Sam Pink's Blog, page 69

much love to all my people living as three people: ...

much love to all my people living as three people:  one inside your head saying hateful/depressed/hopeless shit, another as the one inside your head trying to deal with the first one, and the third one as visible to the outside world, trying to keep people from noticing any trace of the first two.

feel like it'd be good if a publishing company was going ...

feel like it'd be good if a publishing company was going to put out 'the collected works of [somewhat recent famous author]" but used 'da' instead of 'the'

like, 'da collected stories of john cheever.' 

some hot-ass, mid-lip-licking, umbros action.

some hot-ass, mid-lip-licking, umbros action. 

logan square sucks

logan square sucks

a thought i have a lot--directed at myself--is "control y...

a thought i have a lot--directed at myself--is "control your bitch."

POLITICALQUESTION MALE

one type of person that seems to always be at a reading is 'political question male.' there's always a male who, if given the chance to ask the reader(s) questions, will ask political questions in a way such that he tries to make what you've read a 'true' or 'false' statement based on vague/abstract political ideas, such that he puts the reader(s) in a position of having to defend the creative writing they've done, as though it were about to be law the next day. the motive of 'political question male' is not to genuinely find out what you think, or test his own ideas, but simply to display himself in front of others, in an effort to find out who's 'right' and who's 'wrong.'  be prepared friends, for 'political question male' is a worthy foe, and will stop at nothing to try and prove how the story you just read will not be politically viable in ruling a nation. bonus identification tip:  he will often be wearing a blazer with jeans, and have some sort of backpack/bag. also, remember that to 'political question male' politics isn't something universal, something that is a part of every moment of every person's life, but instead, a set of carefully read texts and ideas. 

feel like i'm getting to that place where my immediate re...

feel like i'm getting to that place where my immediate reaction to anyone coming up to me will be to try and bite them. 

Scott McClanahan HILL WILLIAM Book Trailer from ...

  Scott McClanahan HILL WILLIAM Book Trailer from Holler Presents on Vimeo.

scott sent me an earlier draft of this book and i just started reading it and it's good. 
find out why many are calling it, 'simply scrumptious...a literary cannonball into the deep end of what it feels like tof usf in some kind of whoa and i mean it like good!!!

i feel like no matter what happens in a book, i will like...

i feel like no matter what happens in a book, i will like it a lot if it ends with the sentence, "And with that, s/he finally--finally and truly--understood the neighbor's dog."

i'm going to write an article called something like 'ten ...

i'm going to write an article called something like 'ten quickly written and un-thought-out essays' for this website.  so if people want to just list things in the comments section, for example 'paperclips' or 'fun' or anything like that, then i'll pick ten and write a paragraph long essay on each where i just write out what i'm thinking.