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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Books Tao Lin Wants You to Send Him Money

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:31 PM

Slog Tipper Kristi notifies us about this "Experimental Contest" (Kristi calls it a "scam") on Tao Lin's blog:

the email address that paypals...the largest amount* of money by wednesday at 11 pm wins this 'experimental contest' (no amounts will be revealed until the end, and then only by email to those who 'participated,' and no amounts will be returned, as this isn't an 'auction,' but a kind of 'gamble'), gaining for themselves, their friends, and their family the items in the video below**

Here is the video with the prizes:

You can read the whole blog post (and get the e-mail address to enter the "contest") at Tao Lin's blog.

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This is hilarious. I love the upside down crosses he drew on blank pages that you can flip the page to make Christian crosses.

Posted by Mattini on November 10, 2009 at 2:37 PM

It's not a scam. If there were some deception involved then it would be a scam, but I have no reason to believe that Tao Lin does not intend to send the prizes to the individual who "wins". Therefore it is, at worst, a kind of lottery for dumbasses, where you get to pick the price of your lottery ticket, and the more you pay for it, the more likely you are to "win".

Posted by Breklor on November 10, 2009 at 2:54 PM

'lottery for dumbasses'

hehe/damn

Posted by hehe/damn on November 10, 2009 at 2:57 PM

please please please stop writing about Tao Lin. don't feed the troll and such.

Posted by Josh Bomb

on November 10, 2009 at 2:58 PM

Tao Lin must be Chinese for Hacky Douche...

Posted by michael strangeways

on November 10, 2009 at 3:14 PM

I can't imagine this "contest" appealing to anyone that doesn't understand what they're in for. I'd probably have avoided using the word "gamble" if I were him though, just to stay on the safe side of the law.

Posted by Dougsf on November 10, 2009 at 4:02 PM

It warms my heart to see Tao Lin's desperate struggle to put off the inevitable end of his career as whatever it is he does. Artiste, I guess.

But seriously, he should quit goofing around and go develop some job skills.

Posted by elenchos on November 10, 2009 at 4:29 PM

If his 'books' are as 'well-written' as his blog 'posts', then 'I' feel like I'm 'not' missing out 'on much'.

There's a hilariously stupid and bad typo in his own blurb from New York magazine, which I very much doubt is in the original ("heads-over-heals"). Oh, wait, I checked the original, and they said, correctly, "head-over-heels". In other words, avant-garde lit-boy is an illiterate boob.

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