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This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, Week Forty-Two - "Meta Plug?"

It is Week Forty-Two of This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life our terribly self-absorbed effort to post one self-portrait per week for one-year. This week we were thinking why not take this opportunity to further plug the launch of This Book Will Change Your Life? And so we have. Smooth, right? We know. Meanwhile, if you would like to follow this project in its entirety please feel free to do so at the Flickr. And, if you would like to see a self-portrait of you very own posted right here...

This Book Will Change Your Life - Conquering Venus by Collin Kelley.

Bam. It took us all month, but we are happy to announce the first edition of This Book Will Change Your Life. Drum roll please. Thanks. And the first edition is...Conquering Venus by Collin Kelley, which we are going to file under books we might not have read, but did because we met the author, were quite taken with him, found ourselves intrigued, started reading and then quickly lost ourselves in this near otherworldly tale of romance, revolution, suicide and Paris. That said, here's the...

Cover madness.

We have been very excited about the imminent release of Working on a Dream: The Progressive Political Vision of Bruce Springsteen by good friend David Masciotra and now that there is an official, and quite awesome, cover we are doubly so. Meanwhile, and speaking of awesome, while we have not been looking quite as forward to the release of Adam Lambert's debut album, are they still called albums, we are none-the-less quite enjoying the release of the the cover. Nice.

I Am Richard Simmons.

We should begin by saying that TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer's ml press chapbook I am richard simmons has arrived here at headquarters along with more introductions to a book I will never finish by mark baumer and boots walking in america found a trophy by

Virus-induced mass hysteria.Twinkies. And Emm Stone? Zombieland rocks. Said another way, if work travel = reading, then furlough days = matinees.

Virus-induced mass hysteria.Twinkies. And Emma Stone? Zombieland rocks. On another note, if work travel = reading, then furlough days = matinees.

No one paints ml press in a corner. Or should we say, an homage to the J.A. Tyler via a delayed tribute to Patrick Swayze's artistry and passing.

For real, ml press has released its first novella, We Take Me Apart by Molly Gaudry. Nice.

No one paints ml press in a corner. Or if you prefer, an homage to the work J.A. Tyler via a delayed tribute to Patrick Swayze's artistry and passing.

For real, ml press has released its first novella, We Take Me Apart by Molly Gaudry. Nice.

This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, Week Forty-One - "Fourth Quarter."

It is Week Forty-One of This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, which means we are now into the fourth quarter of our self-absorbed effort to post one self-portrait per week for one year. It also means that the completion of this project now looms and sadness reigns here at TBWCYL, Inc. headquarters. Still, we will persevere because we know how important this effort is to you. We also know that you may want to follow the project in its entirety, so please feel free to so at the Flickr...

Tobias Carroll. And The Scowl.

So, we were thinking about how the other night we enjoyed some drinks and most excellent conversation with Brooklyn's own Tobias Carroll, which then got us thinking about his most excellent blog The Scowl, which then got us wondering whether you have ever taken the time to check out The Scowl, which then got us thinking that if you haven't, why haven't you, which got us thinking that maybe you don't know about it, which seems unlikely, but which then got us thinking, that maybe that's...