promote my career for me
here are some things you can do for me
things will be done
i would like a large amount of people that i don't want to communicate with, don't want to think about or acknowledge, and don't already know to promote my career very hard for me, so that i can socialize half the day if i want to and sometimes lay in bed when i wake in the afternoon and listen to music for two hours or read a book sometimes and still have large amounts of time every day to focus on my novel (5-7 uninterrupted hours); with a steady cash flow i will focus more on projects and things that contribute to projects
this is like a fellowship or grant but i'm being direct
this is like an honest version of the guggenheim that also eliminates the money and application parts of it, which makes me generally 'good' in your view, since you are probably 'against' capitalism and having to apply for things (applications lead to choices based not on concrete reality but on abstractions like race, etc., maybe)
read intern #108's blog, i like it
thank you for promoting my career for me
i can't really think of anything else that can be done1. review my books on amazon; in the review tell them they can buy the books from independent places and link to this page; the reviews should be funny and readable and it is not required the books be mentioned, only that you give the book 5 stars
2. blog about my books even if you hate me; hatred moves units, it distracts from existential despair and loneliness when people type a lot of abstractions to try to defeat someone else's likes and dislikes, and people get 'addicted' to that, and it will not lead to violence since it is on the internet, and on blogs, and about books, so i think it is okay (this is what happens in the major print media like new york times, new york review of books, n+1, etc., except if you do it for me you can have at least some self-awareness of what i just typed about the function of this)
3. give my wikipedia page a 'contents' box to make it seem more professional and think of ways how i can get linked on boing boing or similar sites, they get something like 100 times more hits than gawker, i need to 'move beyond' gawker maybe
4. create 'inside jokes' with friends where you just keep saying my name or 'invoking my existence' somehow in a way that is pointless and then becomes funny; for some reason this works, if you keep talking about one person who you don't know at all, or only know a little, eventually it will become 'fun,' i don't know, maybe this only works for some people and maybe it won't work on me since i'm publicly self-aware or something
5. *long term* if you are in high school right now go to college, major in journalism, get internships at professional places, work very hard, get a position at the new yorker or something and network a lot then leave and start your own thing and write about me *long term*
things will be done
i would like a large amount of people that i don't want to communicate with, don't want to think about or acknowledge, and don't already know to promote my career very hard for me, so that i can socialize half the day if i want to and sometimes lay in bed when i wake in the afternoon and listen to music for two hours or read a book sometimes and still have large amounts of time every day to focus on my novel (5-7 uninterrupted hours); with a steady cash flow i will focus more on projects and things that contribute to projects
this is like a fellowship or grant but i'm being direct
this is like an honest version of the guggenheim that also eliminates the money and application parts of it, which makes me generally 'good' in your view, since you are probably 'against' capitalism and having to apply for things (applications lead to choices based not on concrete reality but on abstractions like race, etc., maybe)
read intern #108's blog, i like it
thank you for promoting my career for me




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I'll help link to your blog =)
i do not want to be acknowledged or communicated with, but i support the promotion of your career and am now participating in furthering it. i am not sure why but i take what you have to say very seriously and think it is definitely "professional"
i respect what you write because you respect every potential reader. you do not try to sell boring babyboomer targeted poems about weekend mornings in your berkshire country house (this is what i think of when i think of poems in the new yorker at present). these along with many other pieces are insulting because the a reader is supposed to accept the story or poem or whatever as entertaining AND respectable when really it is neither. you are straightforward, exciting to read and do not waste time on space filler words or thoughts.
wow, i think that is enough to start an amazon review.
i guess that's it.
thanks you eu
thank you modern safari
good job
I met you at AWP in February and blogged about both your books and the experience of meeting you:
http://www.scrawlers.com/blog/2008/02/03/my-reflections-on-awp/
http://www.scrawlers.com/blog/2008/02/05/books-i-picked-up-at-awp-part-i/
good job nate
you should promote your career like goldenpalace DOT com. they pay people to streak sporting events and/or the olympics with their site painted on people, same with on boxers during their fights, they buy wierd things on eBay for rediculous amounts of money... they get a lot of PR for that..
you should do crazy stuff around NY or have interns do that to market your name
Tao,
I flipping promoted the hell out of you. My three friends and my mom will totally read you now.
http://amandapants.blogspot.com/2008/03/certain-number-like-big-number-of.html
ryan, i'll ask melville house about paying someone to streak at the next AWP, BEA, and dennis cooper reading
apants, thank you for your support
Since when did you start typing all in caps? i visited your blog a couple weeks ago and this wasn't the case...I can't remember if I already commented to tell you this, but I saw your book of poems in the store and read some of them. I liked the ToC best, it works well as a poem. If you think of it as a poem, then all the rest of the poem become notes, which I often enjoy more than the poems in books.
i will do the amazon review
i used to have a review of bed on amazon that said bed was too abstract
i thought it was funny to say that
i think i deleted it
i will do new, better reviews
I confess; I got your book listed at Guerilla Poetics, by placing a broadsheet in your book in a Seattle book store. I was supposed to place it in a Hemingway or a Ginsberg. Now you owe me big time.
http://www.guerillapoetics.org/
hi nikkita,
it changed to all caps a few days ago, you are kelly's friend, i remember you commenting a while ago
thank you colin,
i you review all the books i will send you cognitive behavioral therapy for free when it comes out, i think you should review my books like you thought it was a mattress or something, or copy and paste someone's review of a mattress into a review of my book, i don't know
hi victor,
thank you, good job
I'll give you a review on Amazon.
Good luck!
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