Reviews, Top N lists, and other sundry literary stuff.
Despite my best efforts, my body up and succumbed to the Great Mauve Plague of ’05 that’s been traipsing around the office of-late. /le sigh, indeed. Fortunately, I fell to its gnarly powers on a day where A had few obligations ’round the lab so she’s opted stay home and take care of me. Thus […]
Nice little condensed piece from techsoup.org on setting up an OS X server. Saving for later… *snip!* Another idea I find very appealing: iPod shuffles at libraries for Audible content. Supa cool. On the close to home front: “Dartmouth retools for Wi-Fi video”— Potentially disastrous if not executed properly. If I’m reading this correctly, this […]
Big, thankful shouts out to A’s long-time friend Deborah for sending us The Big Book of Weirdos. This rare gem off DC Comic’s “Factoid Books” line is a neat little 223 page B/W graphic w/ these abbreviated bios of some of history’s carbuncular freaks, black magickers, wealthy weirdos, and out-and-out wack-jobs. Everyone from Nikolai Tesla […]
Seems B is a machine for turning my time into quiz-taking-sessions at the moment… What Kind of Geek are You? Name DOB Favourite Color Your IQ is very high You are a word nerd Your strength is you actually have social skills Your weakness is caffine You think normal people are aliens Normal people think […]
Currently digesting… Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace — left off w/ the thought “death by Drano does not look pretty” Fluke (or, I Know Why The Winged Whale Sings) by Christopher Moore (yes, that Christopher Moore) — a delightful birthday surprise. This guy reads like two parts Tom Robbins, one part Neal Stephenson (think […]
(quickie follow up to last night’s post…) May be worthwhile to track Orin Incandenza’s role (esp. vis a vis Hal) throughout the course of the Infinite Jest text. Orin is perhaps a more important character to track when charting Himself’s arc (in a “behind the behind the story” fashion) than Hal (or even Mario!) esp. […]
As I settle in for read #3 of D.F. Wallace’s Infinite Jest, I try to identify what pulls me back into this massive tome yet again. As JK would say, “You’re just fulfilling the thesis all over again.” Yeah, I know. But that’s not the point. From my first time through I gleaned two major […]
Infinite Jest kabbala. It’s the only possible explanation.
As is the tradition, I take a friend’s idea and follow up on it. Giving you… Top 5 novels/stories that I would like to adapt for film: Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson “Angel” – Pat Cadigan Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace 1 “Hinterlands” – William Gibson Grendel – John Gardner Top 5 books I […]
In the midst of Doctorow’s Eastern Standard Tribe at the moment and it is just as sickly mindblowing and insightful and genius as Down and Out…: Beauty, too. Your local definition of attractive and ugly was conditioned by the people around you at puberty. There was a Pacific “look” that was indefinably off. Hard to […]