Dear Mr. White

Jack White's Third Man Records Starts Publishing Wing


Third Man Books

Dear Mr. White,

I am currently working on a poetic collection that I am calling Bad Love Poetry.  The premise is as follows:

You've heard the saying "Better to have love and lost than never to have loved at all".  People often reply with something like "Have you ever tried it?".  By that they mean going through a period of loss, but what if you take it another way.  What would it be like to be the kind of person who has never loved at all?  What kind of perspective would a person like that have on things?  Romance?  Normal parts of life?  Things that normal people think of as insignificant but would be to somebody else?  How would a person with that perspective on love express themselves poetically?  What kind of bad love poetry would be produced?

The way I figure it, I'm about 78% of the way done with my collection.  I don't really have a date that I'm shooting for to be done, but I can be persuaded otherwise.  Examples of my poetic works can be found at these links.  I've self published in the past, finding no financial success as I do so, but I believe I can find success if I have the right people backing me.  I've tried finding financial success myself but I simply cannot market myself in any form or fashion.  If you are in any way interested in continuing your publishing of poetry, and if Bad Love Poetry piques your interests, contact me and we can discuss bringing my work to your publishing wing.

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Imperfect Execution

There are ideas that people have that are not quite fully formed.  They are the germs of good ideas, they just need to sit for a while untill they become perfect.  This is the reason I'm not currently engaged in the writing of a piece of longform narrative fiction.  Bad Love Poetry is coming along, but it's not the kind of narrative work that I've done in the past.  A similar thing can be said about a series of pictures recently posted on China's social networking leader, Weibo.

A guy photoshopping himself into childhood pictures of girlfriend isn't an entirely bad idea.  It is an idea that need a little bit of tweeking.  What is that tweek?  If you are going to photoshop yourself into childhood pictures of your girlfriend, use childhood pictures of yourself when you are doing it.  Doing that would have made those pictures sentimental, significant, and not the source of internet ridicule.  Of course if this guy had done that his photoshop work wouldn't be getting the amount of attention it's getting, but in some ways that's good.

Questioning Tinder

Questioning Tinder

by Hunter Red

I’ve sent out several messages this morning

At least I think they’re messages

I don’t know

I think “Like” is a message

It’s not like “Don’t Like” is a message

Unless it is

Oh shit!

Do people see when I don’t like something?

I mean it’s the internet, and people can ignore shit on the internet

But some people get really upset over shit they see on the internet

Am I cyberbullying by saying “Don’t Like”?

Am I cyberbullying by saying “Like”?

Am I a cyberbully?

Am I a stalker?

This internet messaging is weird

I’ve sent out several messages this morning

No responses yet

No responses yet

No responses yet

Why no responses yet?

Am I that unpopular?

Is it the pics I posted?

Is it the info I put in my profile?

I don’t want to give away too much info, but did I tell enough?

Why no responses yet?

I mean, sure it’s been ten minutes

But some people are connected constantly

I’ve sent out several messages this morning

I hope I get a reply

Hope

Hope

Also, what the fuck is Tinder?

Are they going for a tinderbox, which you use to light fires,

Or is it like a tinderfoot, which I think is a scouting things but I’m not sure.

Which one am I hoping it is?

A fire or a thing for kids?

Is neither an option?

I mean, this is supposed to be a dating app

I don’t want to date fire

And I really don’t want to date kids.

Really

Really

Okay, maybe fire, but definitely not kids

I’ve sent out several messages this morning

Maybe I’ll get a response

Maybe I’ll be popular

Maybe I’ll get lots of responses

How much of a charge does my phone hold?

If I get a fuckton of messages, will my phone die by lunchtime?

Will this impact my bill?

If I get a lot of messages, will I go over my data limit?

I don’t want my carrier to charge me for overages

But I could take money out of my budget for overages

Do I really want to do that?

Maybe if I get some

I can finally budget out something for sex

What’s the usual single man’s budget for sex?

I’ve sent out several messages this morning

Here’s hoping for something good

Should I be drinking at this time of the morning?