Tao explains why Lorrie Moore inspires him in a very inspiring fashion. Indeed, I feel quite inspired to read Lorrie Moore and to sell her products on Amazon using my Amazon affiliate code. I also feel an overwhelming desire to read more heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com as it will likely inspire me to accomplish things that Tao has and I haven’t but probably should have by now.

Reading about Tao’s inspiration and admiration of Lorrie Moore makes me think of his new book. Feels eerie to see this post at the same time that a book that best embodies Tao’s talents and realizations of inspiration and this sentence is making me nauseous. It is called Shoplifting from American Apparel. I read it one night in bed while my girlfriend was sleeping. She dislikes when I read while she is sleeping because sometimes the light wakes her. I feel that was the most appropriate setting for me to read Shoplifting from American Apparel.

The book is imminently practical and it made me laugh sometimes. I think a lot of people are saying that about Tao’s new book, that it makes them laugh. I agree. I liked to read words like “MySpace” and “Internet Explorer” and “Gmail” in print. Reading about the experiences of Sam and Luis made me feel like my life is “real” somehow, that maybe it’s OK to be “fucked” because at least you could write a story about it. It doesn’t have to be boring, the Internet experience. It depends on how you think about it and reading Shoplifting in American Apparel made me think about it in a more “real” sense.

Shoplifting in American Apparel is an excellent book and I think the Generations X-iPod would surely appreciate it’s wit. Back to Lorrie Moore, again, the blog Tao wrote in June 2005 about Lorrie Moore (again) is interesting because Tao eventually capitalized on the inspiration he derived from Lorrie Moore as per this blog by writing a book called Shoplifting in American Apparel. I think this is very uplifting but at the same time kind of weird to read in light of the prsent day situation. I am very happy for Tao though, for having been inspired by Lorrie Moore and I think I should write about who inspires me on my blog. Probably I would say Tao Lin, among others.

In conclusion, I wonder what Tao thought about Thomas Pynchon at the time of writing lorrie moore (again).