bear parade
raaaar.
hikikomori
by ellen kennedy and tao lin
this is the ninth book in the bear parade series.
Tao Lin and Ellen Kennedy have a small press together called ASS HI BOOKS.
Ellen Kennedy is the co-founder, co-owner, co-author, art director, CEO, violin section leader, and publicist for Ass Hi books. Her writing has appeared in The Alice Blue Review, Juked, 3am Magazine, and The 2nd Hand. She is a poetry editor for 3am Magazine and is looking for ways to pay her rent without getting a job.
Tao Lin is the author of a novel, EEEEE EEE EEEE (May 2007, Melville House), and a story-collection, BED (May 2007, Melville House). Tao is the author of a poetry-collection, YOU ARE A LITTLE BIT HAPPIER THAN I AM (November 2006, Action Books). Tao's blog is called READER OF DEPRESSING BOOKS. Tao lives in Brooklyn where he works as a professional jobless bitch.
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People aren't blurbing, but whatever. I know it used to be a blog. This is something people should realistically enjoy and feel free to talk shit about. I get very happy reading this book. - Gene / April 4, 2007 11:12 PM I will blurb. I like this book. - Tao / April 5, 2007 6:15 PM i really liked this book - maya / April 8, 2007 11:34 PM I feel this book wrongly glorifies the Hikikomori lifestyle. It may encourage the youth of America to lock themselves in their rooms with hamsters and other items. - Jason / April 11, 2007 1:36 PM This shit is weird - Thomas / May 1, 2007 9:12 PM What is going on. Actually, whatever. You guys are like pretentious but in such a promiscuous way, it makes me sick to my stomach. Alternatively, though, it's quite delicious with all that jazzy snazzy writing. Honestly, I can't resist buckling into a fantastic, semi-undesirable life described by the Hikikomori lifestyle! - Akshizzle / May 15, 2007 9:19 PM I think im kinda a Hikikomori. But Im not scared about the outside social world. But I stay inside alot. - "Rone" / July 20, 2007 3:40 PM I stay inside all the time. I'm 20 and I almost never ever leave my room. I browse the internet all day and look at funny pictures and tell people in chatrooms how great my life is and is going to be, but I never actually do anything besides stay inside all day and look at funny pictures on the internet. Your stories make me feel a deep sense of regret. Is that good or bad? - Hal / July 28, 2007 5:00 AM I should have read this on Thursday. On Friday I ate soy beans in their shells and didn't know to take the shells off, so I ate them whole. If I had read this first I would have known what to do. So I think everyone should read this at least once if only because knowing how to eat soy beans the right way can sometimes be important. - Gabriel / July 30, 2007 12:24 PM Remember: Everything is equivalent to Nothing. Who needs linear thought? Whataboutthe/ a esoteric junction of epiphanies constructing...? Everything. Now (Remember) Revel in that... - Tripmonkey / August 3, 2007 5:29 PM Someone hacked up art at the beginning of the twentieth century. It hasn't been able to walk the same since. - Niel / August 4, 2007 11:19 AM Niel: Art had it comin - Gabriel / August 20, 2007 8:26 PM me like - dom / September 14, 2007 10:21 AM If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddamn closet. - andrew / December 16, 2007 2:12 PM i feel sad but also kind of tingly. - lina / December 23, 2007 7:13 PM I'm...not sure I want to finish this. - Roo / January 21, 2008 12:54 PM hahaha. vunderbar~ - lauren / January 21, 2008 9:19 PM hey this is like, fantastic, it makes me want to write using small details like hotplates and ugly fish all the time. - tory / January 23, 2008 7:45 PM That was weird, but great, really... - Casey / February 15, 2008 5:11 PM FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK i like this book a lot you, tao and ellen, also noah and stuff everybody like that always make me want to change my mind. it is distressing. please write something about how i should stay exactly the same and i am okay, please. - tory / February 15, 2008 5:49 PM i like these letters/book/story it was very entertaining i started on 13 and read until 20 and then went back to 1 and read until the end. when it was over i said no and was upset that it was over. i did not reread 13 through 20. i think that tripmonkey is pretentious. i think you are pretending. - mark / February 20, 2008 7:54 PM i feel lonely too. - Uglyfish / March 5, 2008 1:50 PM I am a hikikomori. Except here in America, we don't have a word for it. We are just loser shut-ins. - hikikUSA / May 11, 2008 11:52 PM i laughed so hard and then i cried and made an organic smoothie. i feel alone too - amanda / May 24, 2008 8:12 PM I read this book all the way through, twice, and enjoyed it very much. I researched hikikomori for a grant I applied for a few years ago, so this was especially interesting to me. Also, I think natto is delicious. Thank you for sharing this on the Internet, Tao and Ellen. - Meg / June 20, 2008 12:28 AM lovely :3 - >:3 / August 9, 2008 8:18 PM i just renamed a folder on my desktop "richard yates wearing a hotplate suit." - olivia / September 2, 2008 5:57 PM
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