My Seen Reading

After seeing Julie Wilson today, who writes the blog "Seen Reading," I feel inspired to tell you my own favorite seen readings because this is something I have paid attention to for years taking the bus and being an English major and blah blah blah.

1) guy with one hand reading a self-help book on dealing with being an amputee. Honest to God.

2) pretentious asshole everyday for a week on the bus reading my favorite doorstop, War
and Peace. He must have learned to read in the Japanese style (right to left) because he started on page 600 and worked his way through to about page 20. Obviously not reading it.

3)girl reading Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. Which was cute because I remember noticing that the episode of The Simpsons where Lisa goes to college and feels accepted because they were reading the book was on maybe 2 nights before.

So now I will briefly talk about publishing. I have NO idea what to do. When ambitious I guarantee I will find a publisher, but you have to be able to write...if I don't get published I guess my writing is just diary entries. I always thought the idea of self publishing preserved the struggle of the artist and was a romantic idea. Most books that are successfully published have a formula, and a couple are so earth shattering they slip through the cracks. All this talk about publishing has made me feel lazy, and I'm not. I guess I'm not starving enough to get published? Or connected enough?
I'm broke, I have that working in my favor.