Interview with Literary Death Match, Nov. '08 Winner Tao Lin

me:  did you feel normal during the literary death match?

 Tao:  more nervous than normal

 me:  what did your friends say to you before the death match?

 Tao:  i'm going to buy [keith gessen's book] if it's under $8

 me:  how did you prepare for the match?

 Tao:  i put the poems in a file and printed the file, i read the poems on the screen in my head while using an online stop watch i found and approximated 5-6 minutes worth of poems, at the venue i crossed out two poems on the paper and said 'i won't read that poem' about another poem

 me:  do you feel emo right now?

 Tao:  i do not feel emo right now

 me:  congrats on your victory

i might blog this

 Tao:  thank you, good, if you post it and write 'literary death match' and 'tao lin' in the post it will show up on the link i made so people can click it, giving you more hits

 me:  i know, bitch.

haha jk

Tao:  fuck youm don't take your bad attitude out on me

jk

(Tao Lin: http://reader-of-depressing-books.blogspot.com)

(LDM: http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/LDM_Home.html)

100th Post & Some Things

i would like to 'commemorate' our 100th post by saying congrats to OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!

i just paid some bills online. i am completely solvent, save my student loan which i am paying off gradually.

my work on the short story involving characters named Chet Atkins and William Huddie Ledbetter is currently on hold. i have edited it down some, but feel the amount of words used is not proportionate to the 'essence of the story', which i have settle on. i am going to print the story from microsoft word and edit it that way. this method helps me edit for some reason.

i am reading A Fable by faulkner. i am working on poems, using google docs.

jj posted some of my 'artwork'.

i want to expedite work on The Farside's first print version. i am planning a facebook 'call for submissions'. my original 'call for submissions' didn't 'work'. i want the focus of the first issue to be 'nature' or 'escapism'.

working 40 hrs a week distracts me from creating 'art'. not only during those 40 hrs but also the hrs surrounding them.

Late Halloween Edition Post