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8,794 Rambling Words On Tao Lin « madore’s other blog — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:00:14 +0000

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By: Dana Williams

Dana Williams — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:16:37 +0000

I think it is so cool, Tao, that you enjoy Matthew Rohrer’s poetry. I took a course with him and Matthew Zupruder over the summer in Paris. It was awesome and he is a great guy! His work is so honest and filled with the humor that surrounds daily life but is rarely explored.

Cheers!

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By: Robin Slick

Robin Slick — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:06:39 +0000

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

Juliet — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 06:19:24 +0000

(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

Juliet — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 06:18:10 +0000

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

blake — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:32:25 +0000

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

tao lin — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:18:11 +0000

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

Robin Slick — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:11:31 +0000

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

Juliet — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:04:06 +0000

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.