I feel a little talked out this week, so instead of dwelling on the melancholy of an old man on the A-train at 125th Street asking me how to transfer to the 4-train (short answer: you basically can’t, meaning you have to either walk crosstown or go all the way back to the financial district), I’m just going to post this shot of our birch tree and enjoy the silver branches in the silver light.
Waves crashing on swimmer.
Photograph by Mark Tipple (via Design Boom)
I got a lot of nasty looks this morning on the way to work, but I was like, ‘what, is there a law against multicopters?’
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The hotel where I stayed was very gay, however, if by “gay” you mean heavily air-conditioned (which, thank god for that), mod, comfortable, and decked out with wall-sized Gidget shots. It was also called “Daddy O’s” lol.
GPOYW with my pal Jennifer Baron who some of you aging indie rockers might recognize from Ladybug Transistor (JB and I also played together in our old band Saturnine), and which the reason I’m posting is because it was after my recent event in Pittsburgh for The Metropolis Case — “event” being the term used these days for “reading,” which is probably not a bad thing because I only read for a few minutes and let most of the 45 minutes or so be taken up with a Q&A — which was a lot of fun (speaking subjectively I realize), and which I wanted to mention because I’m actually heading out to Los Angeles next month where I’ll be participating in another reading/event/Q&A with the brilliant Natasha Vargas-Cooper at a book store called Book Soup in West Hollywood, specifically on Thursday, May 19 at 7pm, so I hope all of you guys in L.A. can swing by and maybe we can go get a drink or something after at a place TBD? Asses will be kicked, is what I’m saying (most likely mine, obv, at the hands of NVC), and I hope you’ll be there to witness it. I’ll be posting more about this, of course, but I wanted to throw it out there now because time has a way of passing, as you’ve probably noticed, even when it’s spring and the allergies are out in full force…xoxo MG
It’s so warm out in NYC today, I just got rlly tiny with my friend Laverne and went swimming in the sewers. Fortunately there was a water slide there, which was fun!
—Me (pic via DesignBoom)
10) Use words, or at least letters or signs, or maybe just draw shit
9) Punctuate or don’t, who cares (ditto with grammar)
8) Surf the internet as much as you want and don’t fucking sweat it, this is 2010 and some of us have to ‘work’
7) Only use words in the dictionary, or in urbandictonary.com, or just make them up if you want
6) Write about what you know, or maybe just pretend like you know (or maybe pretend that you don’t know?) It all depends!
5) If your book doesn’t have a dragon or sword in it, you should maybe reconsider and include? Or not!
4) Write in the passive voice as much as you want
3) Use adverbs liberally! And adjectives. And nouns. Probz want to have some verbs in there, too. (But only if u want.)
2) No kitten sub-plots unless the kitten is rlly adorbz
1) No exclamation points!!!! OR ALL CAPS. Unless you want to emphasize something important or unimportant (or maybe just marginally important)
