in commemoration of the fun times, blood, tears, and happiness, here is a recap of the year for my blog and my lifenovember and december 09 | i played chess on yahoo chess and chessmaster 9000. i watched southland tales. i read shoplifting from american apparel by tao lin. my poems were published at nthposition and cricket online review. i reviewed home alone 2
january 10 | i read almost all of tao lin’s blog archives. i wrote on my blog that being alive is “suffering that is beautiful.” my blog started to attract readers who know me in real life
february 10 | i wrote a long post about aesthetics and identity. i wrote a crappy blog post about eminem and deleted it. i wrote about robert grenier, and ron silliman linked to it, propelling me to 90 hits in one day... i wrote about a vegan-related news event
march 10 | i had a lot of online publications. i got acceptance letters from cal arts, california college of the arts, and columbia college chicago; i got rejection letters from other places. i posted visual poems on facebook and tagged 50 people in them
april 10 | i decided to go to columbia college chicago for an mfa. i visited chicago and read at the columbia poetry review release. i adopted a more minimalist tone on my blog and revised old posts to be consistent with it. i watched the documentary helvetica on my parents' netflix instant play
may 10 | i started reviewing books on my blog. i took a graphic design class that encouraged my already blossoming use of helvetica. i reviewed tao lin, and he linked to it, and my hits were over 100 in a day... i wrote poems by translating things between languages on google translate
june 10 | i redesigned my blog to basically my current design, and i released an ironic computer background. i deleted my content from november to april and created a post to archive some of it. i finished my last undergrad classes. i submitted a chapbook manuscript called i am like october when i am dead to h_ngm_n books. i moved to my parents’ houses
july 10 | i cultivated beans and sugar beets on my dad’s farm, and i got free books to review on my blog. i watched hgtv with my gf while eating veggie burgers and various grains. i wrote poems every day for 30 days with my friend j joseph kane. i visited chicago again and found an apartment with my gf. i went swimming in lake huron, then i moved to chicago
august 10 | i had my 5 year anniversary with my gf. i released a video about the oppression of nonhuman animals. i met stephen tully dierks in person. i withdrew my chapbook manuscript from h_ngm_n. i started going to the library every morning to work on poetry and my blog. i posted image poems on my blog
september 10 | i read john keats’s love letters. i met brett gallagher in real life. i started school. i went to tao lin’s readings in chicago, and i hung out with stephen, brett, and tao. i read at ear eater 1. i decided to self-publish my chapbook in october so i could control the design and distribution
october 10 | i posted about submitting to literary journals, and ron silliman linked to it. i posted about publishing into the public domain, and leo babauta linked to it. i released my chapbook and many of my internet friends reviewed it. my blog hits increased a lot from september. i was an elephant for halloween
november 10 | john campbell linked to my chapbook. i opened my etsy store of ironic greeting cards. i helped stephen design pop serial 2. i helped organize poncho peligroso week 2010. i started a collaborative blog with brett gallagher called bloodhound gang. my image poems and greeting cards went slightly viral on fuck yeah helvetica
thanks to everybody who has read my blog or been my friend online or in real life this year. sorry if i left out something that had to do with you
for a more complete round up of posts, see my archive. thank you my lovely friends
