The Internet is not real

Posted on 01/17/2012 by

I have 8 minutes until my lunch break is over. The internet is not real. It’s information, distorted. I like reading ‘literature’ type things online. They seem kind of real. I look at people I actually hangout with on Facebook and think, “If I wasn’t friends with this person, their facebook page would say they have nothing much in common with me, mostly.” And these are people I have the greatest connection with. 5 minutes left. Sometimes I see photos online of people “living the life” with the perfect outfit, outing, profile shot, but it’s all a front. In person, people smell, their body language comes across–and this speaks more than whatever is presented of themselves online. We’re animals who can communicate in different ways, and I think the internet is great for sharing information, but what of the information is real? Some sites you trust. Some sites you trust just repeated information that isn’t verified. This makes the internet pointless in many ways. Like this post. Opinion is opinion and observations are overflowing in a market with no demand for an opinion or observation. Live in the mountains without wi-fi unless you want to know about a movie time, or want to google a question and be redirected to a yahoo answers discussion board. 1 minute left. No, actually no more time.

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Metazen published “Miso Soup” by Brian McElmurry

Posted on 01/04/2012 by

Metazen.com published a story of mine written in the 3rd person with simple sentences. It’s called Miso Soup (This is the link).

Update: Seth Siegal had a story published on Metazen, a year ago today, actually, weirdly enough. Here is the link. I like it.

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Steve Roggenbuck on Branding

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Today on the Internet (Skateboarding & xTx)

Posted on 12/20/2011 by

Rob Dyrdek–before he was a funny ass MTV reality star was a well-respected funny professional skateboarder (still pro)–flipped a car like a kickflip on a skateboard. Watch the video.

Also Target and the Shaun White Collection stole a skateboard artist Michael Sieben‘s style and design. Read the article on Vice.com.

If you made it this far on this post, please read this short-short story by xTx, who is a pseudonymed writer of well-respect. Click for the lit(erature).

Merry Christmas to all :-)

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Today (and something else) on Internet-Literature!

Posted on 12/16/2011 by

Steve Roggenbuck made a book of poems. And then made macros, which are image poems (an image with a poem over it). He spoke at Duke University about internet poetry. Now he’s making video poems. He’s pretty awesome. He did a video for HTML Giant, a cool literary website ran mostly, I believe, by Blake Butler, a well respected and published novelist. HTML Giant is running a ToBS (Tournament of Bullshit) where they do a sports-like 16 bracket contest with things like Steve’s bracket blog “declaring ‘___ is dead’ vs. horny middle aged bolding poetry professor on campus.’ I would suggest clicking on the link and reading it and reading more of the tournament of BS posts on HTML Giant. They’re really post-modern, funny and smart. But here is the video that accompanies Steve’s HTML Post. He also has more videos on Youtube, which you should watch. Here is the vid. Get boosted. Liev yr life. Liveing the dream (Steve’s sayings, misspelling voice). He also dropped out of his history masters program and is going to travel the country and make video poems and such. Lieev the dream BB <3.

Also Jordan Castro had a peom and a story about horniness and other things which is so good. Read it here. Jordan Castro is a 18 yr old Muumuu House writer, which is a company/website ran by Tao Lin and is the umbrella of a group of really cool writers. They brought out 3 books, including the one by Megan Boyle, which is really awesome. I got it a few weeks back in the mail for $12, shipped from Tao’s apartment in Brooklyn.

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This week on Internet-Literature!

Posted on 12/15/2011 by

That exclamation point is unironic. Or is it? From what I’ve gathered from my countless hours of looking at the internet while the copier spins in circles and heats toner onto the paper is that the internet is ironic. This observation is already old because we all know this. And any observation that is older than ~ 3 days is old per internet standards. We all know this. (Update: This 1st paragraph sucks! Except the 3rd sentence.)

Do you know about Lana Del Rey? I think she’s British, and was living in Brooklyn and has a record coming out. This song is amazing. This like happened a month ago, so it may no longer be relevant, but makes me feel funny like when I climb the rope in gym class. 

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“That’s Racist!” – The Drink

Posted on 11/22/2011 by

On Sunday afternoon, I poured vodka over ice and added soda water. I noticed the grape juice on top of the fridge and added just a splash, for flavor. Then I thought, “That’s racist! That’s what I’ll call this, ‘That’s Racist!’” I laughed inwardly. I also considered “Grape Drank” and “Sugar-Water-Purple” ala Dave Chappelle. This is an inside joke with my girlfriend Sarah and my coworker Elsie. Elsie is a 55 yr-old black woman from the south. She is a little racist, and will complain how people will always say about things, “That’s racist.” So she’ll be going off on some quasi-racist rant–she calls it “telling it like it is”–and I’ll joke, “That’s racist.” Or Sarah will say something, that’s not racist (and Elsie doesn’t have to say anything even close to racist, just about race, and I’ll say “That’s racist.”) But I say it gutterally and with a little southern accent. It could be said I say it racistly. I also made cheesy grits for breakfast, and I called them “girts” like a southern rapper.

“That’s Racist!” The drink is this: ice, vodka, soda water and a little bit of grape juice. Or you could use the 50 cent vitamin water, instead of grape juice, and you could call it, “That’s Gangster!”

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