BEACH SLOTH a semi-comprehensive guide to BEACH SLOTH

I will attempt to do a few things in this blog post.

1. Illuminate the figure and spirit of Beach Sloth.
2. Outline successful pieces crafted by Beach Sloth.
3. Signify the cultural relevance of Beach Sloth.
4. Paste some nice things Beach Sloth has said of Frank Hinton.
5. Chant

WHO IS ?

"Beach Sloth" has crafted an extensive blog-portrait of me at his blog "Beach Sloth"

Beach Sloth has become known to me via DADAGATE... see THIN EYEBROWED KAT DIXON and SLOTH'S RESPONSE.

Beach Sloth seems highly intelligent, playful and relevant. Beach Sloth seems to have a powerful sensory taste in music. I like "Beach Sloth". It feels like Beach Sloth is behind "Let People Poems"

Beach Sloth blogs "extensively" and stands to break his blogging record of 2010 this year. 178 posts since January is very impressive to me/makes me horny.

WHAT DOES ?

Here are 3 posts I thoroughly enjoyed on Beach Sloth's Blogspot:

1. Re Hipster Runoff

Illuminations on Gawker's premature funeral for HRO. Profession of love for my existential jesus CARLES.

2. Reactions to Facebook Relationship Status Update

Breakdown of potency surrounding the socially networked human's relationship status. Pixelated, almost red half-broken heart emoticon.

3. My emotionless, vaguely unsuccessful future

BS/SG sees his future roll out before him by glancing through the lens of Mike Judge's cultworthy? film EXTRACT.


4. Here is a bonus "amazing" post by Beach Sloth where he profiles Richard Chiem.

BONUS: CHIEM



MY VIEW ?

Beach Sloth seems a worthy person to pay attention to and follow. He has peaked my interest to higher levels than most blogs. His writing has becoming highly attentive to "internet poetry" with a strong focus on Steve Roggenbuck, Poncho Peligroso and the tribe of HTMLminimalist boykittens meowing about the litsphere.

Here are some kind things Beach Sloth said of "Frank Hinton"


1. By using an obvious pseudonym, it makes things more interesting. Her online persona is extremely shadowy, mysterious. We don’t really know much about her besides her writing. Keeping mysterious yet accessible makes the work more interesting, as I find it can be easier to write something when I know I’m anonymous. The pain of writing something with your actual name attached probably contributes to a great deal of dishonesty within literature, as if the writer is trying to impress you in some small way. Frank Hinton’s writing is direct painfully so at times.


2. Her piece for Lamination Colony, called “How to be Me, an Instructional Video narrated by Frank Hinton” shows a certain playfulness. In here you learn how to hate people on a bus, chew off your fingernail in public (which is an actual skill) and how to avoid negative thinking upon waking up. Since she does have this on the internet, she explains how to post online in order to flame or remain anonymous (both good choices). Along with these apparent instructions is the final sentence which states “You were once a child and you had it all”. That’s probably one of my favorite lines of hers. Children get lucky with the amount of happiness they get. Then come teenage years they grow overly angst-ridden and depressed. Finally, in their twenties they begin trying to improve themselves through questionable practices of self-help, self-improvement and other endeavors of dubious merit.

3. Part of my joy reading these are how well she describes various feelings about love. Love is a difficult thing to write about without falling into the extremes of anger, sadness, despair, happiness, coy, and so on. Frank Hinton avoids these. She writes things with an honesty that’s hard to find. Being honest could be funny or tragic, it depends on the circumstances and often her work can be both.  Her chapbook will explore these themes even further. 


CHANT NOW ?

Now I will create a chant which serves to enforce the fact that Beach Sloth is a vital entity. Please read this next section aloud and know that I have done so myself. I did not copy and past this. Each character was typed out by my own shadowy fingers. Dim the lights.

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