March 2012
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jayrosen:
Master manipulator with nerves of...
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#sxsw EP Track 1: The Day The Memes Ran Out
Hi there! You’re reading a story from Sixth and Lavaca, a short fiction EP for SXSW 2012 hosted at saladonions.tumblr.com. If you like it, add a short tale of your own to http://sxswstories.tumblr.com. From a tweet to a novella, everything’s welcome!
I was there, son. I was there the day the memes ran out. I should remember, because I caused it. We joke about it now, of course,...
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SXSW: Then and Now
It was 2011.
Try and look behind my “no luggage, no hotel” eyes. From the inside, SXSW was the most beautiful and most perfect thing imaginable. An event of great importance. A digital Davos, where the future of the internet would be decided, and you could get a bloody good drink in the interim.
It is 2012.
From the outside, SXSW seems to consist of drinking (still a viable and...
thetrianglepost asked: What do you think of my "Mr Happy" post as a piece of long copy from a strategist's vantage? It needs a call to action, perhaps a cursory wrap-up line as well, but I can't figure out what its missing. Help?
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#SXSW EP Track 4: Beautiful Lines, Pt. I
Hi there! You’re reading the final story from Sixth and Lavaca, a short fiction EP for SXSW 2012 hosted at saladonions.tumblr.com. If you like it, add a short tale of your own to http://sxswstories.tumblr.com. From a tweet to a novella, everything’s welcome!
The man tapped his non-pipe on the non-table, and studied me.
“You have a complexity about you,” he said, “that is so simple. It’s...
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#SXSW EP Track 3: The Song
Hi there! You’re reading a story from Sixth and Lavaca, a short fiction EP for SXSW 2012 hosted at saladonions.tumblr.com. If you like it, add a short tale of your own to http://sxswstories.tumblr.com. From a tweet to a novella, everything’s welcome!
It had been born in the throat of the woman… no. It had been born in the mind of the woman, as the woman’s wonderings about life, as her...
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#SXSW EP Track 2: A-B
Hi there! You’re reading a story from Sixth and Lavaca, a short fiction EP for SXSW 2012 hosted at saladonions.tumblr.com. If you like it, add a short tale of your own to http://sxswstories.tumblr.com. From a tweet to a novella, everything’s welcome!
I don’t know much when I have a hangover, but that morning I knew two things: first, that Hapsburg was in trouble. Second, that he was about to...
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Sixth and Lavaca: A Short Story EP for SXSW
Last year, I went to SXSW interactive and had a blast. And I couldn’t really work out how to report on it factually, so I did it fictionally - with Eleven Very Short Stories. People got really into it, which was great.
This year, two things are different:
a) I’m writing a lot more fiction.
b) I can’t be at SXSW.
So, the model doesn’t quite work. Instead, I’m...
