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Prestige. Worldwide.
David Foster Wallace said, "Fiction's about what it is to be a human being."
Well, now, so is blogging, Dave.
Well, now, so is blogging, Dave.
~ Wednesday, December 14 ~
~ Monday, June 27 ~
#Yanks win!!!
~ Monday, December 20 ~
Survived Santarchy in Scottsdale last night. Barely. Today hurts.
~ Friday, December 17 ~
Amazing Factoid Du Jour: The mere sight of Conan O’Brien’s hair sends Yorkshire Terriers into a PANICKED FRENZY!
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~ Thursday, December 16 ~
Just discovered this Fermata-era interview with Nicholson Baker (and Erica Jong, et al.) and am looking forward to watching it in the lead-up to publication of his next sex novel, which is due out in August and already traumatizing Young Manhattanite.
I love The Fermata, a book about a guy who stops time to undress women, but at least a couple good friends of mine hate it and/or think it’s a crock (whereas my pal D.E. Rasso is merely lukewarm), and it’s clear from Baker’s comments in an old interview with Laura Miller for Salon that they’re not alone.
Half the people who read [The Fermata] just hated me. So I didn’t have [the] feeling of being part of the chortling mass of humanity…. It’s bewildering to write about sex because you get this chorus of horrified people who say, “What has he done, what has happened to our little Baker who used to write about the earplug and now he’s writing these ‘grisly sex scenes,’” which was a phrase from a review. Especially in England. It’s interesting to watch reviewers. You can see them on the page thinking, “How can we really put his eye out? How can we hit him so hard that he bleeds from the spleen? I know how we can do it, we can say that it seemed as if his early books were interesting, but really they were symptomatic of a mental deviation that now is clear with The Fermata. We can say not only that The Fermata stinks, but that it invalidates all of his earlier work.” Maybe it was in part because the book sold really quite well there and was number one on the bestseller list. It seemed to cause a sort of teeth-clenched hate over there.
Side note for anyone who was in elementary school during the Clinton administration (no judgment, just sayin’): Baker’s 1992 novel Vox, “a dialogue between a man and a woman on a sex chatline, achieved notoriety when it cropped up in the Starr report in a list of gifts given by Monica Lewinsky to Bill Clinton.”
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The 2010 Beck Apocalypse: A Year of Lies in Review
Glenn has taken everything conservatives have done and want to do (publicly) and leveled them at the door of the left. It isn’t the work of a few minutes to show what he has done. Google or Bing it,…
~ Wednesday, December 15 ~
“ As the health care debate was reaching a high point last year, a leaked e-mail shows Bill Sammon asked his news department to refer to the public option as the “government run option.
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The Tree of Revenge Does Not Carry Fruit
I felt like today was a good example of how quickly one’s mood can spiral out of control over something that, in the long run, is beyond trivial. I always find myself watching the Amazing Race and chastising the teams that don’t know how to keep their cool. C’mon. You’re on television, you’re in China trying to find the blue grain of rice in a 2 ton rice pile. Just buckle down and focus! Quit being so damn frantic!
Yeah. I got my car towed today from the parking lot of the building that I work in and I was on the verge of figuring out ways to get back at the property manager that would most likely end in my arrest. But, God dammit, I would get my point across. Just march over there and kick the door off the hinges and let them have a piece of my mind!! That will teach them to tow my damn car when I park it in a spot that it’s not supposed to be in!
And there in lies the rub. I was in the wrong. I know this. But the world still owed me for the amount of time it took to get that thing out of the impound lot (which was crawling from people that looked like extras on “Intervention”. You ever watch that show? It’s awesome.)
So what did I do? I bitched and moaned at those around me that would listen, went to the store, bought a chicken, mac and cheese, ate, drank a glass of milk and watched a Christmas movie. But it begs reflection. On my part at least. It’s really easy to see the way other people react to things and think, “Man, that guy’s a moron. I totally would have handled that better.” Today - I was that moron. I even deleted Facebook because Time picked Mark Zuckerberg for Person of the Year over Julian Assange. What the hell did Zuckerberg even do? He was portrayed as a douche in a movie and made the “New Profile” which is just….ugh. Crap - here I go again…
But, you know how long my account was deleted for? About 17 minutes. After heavy reflection I realized that my response was just silly. That and sitting in an office by myself at 3:30 in the afternoon is infinitely more boring if I can’t cyber stalk people.
~ Monday, December 13 ~
“ All my dreams are with this team,” Montero told the Scranton Times-Tribune. “Whatever they do, I’m going to have to live with it. But I want to stay here. I love the Yankees.
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