Comments on: Tao Lin http://litpark.com/2006/12/02/tao-lin/ where writers come to play Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:37:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: litpark » LitPark will re-open in September http://litpark.com/2006/12/02/tao-lin/#comment-54202 litpark » LitPark will re-open in September Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:16:13 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/12/02/tao-lin/#comment-54202 [...] Greenland * Shawn Decker * Stephanie Lessing * Susan Henderson * Susan Straight * Suzan Woodruff * Tao Lin * Terry Bain * The Man Eating Neil Gaiman * Thom Didato * Tish Cohen * Todd Zuniga * Tom Jackson * [...] […] Greenland * Shawn Decker * Stephanie Lessing * Susan Henderson * Susan Straight * Suzan Woodruff * Tao Lin * Terry Bain * The Man Eating Neil Gaiman * Thom Didato * Tish Cohen * Todd Zuniga * Tom Jackson * […]

]]> By: Robin Slick http://litpark.com/2006/12/02/tao-lin/#comment-1671 Robin Slick Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:06:39 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/12/02/tao-lin/#comment-1671 Tao, as long as you don't listen to Styx, you have nothing to be nervous about. I would be afraid of YOU if you did. Yeah, if I went to a guy's apartment and saw a Styx CD, I'd run out of there so fast it wouldn't matter if he were CEO of Random House. Okay, I'm lying. But still. Tao, as long as you don’t listen to Styx, you have nothing to be nervous about. I would be afraid of YOU if you did.

Yeah, if I went to a guy’s apartment and saw a Styx CD, I’d run out of there so fast it wouldn’t matter if he were CEO of Random House.

Okay, I’m lying.

But still.

]]> By: Juliet http://litpark.com/2006/12/02/tao-lin/#comment-1660 Juliet Tue, 05 Dec 2006 06:19:24 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/12/02/tao-lin/#comment-1660 (For the record, he was king of using the word "anus" that year. At present, it's back to good old fashioned "ass") (For the record, he was king of using the word “anus” that year. At present, it’s back to good old fashioned “ass”)

]]> By: Juliet http://litpark.com/2006/12/02/tao-lin/#comment-1659 Juliet Tue, 05 Dec 2006 06:18:10 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/12/02/tao-lin/#comment-1659 It came up one day at the breakfast table when he asked me, "Mom, do some dildos vibrate?" My response? "Yes, honey, they do." Met with: "Do we have one of them here?" To which I responded, "No, actually, James, we don't have dildos here," then paused to get my mind around the fact, asked: "So, honey, where did you hear about this?" "Oh, Shaun." (A kid down the street.) Son continued: "I know that when two men have intercourse, one of them can put his penis in the other's anus. But what about two women?" Well, being the good parent that I am, and realizing that unless I want my son getting his sex info from some kid on the street who charges a slice of pizza in return to such great facts as this, I figured I'd walk it all through. "Mom?" "well, James..." "That's probably why they use dildos that vibrate, right? They just use those?" "Yes, son. That's one thing... you're right." "So, Mom, do you think two men would put a dildo, even a vibrating one, into one another?" (At this point in the day, I'm thinking: where's the camera? where's the candid-freaking camera?) "I suppose they could, son." "I don't think I'd like that, Mom. I don't know if I want to put a dildo in a woman either, but I don't want a penis in my anus. And I don't want to put one in anyone's anus either." From there, he started eating his breakfast. And then, later asked, "And if a whole bunch of people wanted to do the dildo together, that's what?" And that, Tao, is how the orgy talk began. (He's 11 now, and only charges kids on the street a bag of chips to tell them what he knows) It came up one day at the breakfast table when he asked me, “Mom, do some dildos vibrate?”
My response?
“Yes, honey, they do.”
Met with:
“Do we have one of them here?”
To which I responded,
“No, actually, James, we don’t have dildos here,” then paused to get my mind around the fact, asked:
“So, honey, where did you hear about this?”

“Oh, Shaun.” (A kid down the street.) Son continued: “I know that when two men have intercourse, one of them can put his penis in the other’s anus. But what about two women?”

Well, being the good parent that I am, and realizing that unless I want my son getting his sex info from some kid on the street who charges a slice of pizza in return to such great facts as this, I figured I’d walk it all through.

“Mom?”
“well, James…”
“That’s probably why they use dildos that vibrate, right? They just use those?”

“Yes, son. That’s one thing… you’re right.”

“So, Mom, do you think two men would put a dildo, even a vibrating one, into one another?”

(At this point in the day, I’m thinking: where’s the camera? where’s the candid-freaking camera?)

“I suppose they could, son.”

“I don’t think I’d like that, Mom. I don’t know if I want to put a dildo in a woman either, but I don’t want a penis in my anus. And I don’t want to put one in anyone’s anus either.”

From there, he started eating his breakfast. And then, later asked, “And if a whole bunch of people wanted to do the dildo together, that’s what?”

And that, Tao, is how the orgy talk began.

(He’s 11 now, and only charges kids on the street a bag of chips to tell them what he knows)

]]> By: blake http://litpark.com/2006/12/02/tao-lin/#comment-1656 blake Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:32:25 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/12/02/tao-lin/#comment-1656 ellen degeneres makes my stomach hurt. the one time i saw tao read he did not give everyone in the audience a free cookbook and a chanel backpack with free crap he'd mention during his piece. i think that makes him better than ED, among other things. what did your son say when you told him what an orgy was? did he think it was gross? thanks for the comments! ellen degeneres makes my stomach hurt. the one time i saw tao read he did not give everyone in the audience a free cookbook and a chanel backpack with free crap he’d mention during his piece. i think that makes him better than ED, among other things.

what did your son say when you told him what an orgy was? did he think it was gross?

thanks for the comments!

]]> By: tao lin http://litpark.com/2006/12/02/tao-lin/#comment-1650 tao lin Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:18:11 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/12/02/tao-lin/#comment-1650 juliet, that's good that you explained an orgy to your child how did it come up though? robin, i am nervous, i don't listen to styx... i don't know, i'm afraid juliet,

that’s good that you explained an orgy to your child

how did it come up though?

robin,

i am nervous, i don’t listen to styx… i don’t know, i’m afraid

]]> By: Robin Slick http://litpark.com/2006/12/02/tao-lin/#comment-1637 Robin Slick Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:11:31 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/12/02/tao-lin/#comment-1637 Cool as in hip...as in naturally so, not contrived. It's what I pick up in your work and seeing you read live. However... In the event I am way off and you are in reality a nervous sweaty OCD geek who dances around his apartment while listening to Styx CDs, please do not tell me -- better not to destroy the illusion. Cool as in hip…as in naturally so, not contrived.

It’s what I pick up in your work and seeing you read live.

However…

In the event I am way off and you are in reality a nervous sweaty OCD geek who dances around his apartment while listening to Styx CDs, please do not tell me — better not to destroy the illusion.

]]> By: Juliet http://litpark.com/2006/12/02/tao-lin/#comment-1634 Juliet Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:04:06 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/12/02/tao-lin/#comment-1634 For what it's worth, I told my then-seven-year-old what an orgy was, and it hasn't traumatized him, nor did he run out to arrange one on the playground. Though he is eleven now, and has been sent home for explaining to the teacher that standardized tests have more to do with the teacher's ability than the child's, and refused to pick up his pen. BUT when he was home, he didn't have any orgies. so it's all good. Tao, your grin is beautiful. For what it’s worth, I told my then-seven-year-old what an orgy was, and it hasn’t traumatized him, nor did he run out to arrange one on the playground. Though he is eleven now, and has been sent home for explaining to the teacher that standardized tests have more to do with the teacher’s ability than the child’s, and refused to pick up his pen.
BUT when he was home, he didn’t have any orgies.
so it’s all good.

Tao, your grin is beautiful.

]]> By: tao lin http://litpark.com/2006/12/02/tao-lin/#comment-1619 tao lin Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:52:05 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/12/02/tao-lin/#comment-1619 about ellen degeneres, she is always grinning or smiling, she never seems bored, but i always seem bored about ellen degeneres, she is always grinning or smiling, she never seems bored, but i always seem bored

]]> By: tao lin http://litpark.com/2006/12/02/tao-lin/#comment-1618 tao lin Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:46:39 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/12/02/tao-lin/#comment-1618 susan, thanks for hosting the interview ideally i would read in a perfect monotone with an expressionless face, with equal weight to each syllable, but i do grin sometimes patry, i remember you, you commented on my site a long time ago robin, hello what do you mean by 'cool'? i feel strange susan, thanks for hosting the interview

ideally i would read in a perfect monotone with an expressionless face, with equal weight to each syllable, but i do grin sometimes

patry, i remember you, you commented on my site a long time ago

robin, hello

what do you mean by ‘cool’?

i feel strange

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