September 2011
1 post
Whitman’s America. Gets me everytime.
July 2011
2 posts
“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be...”
– John Adams via John Grubar at Daring Fireball
June 2011
4 posts
Watch
May 2011
2 posts
HTTP Status Codes as "Thats what she said" setups
411 Length Required
406 Not Acceptable
402 Payment Required
300 Multiple Choices
100 Continue
403 Forbidden
503 Service Unavailable
April 2011
1 post
The Kübler-Ross Stages of Grief adapted to explain...
Denial
“This bug should be easy to fix. 10 minutes, tops”
Anger
“Are you fucking kidding me, Google? 0 results?!? robots.fuckyou”
Bargaining
“Do we really need this to work? I mean we don’t really need to let users sign up, right? We’ve already got users, why do we need more?”
Depression
“Who even needs the internet. Animals...
March 2011
2 posts
“I’m sorry, this was insanely disrespectful. I’m not well. I wish i...”
– A youtube commenter’s plea for remorse (http://www.youtube.com/comment?lc=eNqWiLjgjcKTsATQeoRsPAaLr_3XvxEvC4e94TQqj3M)
Pretty girl you sure do smell pretty. Waft as you walk by. Walk by. Bye.
February 2011
1 post
What it takes
It takes seven innings to realize this isn’t the place you should be. It takes your friends a half-inning to fail to convince you to stay. It takes five minutes to leave the parking lot with fifty-thousand screaming fans inside, waiting for a pennant. It takes twenty minutes to drive to her suburban home just past the restaurent where you first met. It takes 10 minutes to work up the...
July 2010
1 post
June 2010
2 posts
“Moving to a new job is a lot like moving to a new school, for adults.”
– Me
April 2010
1 post
How a Book Publisher Failed to Get J.D. Salinger's... →
Oh god. I want to read that.
March 2010
7 posts
“And if I die—God forbid—I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge...”
– Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard - Lapham’s Quarterly
Who knew someone writing with his CAPS LOCK KEY STUCK would be able to impart some seriously wise-seeming writing advice:
IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA
From this memo from David Mamet to the writers of The Unit whose latest ratings aren’t looking so hot.
Competition - Reading David Foster Wallace on the... →
Win a copy of Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
View a slideshow of materials from the David... →
Werner Herzog as Plastic Bag →
Fighting to write: a short reminiscence of D.F.... →
Magazine Preview - The HBO Auteur - David Simon -... →
February 2010
4 posts
“In reading, one should notice and fondle details. There is nothing wrong about...”
– Good Readers and Good Writers :: Vladimir Nabokov « The Floating Library
“Herzog: Facts per se are not so interesting for me. Facts do not illuminate;...”
– Interview with Director Werner Herzog: ‘I Am Clinically Sane’ - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
WatchAll That - Episode #10 on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
On Language - Crash Blossoms - NYTimes.com →
January 2010
10 posts
YouTube - David Foster Wallace interview 2003 part... →
Is David Foster Wallace So 1990s? | Fiction →
Answer: nope
merlin:
Appreciating Donald Murray
(a/k/a, “Quit trying to make pigs out of sausage.”)
This used copy of Writing for Your Readers cost me US$2.97 used on Amazon Marketplace. So, imagine my surprise yesterday, when it arrived and I opened it to discover it’s autographed by Don Murray. With a funny little self-portrait doodle and all!
Made my day. Plus, it seems like a good omen, right?
...
Letters of Note: Slaughterhouse Five →
And then go read Slautherhouse Five if you haven’t.
“Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies...”
– I recently lost a pet, so this hit me like a sack of rocks, jagged, pointy rocks. via Rainbow Bridge, “Big Wave Rider” | The Awl
“If our rising need for mental-health services does indeed spring from a...”
– The Americanization of Mental Illness - NYTimes.com
THE INFLUENCE OF ANXIETY: The Real Top Gen X... →
Description for IJ: “Not sure I need to say much more on this topic. Wallace made the end note cool.”.
No. Say more
Booked Up, with Seth Colter Walls: An Incredibly... →
Seth Colter Walls gives a hearty and hilarious rebuke to a generally terrible “essay” by Katie Roiphe in which she does a piss-poor job representing Wallace’s writing and reveals in herself an at-best cursory knowledge of his oeuvre (look ma big words!).
December 2009
24 posts
A shortish review/rant on the soon to be over...
I’ll never forget where I was when this decade started. I was in my kitchen making my daily ketchup omelet when I felt my iPhone buzz in my pocket, alerting me to a new text message. It was 3 in the afternoon, and I remember smelling and hearing the coffee brewing as I slipped the iPhone from my pocket and seeing the text message from my friend Marty: “Turn on CNN”. Expecting...
best of craigslist: A letter to my dead girlfriend... →
while commentators everywhere declare the internet the death of writing and reading, people are out there living and dying and writing and reading.
“There’s the other thing: No guilt! The idea of a guilty pleasure?...”
– Andrew W.K. Interview via this insanely interesting metafilter thread
Dave Eggers interview: the heartbreak kid -... →
“But Wallace’s fractal-like attention to detail makes for surprisingly compulsive...”
– The waiting is the hardest part: 32 of our most anticipated 2010 entertainments
Actually it won’t (probably) have footnotes.
WatchSigur Ros - Við spilum endalaust - A Take Away Show on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
WatchMustard sings Creep on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
“I’m reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, and I seem to have...”
– Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus | Mother Jones
William Safire Rules of Writing | Apostate Café →
- And I would never make any of these mistakes, never ever!!
David Foster Wallace - Died Too Young - Newsweek... →
- In Peace
The Pale King - What we have so far
The Compliance Branch (PDF link)
Good People
Wiggle Room
All That
Irrelevant Bob (2 ms pages): 1 and 2
Possibly the three Lannan pieces is a TPK excerpt as well (PDF)
- From wallace-i archives
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The LipDub As a Way Out of Institutional Cynicism,...
In which LipDub’s have the power to turn an abstract institution into a group of people just like you and where cynicism is washed away while watching kids dance and sing or a hospital janitor dance with his mop and you just wish all corporations would just drop the $100m ad budgets and cut checks to charities and produce silly LipDubs of their employees and CXOs dancing to I Gotta Feeling...