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 […]
Excerpt! First line of Villa Incognito: It has been reported that Tanuki fell from the sky, using his scrotum as a parachute. currently playing: Messiah “Temple of Dreams”
Interesting little piece on ‘the ID myth’ from Futurismic.com which is next in line to join the blogroll…
Doctorow does it again: Eastern Standard Tribe. Download your free copy now. Then buy. B/c this man is brilliant and needs to be read. Here’s a thing I’ve noticed about the present: more people are reading more words off of more screens than ever before. Here’s another thing I’ve noticed about the present: fewer people […]