will NOT rip them off for my fiction, until I DO.

BONUS: Ever been fired? I was fired twice. Both lovely stories.

Bateau Press is sorry they lost all of your shit. It happens.

Is it the fall of the roman empire for litblogs? Has the empire already fallen? When did it fall?