Recently, at work, we've been trained to use Photoshop. I'm pretty new at this, so, keeping that in mind, here's a creation of mine that takes a still from the movie Sanjuro and an image of soon-to-be R & B superstar Radio:


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Tiny Silver Death Machine, Part 1: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/87366Read more... )

John Updike - The Afterlife
Saul Bellow - The Adventures of Augie March
Flannery O'Connor - Wise Blood
Philip Roth - Indignation
Flannery O'Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find

Currently Reading
Dennis Lehane - The Given Day

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_movie

I think the moment in Sweet Movie where one guy drinks another guy's piss-straight from the tap!-is the one moment in the film ( Read more... )

Though I'm no longer the rabid fan I once was, finding out David Foster Wallace had committed suicide was still a shock. All I know of the man comes from his works and the handful of interviews I've read; reading Infinite Jest, I felt as if it was coming from someone who knew pain and sadness and whatever else, but that that someone still "got" it ( Read more... )

Finished from the Previous Month
In the Beauty of the Lilies, by John Updike

Read This Month
Falconer, by John Cheever
Clockers, by Richard Price
Jesus' Son, by Denis Johnson
Herzog, by Saul Bellow
Of the Farm, by John Updike (*a reread)
Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell ( Read more... )

In an effort to save money and get rid of the beer belly that I'm still mostly in denial about, I have greatly reduced the amount of booze I purchase/consume. This has been easier than I thought it would be when I decided to do this, though it's come with one unexpected side effect: some people are simply intolerable to be around when they are ( Read more... )

Finished from the Previous Month
The Counterlife, by Philip Roth

Read This Month
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy (Trans. by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky)
Pnin, by Vladimir Nabokov
Cities of the Plain, by Cormac McCarthy

Now Reading
In the Beauty of the Lilies, by John Updike ( Read more... )

Finished from the Previous Month
The Ministry of Special Cases, by Nathan Englander

Read
Patrimony, by Philip Roth
The Enchantress of Florence, by Salman Rushdie
The Witches of Eastwick, by John Updike
Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie
Lost in the Funhose, by John Barth
Nazi Literature in the Americas, by Roberto Bolaño

Currently Reading
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Moments ago, at work, in the restroom mirror, I noticed a flesh tag on the right side of my neck. This joins company with a tag that was already on my neck, making for two. I'm not sure how long this new tag has been there, but, if my health insurance covers it, I may have it and the older one removed ( Read more... )