We Blame the Unknown: A Rant

We blame the Unknown for our credit card debt

We blame the Unknown for our self-inflicted loneliness

We blame the Unknown for making cigarettes attractive

We blame the Unknown for being a hypertext which means it will never taken seriously meaning its authors will never be taken seriously

We blame the Unknown for sleepless nights

We blame the Unknown for ridiculous flame wars

We blame the Unknown for outrageous ISP bills

We blame the Unknown for the tease of minor celebrity

We blame the Unknown for having better writing than the anthology it was supposed to promote making the anthology beside the point and even a little embarrassing

We blame the Unknown for our own delusions of grandeur

We blame the Unknown for our unfinished PhD's

We blame the Unknown for carpal tunnel syndrome

We blame the Unknown for being so fucking huge

We blame the Unknown for being too much fun

We blame the Unknown for not attracting the right kind of groupies

We blame the Unknown for our poverty

We blame the Unknown for most of the world's problems but none of the solutions

We blame the Unknown for all the errors it contains

We blame the Unknown for not being printed on paper

We blame the Unknown for making us caricatures

We blame the Unknown for our questionable hygiene

We blame the Unknown for our sloppy handwriting

We blame the Unknown for being so malleable, so inclusive

We blame the Unknown for being so formulaic

We blame the Unknown for being so po-mo

We blame the Unknown for its addiction to HTML

We blame the Unknown for being free but only on a very expensive computer

We blame the Unknown for just about everything

We blame the Unknown for making a scene entitled “We Blame the Unknown” necessary

 

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