vice published my ~5000-word story
titled relationship story
- books
- taipei (2013)
- richard yates (2010)
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- shoplifting from american apparel (2009)
- cognitive-behavioral therapy (2008)
- eeeee eee eeee (2007)
- bed (2007)
- you are a little bit happier than i am (2006)
- ebooks
- hikikomori with ellen kennedy (2007)
- today the sky is blue and white with bright blue spots and a small pale moon and i will destroy our relationship today (2006)
- this emotion was a little e-book (2006)
- fiction
- jawbreaker's major-label album
- relationship story
- we will drink our coffee and complete our novels and lay in sunlight and sit in darkness
- the 'can't concentrate' manatee
- the nearly-severely depressed bird
- the existentially fucked megamouth shark
- the disappointed ant
- the vegan muffin
- the gay stepdad
- lisa jarnot
- love is a thing on sale for more money than there exists
- leftover crack in red hook
- sasquatch
- october
- friday
- essays
- the future of the novel
- koko, the 'talking' gorilla
- 'almost transparent blue' by ryu murakami
- 'honored guest' by joy williams
- 'woodcutters' by thomas bernhard
- how to be considerate on the internet
- how to give a reading on mushrooms
- 'great american novelist'
- 10 blogging platforms
- 3 movies i liked
- 3 documentaries by werner herzog
- 'best of young american novelists 2'
- 'kmart realism'
- exactly what i want
- what i can tell you about seattle based on the people i've met from there
- the levels of greatness a fiction writer can achieve in america
- good/bad in art
- poems/relationships
- the word 'nice'
- cho seung-hui's killing rampage
- accounts
- being arrested for 'trespassing' nyu's bookstore
- the great american dialogue about the new yorker's '20 under 40' list
- marina abramovic, 'the staring woman at moma'
- 'audrey' from 'shoplifting from american apparel'
- germany
- sex after not seeing each other for a few days
- reading at 'elliot bay'
- other
- 'the great gatsby' livetweet
- mushrooms liveblog
- 'the hobbit' livetweet
- what i typed on mushrooms on october 23 2011
- top 10 reasons you should read this article
- top 10 unpublished articles of 2011
- top 10 worst fruits to get blowjobs from
- top 10 animals that don't have asses
- top 5 low-level conspiracies jesse eisenberg should accidentally discover
- poetry
- the earliest use of the word ‘sarcastic’
- i see cupcakes exploding
- i was in japan in 1991 or 1992 looking out a window
- i feel weird, like my favorite book is a novelization of 'metroid'
- i felt happy without drinking coffee today
- opposite of song of myself
- i know at all times that in four hours i will feel completely different
- room night
- that was bad; i shouldn't have done that
- the mfa in hamsters
- walking home in cold weather
- i will like the things that i dislike, hate, or am indifferent towards
- in manhattan on 29th street
- music writing
- re 'favorite music of 2012'
- re 'the majority of people are decoys'
- re 'kicked it in the sun'
- playlist re 'richard yates'
- playlist re 'shoplifting from american apparel'
- playlist re 'cognitive-behavioral therapy'
- playlist re 'eeeee eee eeee'
- playlist re 'bed'
- playlist re 'you are a little bit happier than i am'
- charts/graphs
- the contemporary short story
- 'kmart realism' contextualized
- interviews
- sam pink
- ben lerner
- jeff rosenstock
- stza crack
- malcolm gladwell
- tony o'neill
- noah cicero
- chelsey minnis
- michael earl craig
- mazie louise montgomery
- deb olin unferth
- todd hasak-lowy
- matthew rohrer
- joy williams
- stacey levine
- chris killen
- stephen elliott
- stephen dixon
23 Comments:
sweet, good job
have periodically thought about "moving through the universe" instead of "walking/driving/doing whatever i'm doing" since i first read
@che sweet, hope you like thinking that
@tao i do
I like this very much. Awesome Tao.
this is the most ambitious thing you've done in a while.
@che sewet
@dj sweet, i'm glad you like it
@justin sweet
reaching places on the wave nobody's surfed before.
creating the craft necessary to reach them.
visual representation: http://youtu.be/nn5lGcsvVc8
Having recently passed the 7 year mark in our relationship, this story has allowed me to reflect on how we got this far--along with a few other thinks. Well done! Also, I agree with che: "moving through the universe" has given me pause on occasion.
The illustrations by Anthony Cudahy are great. I look forward to more from both of you.
Cheers!
idk tao...i just dont know
i think this is maybe the best thing you've written.
oh my god
brilliant
@david sweet, listening to the video now as i type this
@psychedelicatessin sweet, 7 years, good job
@fritz can you elaborate
@anonymous sweet
@anonymous sweet
HEY TAO LIN, JUST REMEMBER THAT WE WILL ALWAYS SUPPORT YOU. YOUR STORIES HAVE CAPTIVATED OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY.
BEAUTIFUL STORY, BUT SINCE WE'RE ON THE TOPIC OF RELATIONSHIPS, YOURS DOESN'T HAPPEN TO BE POLYGAMOUS DOES IT? HEHEHEHEHEHEEHEH ;)
NEVER FORGET YOUR ROOTS.
After just rereading SFAA, I can say that I like the direction you're heading in. Your pacing is hott.
After recently finishing a reread of SFAA, I can say I like this new story too. Your pacing is better (which isn't to say the pacing in SFAA was bad, cause it wasn't.)
Tao, u sound like a sweet dude xo
tao lin can you please help me. i love you but you're so far away from me. i truly love you. i've checked your blog for the past 2 years everyday in hopes of seeing you, in hopes of listening to your sweet voice. please i need you. as i ascend to heaven i will look upon you with my wings of desire spread in magnificent display. i will touch your face, kiss your lips as you look up at me and i will truly truly never forget you. my savior. my eternal undying love that will never perish among the decaying fleshes of this world and the fiery flames in the depths of those dark souls. you and i, you and i, it's just you and i. i will listen to your song and i will always wait for you. my poet. we will have a literary relationship of the century. all posterity will remember us by the secret poems and letters we exchanged to one another over the seas and mountains, over the dark hearts of man. we are one and our legacy will be left in the ink stains of textbooks and the cerebral corridors of mankind. our words will be their words. we are the world.
yo, Tao, I've read this story and your novel SFAA. Both seem to depict a man's emotional abuse of a woman, the story in particular the former from the self-pitying perspective of the man--he sees the whole universe against him at the end, e.g. (I personally see irony in the vocabulary you give Paul's thoughts. He indulges abstractions, adverbs, and flighty metaphors in a kind of self-pitying egotism.)
Any thoughts on this? I haven't seen any reviewer or commenter discuss it or question you about it, not that I've been exhaustive in my searching.
I really like this story, Tao. Hits pretty close to home.
I hope it was about how you tore Megan Boyle's heart out and fed it to the wolves.
not Vice again??? Damn homie, you really got their number...now how's about trying to step up your game to the point where you don't have to write little bullshit pieces for Vice and actually write something decent.
The fact that you still haven't figured out that you're a genius and could do so much more than blogging is mind-boggling. How about trying to focus on something for more than 20 minutes...or is that the point? Or maybe that's just the MDMA talking.
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