Horse_ebooks: Now on Gawker

                Horse_ebooks is the Shakespeare of flarf. Every tweet reeks of genius. I can’t begin to tell you how many young flarfers have given up the ghost due to Horse_ebooks. More poets are influenced by Horse_ebooks than by Emily Dickinson, according to a new Zogby poll that doesn’t exist.

                Today Horse_ebooks has come into the real world. The real world generally doesn’t have anything to do with poetry. By real world I mean Gawker. Gawker usually pays attention to various hip memes that have gone on for a while. Normally Gawker waits until critical mass to strike. And boy, they actually have a great article about the origins of Horse_ebooks by Adrian Chen.

                I often talk to people about Horse_ebooks. I talk to people about Horse_ebooks because I am a hip nerd. I have nothing better to do than read nonsense on the internet. Lately I have developed a particular taste for high quality nonsense. You really need to work at something in order to make it completely crazy and insane. People have told me they thought Horse_ebooks was some giant ‘Meta’ joke handled by a super genius. Few thought it was a randomly generated spam bot. They stated it was too consistently funny to be a spam bot.

                Well both parties are right. It is ‘handled’ by Alexey Kouznetsov, some guy from Russia. Apparently he has a bunch of these things, all these bots. He is pretty skilled with his work. He makes money from all these ebooks twitters. Yet perhaps he instilled a certain sense of magic with this spam bot. Perhaps this spam bot is some kind of Pinocchio. If a spam bot becomes funny enough it can evolve into its own Meme. 

                That’s what happened here. Horse_ebooks is so consistently funny. I mean these are some of the most amazingly random snippets you could possibly imagine. For those who can imagine more random things than ‘On Earth, another ambitious commander, Vice Admiral Montoya, is given the opportunity to advance beyond his wildest’ your mind is broken. Seek help. 

                 Adrian Chen wrote the wonderful piece about Horse_ebooks, explaining how Alexey makes money from the ebooks life. He travels around Europe using ebook and spam money. Most of the article explains in detail how one can go on the internet and still remain completely anonymous. The article goes over how exactly Adrian managed to track him down. I am impressed.  I got to admit, I am pretty tempted with this whole ebooks phenomenon. Thus far I only have one ebook. Now if I could create a sloth_ebooks twitter I think I may be able to solve my many money problems. 

                sloth_ebooks

                Oh drat.