Cairo Smith
@cairoasmith
Sensitive young man. Film autark. Inscrutable liberal. Genre warlord. Multi-track drifter. Unreconstructed aesthete.
Here's some lore for new followers. (July 19 update.) I'm a writer and filmmaker, and have also worked in tech marketing. Born and raised in California. Ancestry is 🏴🏴🇱🇰🇵🇸. Been in the US since 17th century on the English/Southern side. I made my first feature film at 22 and…
Just coined a neologism. "What are you doing?" "I'm videoshopping Uncle Ted."
Really nice accessible infrastructure in Portland. I think I might be wokepilled. They should have just allowed the White Student Union and we could have kept the social justice instead of throwing it away.
Morning at the Clackamas Best Western. Stale scones sit under the heat lamps. Two elementary boys named Chet and Hunter are playing Roblox on the business center PC. They are visiting the server of IHEARTBINLADEN6. There are birds in the fir trees outside.
They might be on the Starbucks mural but none of these authors would actually be sold in Barnes & Noble if publishing today.
Third bookstore of the day. I don't usually go for labeling but it is OBVIOUS traditional publishing needs a YOUNG MEN'S SECTION with totally new staff at every point in the pipeline. Young Adult just means girls now. I mean, look at these titles. Until fixed boys won't read.
A man starts blasting music on the subway. Fifteen people around him are uncomfortable but say nothing. They are burdened by civility. Many such cases.
Just another day enjoying industrial society and its consequences.
I'm interpreting this as a threat, and will order 300 copies to stave off Mr Cairo's wrath.
You WILL be reading.
As you wish. I shall finally properly check out @heavytrafficmag.
This one
FUTURIST LETTERS spotted in the wild at CHESS CLUB PDX, intimately nestled next to KGB LIT MAG of all things. Either we or KGB are never beating the allegations.
Many are, apparently, saying this?
🎶... 🎶... - Speak. - I don't know, I'm conflicted.. but there's something about him. - You mean @cairoasmith? - Yes. Scenebux. I'm obsessed. - Hang up, now. I'm coming over. ..click
In my culture we have a traditional monster called the hikanamaru, a wandering feminist witch-fox who devours publishers that try to use her as flavor in upmarket fantasy fiction.
Meanwhile in the unironic dream of a certain indie press owner who wants to run the Kennedy Center:
Excited to announce a huge contract with the department of defense in the coming weeks. We're going to be producing all the governments shitty print on demand literary fiction and poetry for $30 billion per year