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October 12, 2009
Albums of the Decade Blog Tour.
We are really digging this and we are quite happy to see that the crews at Deckfight and Orange Alert are participating. Did we mention that we are digging this? Good. Did we mention that it starts today? No, well, we have now.
October 11, 2009
Holy frijoles. Wow. Crazy. Awesome. Nuts. The QUICKIES! annual fundraiser is this Tuesday. Jemc. Picard. Gray. Dodson. Burch. Butler. And Tanzer?
We are quite geeked to let you know that TBWCYL, Inc, spokesperson Ben Tanzer will be reading this coming Tuesday as part of a way stellar line-up at the annual QUICKIES! fundraiser extravaganza. There will be Jac Jemc, podcasted here, Elizabeth Wylder, Kate Duva, Caroline Picard, podcasted here, Aaron Plesak, Amelia Gray, Casey Bye, Zach Dodson, Richard Thomas, Aaron Burch and Blake Butler. And while this may go without saying, we really think you want to come. No really, because, one, it's...
October 10, 2009
This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, Week Thirty-Nine - "Post-Run: Fall Edition."
It is Week Thirty-Nine of This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life and as we continue to post one self-portrait per week for one year, this week we offer you a post-run photo as we have done this past summer and winter. You may be wondering where the spring edition is. Well, so are we and we will be talking to the marketing staff about that shortly. In the interim, you may also be wondering if you can, one, see this most self-absorbed of projects in its entirety, you can, at the Flickr, and...
October 8, 2009
The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is feeling all first-time and Soderback. Or something like that.
The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is feeling all first-time. Or something like that. We have a new poem the virgin mary fell off today by Emalie Soderback, which we are way excited about, and, as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, a music selection from Jason Behrends and climbing approval ratings prose love from Pete Anderson. We hope you enjoy this edition and we appreciate all shout-outs and links. Finally, please note, that we think you are the bomb, all of you...
October 7, 2009
A major announcement that we intend to file under why didn't we think of this sooner? Seriously, why didn't we? Weird.
Today we are officially launching the newest arm of TBWCYL, Inc., our ongoing and ever-expanding faux media empire and are happy to announce the birth of This Book Will Change Your Life. What does this mean for you? Not much, possibly. Or, maybe it will mean everything. We already endlessly review and blurb about books here, but during a recent TBWCYL, Inc. board meeting we thought why not (1) formalize and brand the reviewing and blurbage process and (2) give this process some sort of home...
October 6, 2009
Meta? Entertainment? Self-absorption? All of the above?
We were quite excited to find that Michael Kimball blurbed on the Alma Books blog about the blurb we posted here on This Blog Will Change Your Life about his terrific novel Dear Everybody. We're not sure if this qualifies, or maybe more accurately, extends our ongoing self-fascination with all things TBWCYL, Inc., but we also couldn't exactly recall another time we have encountered this. So, what are we saying? Oh yes, we're excited. Well that, and if you give a blogger a cookie, well you know.
October 5, 2009
October 4, 2009
This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, Week Thirty-Eight - "Putting on the Ritz."
It is week thirty-eight of This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, our effort to post one-self-portrait per week for one year and this week we hit the Michigan for a wedding and tux'd in a big way. Can you dig it? Cool. Meanwhile, if you want to follow this project in its entirety please do so at the Flickr, and if you want to see a self-portrait of your very own right here at This Blog Will Change Your Life please hit us with one like right now. There you go.
