13 Comments

1. October 24th, 2014 / 11:41 pm michaelleung—

   what noooooooo

2. October 24th, 2014 / 11:59 pm Matthew Simmons—

   bye, pumpkin

3. October 25th, 2014 / 12:46 am traynor—

   dark fucking wizard indeed. see you on the flip side.

4. October 25th, 2014 / 1:09 am Garett Strickland—

   In celebration of whatever becomes.

   http://vimeo.com/70142693

5. October 25th, 2014 / 2:03 am Mike Young—

   damn, i am late as usual and missed the chance to make a goodbye post! i suppose the thing is i couldn’t really think of anything special to say that anyone else wasn’t saying better.

   so thank you to blake and gene for the beautiful mess. inbetwixt all the lameness, for sure for sure, it was so nice to hear people come out of the woodwork and say the good things this place meant and did for them. and so strange to think that 2008 was 6years ago.

   in honor of the end, here’s the first chat i ever had with blake about HTMLGIANT, when it was still a twinkle, on 9/29/08:

   4:48 PM me: what is htmlgiant?
   Blake: dis new jam
   me and gene morgan started
   4:49 PM hpefully to become like pitchfork for indie press
   me: that’s awesome dude
   Blake: it should be fun
   me: it looks exciting
   Blake: if you ever wanna write some little updates
   me: is it thru blogspot?
   yeah i can do shit
   i can keep everyone posted on the hot northampton literature scene
   ha
   4:50 PM Blake: pure sex
   me: maybe i will just post updates about that
   that will be my job
   talking about when writers have sex
   4:51 PM Blake: hot shit
   4:52 PM yeah we’d been talking about doing a site that focuses on indie and internet writers more
   like bookslut but focused and not about big houses
   and more hip
   4:53 PM and now finally doing it
   me: excellent
   good work, sir
   Blake: hopefully
   4:55 PM me: what else have you been up to?
   Blake: hm, um, just writig a lot
   as usual
   thats about it
   me: jah
   Blake: nothign to onew
   4:56 PM me: i hear ya
   Blake: trying not to drown
   there is no gas here
   so its hard to do anything
   4:57 PM me: yeah, i heard about that shit
   crazy
   Blake: pretty fun
   4:58 PM how bout u
   me: just same ole shit
   4:59 PM teachin
   writing
   i’m working on a big story, maybe novel sized ish
   i’m 30 pages into it
   it’s fat
   5:00 PM Blake: dope
   i like the longs
   5:01 PM me: yeah, it’s fun to write long riffs on things without worrying about compression etc.
   i’m trying to be diligent, keep it up
   5:02 PM there are a lot of angles to write from, like different characters etc, so maybe that will allow me not to get bored
   sam pink posted an email interview with one of my students on his blog
   they have to review a chapbook and she chose his
   woo boyo
   5:03 PM Blake: oh yeah i saw that
   me: i told her i wasn’t responsible for any interaction she had with any of those people hahahaha
   Blake: yeah good diea
   idea

6. October 25th, 2014 / 10:52 am xtx—

   thank YOU.

7. October 25th, 2014 / 11:39 am ZZZZZIPPP—

   THANK YOU GENE

8. October 25th, 2014 / 12:20 pm pr—

   how many real human hours of enjoyment did i get lurking here and reading what i found lurking here? thanks for being.

9. October 25th, 2014 / 1:11 pm A D Jameson—

   Gene, who do I email if I want to post something here? Please get back to me ASAP, thanks, Adam

10. October 25th, 2014 / 1:14 pm A D Jameson—

    Also, WordPress 4.0 is available! I’ve been meaning to notify you about that.

11. October 25th, 2014 / 2:06 pm Bigplatts—

    Aw man, so sad to see this place. Probably one of my favorite places on the internet.

    One day some famous writer will name check this place in an essay and we’ll all have fond memories.

12. October 28th, 2014 / 3:27 pm Brooks Sterritt—

    so long, and thanks for all the sparkles

13. October 28th, 2014 / 7:51 pm Richard White—

    thank you guys, you have taught me so much.