Ari Meil

Aliens

Ari — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:48:54 +0000

A poem for today:

Aliens

Tired aliens in the backyard,

Sick of anal probes and cattle mutilation,

Breakdown camp and try

to assemble what they’ve learned

Into something more coherent than the truth.

My Friend Ben

Ari — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:57:19 +0000

This is a kid’s book that I wrote a long time ago. It is meant to be a 16 page illustrated book. It isn’t really suitable for children. But I do stand by the message. Some people just get away with things. Then the moment you try to get away with the same things you [...]

Occupy Awesome

Ari — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:11:41 +0000

For Christmas I made some art for my friends and family. Each of these was framed in a square black 8×8 frame.

Amazon, Independent Bookstores, and Farhad Manjoo

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:05:15 +0000

In his recent article on Slate.com, Farhad Manjoo makes a number of good points about why independent local bookstores are maybe not the most streamlined places to buy or sell books.

But I think that he maybe shows his ignorance of the other side of the process, and how the price of books, and the [...]

A Bit More of Fantasies and Daydreams

admin — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:51:58 +0000

Here is a bit more of the story from my previous post. I think, after struggling with it for a long while, that I have come up with a direction and conclusion for the second half of the story. If you didn’t read the last post, you probably should, because then this one will make [...]

Fantasies and Daydreams

Ari — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:24:06 +0000

Here is the beginning of a story I’ve been working on for a long time. Admittedly, I hadn’t looked at it in nearly a year when I picked it back up recently, but still. It is meant to be an homage to Italo Calvino whose work has played a relatively pivotal and strange role in [...]

Only One

Ari — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:56:38 +0000

Here is a collection of rejection letters to famous authors. It makes me feel better about the rejections I am receiving for my own book. But not much better.

On Publishing:
Publishers are like the bees, and Amazon is like the window pane. Occupy Amazon guys!

Here Are a Few Interesting Items

Ari — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:26:23 +0000

This is a story about how protesters taking part in the Occupy Wall Street movement have been using the Guy Fawkes mask that Alan Moore created for his now 30-year-old comic V for Vendetta. Shepard Fairy has created a poster of a protestor wearing the mask.

This is [...]