March 2010
OMG the chat in our backer Google doc is AMAZING.
Anonymous user 257: Woody Allen Porn.
Anonymous user 180: a standoff
me: Ha. And somehowit all comes back to Woody Allen
Anonymous user 288: Well, look at his name
And then his genius
me: HAH
Anonymous user 165: 180: i want to write that movie.
Anonymous user 180: I'm pretty sure we just did.
Anonymous user 165: there's got to be nuance to it.
no dialogue
but lots of cuts
Anonymous user 219: all of you are lying
none of you would ever watch that
Anonymous user 180: I'm not actually versed in screenplay writing, do we have to just write several pages of "INT. DINER: STILL STARING AT EACH OTHER"
Anonymous user 165: i would never WATCH it
but I'd write the fuck out of it
Anonymous user 180: or do we leave that for the director
Anonymous user 288: Watch it?
It's ART
Anonymous user 165: scriptwriting should describe the scene and, in this case, probably some of the subtle interplay
Anonymous user 288: It doesn't need to be watched
Anonymous user 165: "PATRON picks up his fork and twirls it uncomfortably."
Anonymous user 180: isn't there some sort of exhibition at columbia with all of the unfilmable movies from infinite jest
Anonymous user 286: Infinite Jest
no way, really?!
Is that the fancy Columbia or the shitty one?
Anonymous user 180: apparently it's already over but I googled it (google searched, not google spreadsheeted)
google spreadshat?
Anonymous user 165: yes please
Anonymous user 286: haha perfect
Anonymous user 180: it was called A Failed Entertainment
Anonymous user 257: google spreadsheeted > chatroulette?????
Anonymous user 219: ain't no party like a google spreadsheet party
Anonymous user 165: it's true they did a study
Anonymous user 286: See, Hedrick did the same damn thing
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time to change the spreadsheets →
a little over 24 hours left to buy the book and we are in google docs with our backers, making a spreadsheet. and it is hilarious. come hang out! in google docs!
February 2010
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“Writing about sex is difficult for me personally, but I’ve gotten better...”
– Matt Gallaway’s C&C interview is up, and I love it so much.
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Watchcarlodj:
coming and crying, the extended unrated single disc full HD directors cut version, including a fourth segment written by katie west and performed by sarah dennis.
directing/cinematography/editing/coloring/sound/ by carlodj
featuring excerpts from stories by meaghan o’connell, matthew lawrence, katie west, and melissa gira grant.
performances by meaghan o’connell, will mcginn, sarah...
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“I’ll give it a shout on Monday when all the fourteen year old girls from...”
– Lee!
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daa-aaaad
“Oh yeah! That picture that moved! I saw that on your blog, yeah, that was cool!”
“Oh, haha. Yeah. That’s a gif.”
“Yeah I had never seen anything like that before! Where the picture moves like that! That was really cool!”
“Yep.” ***existential panic*** “…Yep.”
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Man About the Internet about C&C →
Tyler’s comingandcrying contrib-terview is up on kickstarter!
tyler: This isn’t in the story, but when I was freaking over it, my father told me, “When I had sex for the first time, I was TERRIFIED.” Which is a sweet fatherly thing to hear, but also made me want to die because it was coming from MY FATHER. meaghan: Well now you can hand this story to your children....
check. →
the best, most devastating abstract ever.
I was horrified by the realization that I had invested so heavily in a made-up character—a character in whose creation I’d had a greater hand that even Pete himself… He sent flowers. Writer visited him in Los Angeles… Describes their numb interactions… Mostly, it was the courtship ritual that had seduced us. ..Tells how he got a job in New York, but fell away from...
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this is AMAZING. coming and crying podcast. →
zedislepidus:
i’m so excited about this book, i AM up at 4 in the morning on tumblr reading these blogs and i’m totally thinking of making a secret blog all about sex and experiences. ohmyblog.
Ahhh. Hahahahhhaa. <3
I just finally listened to this and it isn’t so terrifying after all, although I am definitely cursed with that old MILLENIAL problem of saying “like” like,...
“His bizarre combination of fame, enthusiasm and sentimentalizing drives a lot of...”
– maria bustillos
Ha. I love this piece— but if you ever want to get me New-Nicenessly incensed, express this sentiment to me IRL. I understand it (sort of?), I have heard it again and again, many people I respect feel the same way, yet I cannot help but want to write a murderous and gagworthy...
hahahahalol
marco: Well that guy is probably nice, but--
peter: Oh, that dead guy?
me: The man in the elevator was not dead!
marco: I don't know, he might be.
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>:O--|---
meaghano: i don't know how to do the man. i always copy/paste your men.
langer: HAH.
meaghano: i didn't know that was so funny?
langer: It's an emoticon. It's easier than paint-by-number. It's paint-by-repeating-what-you-see-on-the-screen.
meaghano: k lemme try
* meaghano is typing...
* meaghano is typing...
* meaghano has entered text.
* meaghano is typing...
meaghano: ha no i feel too vulnerable
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peterfeld:
MILLENIALS!
ferrrn:
understand ‘em while they’re hot!
All right, now I’ve figured it all out. Millennials are the Adorable Generation. (That they don’t know how to spell “millennial” makes them all the more so.)
The change in Gawker voice that Hamilton Nolan writes about - in response to the Meredith Bryan NYO piece - represents the transition from the...
“There was a definite feeling of camaraderie throughout the evening, perhaps due...”
– money shot.
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“So many New York literati turned out for the event that the queue to enter...”
– the new yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/02... →
I’m gonna pass out.
sister: I saw you had a Kickstarter option where you can pay 10 dollars to buy a book for a poor friend? Can I be that poor friend? Eh? Eh?
me: Lauren, you're my sister. I think I can get you a free book.
the death of the fameball →
It is indicative of bigger things. It means that the NY startup scene is maturing. It means that we are focusing less on the media-crowned personalities driving “the tech scene” in New York City and (hopefully) more on the awesome things that tech startups are creating
Do you really think the “media” sat down one day and were like, “Hey! Those tech people are really...
This needs to exist.
Does anyone know how Melissa and I would go about getting a few hundred HANKIES embroidered for Coming and Crying? HAH.
Ya know, like those dish towels that say DIRTY on one side and CLEAN on the other, except, err, YES.
Anyway, I know some of you put Martha Stewart to shame. WHAT SHOULD WE DO?
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The Beauty of Updates
kickstarter:
I’ve come to think of pitch videos and project descriptions as first dates. The most idealized versions of ourselves. A little stiff, maybe laughs a little too hard at jokes. It’s often endearing, occasionally awkward, but we all understand how it works.
Project updates are relationships. You get a feel for who someone actually is, how they think, what motivates them. It humanizes...
“I am now going to ask you a favor which sounds quite crazy, and which I should...”
– Franz Kafka wrote exactly the sort of love letters you’d expect. (via ewilcox)
GAHHHH/
because it's important to support the arts
ultralaser:
Kickstarter - Coming & Crying: real stories about sex from the other side of the bed
i just pledged $30, which is really just the equivalant of saying ‘go make this awesome book and then give me a copy’. i don’t have a job and i’m still doing this, because it’s important to support the voices of bloggers* who have brought my life significant enrichment** not because they might...
“I get in love with a tumblr User from San Antonio, Miranda - Venezuela.
And we...”
– today in Meetup emails that make me squeal.
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last wk of C&C (!!!)
saracareening:
Eeeee!! myself cause I just became the 350th backer! Woot!
(Been putting off pledging to this because I never seem to have my credit card/purse/energy around when I am sitting at my computer and then I saw you can pay with your Amazon account which is much simpler even though I have about fifteen cards saved on there and had to deduce from expiration dates which one I could...
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haha/ugh
harmless:
but the other day i found myself chuckling morosely at the recommended blogs, especially the staff picks. “meaghano - creative writing.” REALLY. the staff can’t do any better than recommend another staff member’s blog? do you not have enough followers or something? also please find me the last post meaghano has made that can even be remotely considered “creative writing.”
LOVE YOU,...
“You have to say to yourself, I can’t roll out of bed and expect that gorgeous...”
– Patti Stanger would like me to take it up a few notches. (via thingsiatethatilove)
AMAZING.
zedislepidus:
i just backed this book. and everyone should do it. and i didn’t even get an overdraft (i hope) and i’m a little bummed i only had $15 instead of $30 because the pictures would be WAY COOL but i’m a poorstarvingcollegestudent and i really just need the words. i’m SO EXCITED for this book EVERYONE BACK IT. (6 days left!)
Eeeee!! <3 <3 <3
allofthewholeworld:
Meaghano, I may have only contributed what looks to be $1, but as my account was already negative $3.25 I will receive a whopping $35 overdraft fee. It was worth every cent!
Tonight we added a new Backer level to our Kickstarter: for $10 more, you can send a book to someone who otherwise wouldn’t be able to order it.
Because I think I had something like 15 overdraft...
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ingoodtaste:
Be Here Now, Mason Jennings
God, I...
“I told Chris Kattan that his comedy had prevented me from taking my own life.”
– brainland.: Pen Pals
HAH.
Will Reblogging Work Better Then Emailing?
juliefredrickson:
I have found that sometimes @Tweeting someone you need to reach is more effective than email. I am wondering if Reblogging will work in a similar manner. I have been trying to get a response from Meaghan via email since last Wednesday to no avail regarding a corporate Tumblr. I even went to the Tumblr event on Friday but couldn’t find a reasonable moment at the event to talk to...
Ned: I'm the kind of proud of you that if I was your Mom or Dad I'd take you to Outback.
me: Ha, whoa. I feel like I just got all A's on my report card.