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Due to all the moving around I did, I only have the slightest idea why any of this is my 'thing,' but pretty much this track is the best thing to come out the year and to not hear it blaring out every window is proof that we will die apart as fools, etc.
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I got to use my computer for eight hours (broken DVD drive, constant restarts) before something entirely new went wrong (backlight of monitor conked out.) When you buy Gateway, you are not just buying a computer, you are also buying a little bundle of unsolvable problems.

I am actually in Death Valley now, twenty months after talking about it so glowingly. I stayed in Zion until last October, until I could use a Daft Punk concert as an excuse to get out. I spent seven months at the south rim of the Grand Canyon, with all the convinences of the city--a library, plentiful Internet, a cemetary--and kept walking ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/books/14wallace.htmlI read A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, his first essay book, during the summer of 2002; I was supposed to be getting a job but it didn't feel as imperative as snarling at his tennis anecdotes, chuckling over his giving Frank Conroy shit for writing a brochure, going through the whole ( Read more... )

"Another suspect was the ringleader of the Lobster Circus, who lashed at a wagon-ring of these unresponsive creatures as though at the advancing spawn of the devil. 'The time will come,' he announced, 'when these mothers will be silent.' And at that he laid the whip into a lobster positioned side-on to him, breaking it in half ( Read more... )

I'm not in Death Valley. I'm at the south rim of the Grand Canyon, working at a job where the clear highlight of my work is staring out the windows and the best part about my day is that the sun will set. The pay is worse, people stay here for decades, shoveling snow, out of inertia, the food costs actual money instead of being magically whisked ( Read more... )