Tipsy Tullivan is a platinum blonde white woman with long hair past her shoulders and long bangs. Her bangs are usually slanted. She always wears pink. She loves pink. She usually wears a pink bow around her neck. Her lipstick is garishly pink and she has kissed the NYT newspaper in the above image. She is wearing cat-eye, oversized sunglasses and smiling mischievously.

Tipsy is asleep right now. She has been taking a very long nap. Sometimes she wakes up to leave a Yelp review. Then she goes right back to sleep.

Tipsy’s vids appear in various places. How to Write for The New York Times appeared on the NYT opinion section of Facebook. How to Rush the Academic Job Market appeared on Inside Higher Ed. EZ Breezy Assisted Suicide appeared on Not Dead Yet.

Tipsy never appears in-real-life nor in-real-time. She is a fictional character in the tradition of Fernando Pessoa and Alex Bag. To create the web series, “Tips for Writers by Tipsy Tullivan,” I used a Panasonic Lumix and tripod and light boxes. I used iMovie for Facebook/YouTube and Wondershare Filmora for TikTok/IGTV. The series is autoschediastic and possibly ongoing.

In the meantime, I’m experimenting with cyborg sonnets/video sonnets. My protocols for these sonnets include: [1] video of 14-18 seconds; [2] access as compositional practice and aesthetic; [3] celebrity appearances; [4] “just go on your nerve,” said Frank O’Hara, as he made a perhaps accidental neurological poetics statement.