So that’s been cool. I’m also applying to grad schools. I think I’m going to actually start using Tumblr more often, soon. I figured I should make a post here in preparation for that day. Since my last post was almost a year ago. I guess that’s all.

wondertonic:

Charity Bribes uses donations to pressure celebrities to do things. Right now you can bribe Larry David to join Twitter by donating to the NRDC. If he does it, the money goes to the charity. If not, he’ll just have to find some way to live with himself.

Been building this with Chris Baker and William Burks Spencer for some time. Hopefully giving to charity will now be just a little more awesome.

McSweeney’s. Thoreau. Freestyle jet skiing. 

Together at last. 

Xtreme Walden.

Anthropomorphised Cat Pictures as Precursor to the Modern Day Cat Meme: A Comparative Analysis of the Works of Louis Wain and Harry Whittier Frees.

Or: 

For Make Silly Old-Timey Cat Happy Time Now. 

Click here. Or there.

Remember passing puppy love notes in class when you were little? I took the liberty of giving that an update for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. 

Short story, “Red Light,” was selected for publication in this year’s Hair Trigger, marking my second appearance in the jewel of Columbia’s Fiction Writing department. I have yet to thoroughly read through this year’s collection, but so far, just in skimming, I’m seeing the usual dauntingly well-written work. I am especially proud to say that, as far as I can tell, it appears as though I have managed to contribute the most perverse story ever published in the 33 year history of Hair Trigger. For HT, that is definitely saying something. A very disturbing something, perhaps, but still. 

Hopefully she’ll take the top prize in NYC again, this year. My piece and a best-of overview coming to my main site, whenever I find time between writing and 40 hours a week.  

“Spontaneous eloquence seems to me a miracle,” confessed Vladimir Nabokov in 1962. “I have never delivered to my audience one scrap of information not prepared in typescript beforehand. At parties, if I attempt to entertain people with a good story, I have to go back to every other sentence for oral erasures and inserts…

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.” 

“Junk is surrounded by magic and taboos, curses and amulets. I could find my Mexico City connection by radar. ‘Not this street, the next, right…now left. Now right again,’ and there he is, toothless old woman face and cancelled eyes. Ten pounds lost in ten minutes standing with the syringe in one hand holding the pants up with the other, his abdicated flesh burning in a cold yellow halo, there in the New York hotel room…night table litter of candy boxes, cigarette butts cascading out of three ashtrays, mosaic of sleepless nights and sudden food needs of the kicking addict nursing his baby flesh.”

Description: This object perpetually attempts to sell itself on Ebay. 

A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter

2009

Caleb Larsen

8”x8”x8”

Acrylic, custom electronics, programming, internet connection, online auction.

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