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Friday Videos Like Girls Who Read
by SB Sarah | by SB Sarah | March 09, 2012 | Friday at 12:29 am | 28 CommentsFrom several awesome people comes this video of spoken word poet Mark Grist, discussing what he likes:
Hope your weekend is full of the books that make you happy and thinky
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Tagged: romance, poetry, mark grist, awesomesauce
MissB2U said on 03.09.12 at 01:24 AM • [link]
Sigh. He so totally gets it. How hot is that?
bookstorecat said on 03.09.12 at 02:42 AM • [link]
This video makes me want some CAKE.
Amandag18 said on 03.09.12 at 08:27 AM • [link]
*swoon*
Lizzie R said on 03.09.12 at 08:58 AM • [link]
Oh yes - he definitely gets it and it is totally hot. That just made my day - fantastic.
Tam B. said on 03.09.12 at 09:45 AM • [link]
Well he just got a whole heap of SBTB fans I’m sure. I forwarded this to my book club ladies and my husband. He just totally gets it. Thanks for making my day.
CarrieS said on 03.09.12 at 11:12 AM • [link]
WOW.
Jami JoAnne Russell said on 03.09.12 at 11:24 AM • [link]
This man needs to be used to inspire a romance novel hero, now.
Jules said on 03.09.12 at 11:28 AM • [link]
*swoons* i think I need a fainting couch and some smelling salts. How sexy was that?!
garlicknitter said on 03.09.12 at 11:59 AM • [link]
Hubba, hubba. I’m in love. I want that man. And he wants me, too; I can tell.
Jezmorrow said on 03.09.12 at 12:28 PM • [link]
Take me now.
Geekgirl said on 03.09.12 at 01:07 PM • [link]
That was unbelieveably hot.
DreadPirateRachel said on 03.09.12 at 01:26 PM • [link]
Oh, Mark. All us reading girls want you, too.
Also, I totally read the back of corn flakes boxes. And menus. And signs, and detergent bottles, and receipts, and random bits of paper that I find lying around my apartment, and CD liner notes, and shipping invoices.
Laurie said on 03.09.12 at 01:31 PM • [link]
It’s amazing how attractive a person can become just because of words!
cleo said on 03.09.12 at 01:45 PM • [link]
Me too. And random flyers handed out on the street, and discarded papers next to my seat on the el. I haven’t stooped to digging a book or paper out of the trash yet, but I don’t see it as completely impossible - I mean, if it looked clean and I didn’t have anything to read and no one were looking, I’d probably do it.
DreadPirateRachel said on 03.09.12 at 02:31 PM • [link]
For sure. I’m probably one of the few people who actually read the adverts on the inside of the public transit (mostly for Planned Parenthood, as it turns out). And I’m not going to lie; I’ve stooped to stealth reading the newspaper of the commuters opposite me.
moviemavengal said on 03.09.12 at 02:43 PM • [link]
Loved this video and went on a video search to see if he had any more poetry videos online (he does), but found this very interesting news report video about him.
http://youtu.be/APGihNfiemM
Mark was an English teacher who went viral in a video where he wages a verbal battle with a teenaged rapper. I watched the whole rap battle and it was fascinating. He now does comedy/poetry shows and education workshops.
Coolio!
tikaanidog said on 03.09.12 at 03:39 PM • [link]
freakin’ awesome :)
@DreadPirateRachel re stealth reading newspapers - I have SO done that, too! LOL! usually on a plane at takeoff and landings when my ereader has to be turned off :P
Donna said on 03.09.12 at 05:54 PM • [link]
ME TOO! I thought I had a disease. And I know what’s in a colonoscopy prep because I was too groggy to grab my book, and then too awake to just, well, sit there…. Well, that’s probably a little TMI. Sorry.
And why isn’t this man in my life? I want him. Bad. Wait, I think I can answer my own question. See above.
DONNA said on 03.09.12 at 09:40 PM • [link]
What a coinkydink… I like a man who reads. A match made in heaven, or a library, or a bookstore…....
Donna 2
Sofia Harper said on 03.10.12 at 02:54 AM • [link]
He just might be the sexiest man alive.
Jami JoAnne Russell said on 03.10.12 at 12:13 PM • [link]
BTW his website is http://markgrist.com/
You know, Thursday my male coworkers revealed to me they like hanging around me because I read a lot and therefore say interesting things. (Course they’re librarians so they’re probably biased.) Then this video shows up.
Jennifer Worrell said on 03.10.12 at 06:03 PM • [link]
It helps that his hair is just a little bit messed up. It’s just screaming for a smart bitch like one of us to tousle it, n’est pas?
Anony Miss said on 03.10.12 at 06:04 PM • [link]
I may have to wake my husband up to make sure he appreciates me enough.
Floffy1983 said on 03.10.12 at 06:37 PM • [link]
when they ask what i read (meaning hight litrerature) i answer anything, i am a compulsive reader
ksattler said on 03.11.12 at 04:40 PM • [link]
that is so wonderful!
Jenyfer said on 03.11.12 at 06:43 PM • [link]
Oh my! I love his attitude and his accent! :)
Jami JoAnne Russell said on 03.11.12 at 06:44 PM • [link]
I must admit I feel like trying a verse.
I’m sure I’ve written much worse.
As word of Mark Grist’s love of reading girls spreads,
he best look out where he treads.
For not too long from now you’ll see,
reading girls will rip his clothing off as if he was Elvis Presley.
Yes, I can be quite a dork.
Oh look, I found a spork!
I think I shall name is Bjork.
And I’ll mail it to New York.
*runs away and hides before anyone can start throwing rotten fruit*
Theresa Meyers said on 03.12.12 at 08:25 AM • [link]
Love that! Of course beyond the fact that it’s brilliant poetry, I love just listening to his accent!
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