The International anti-literacy conspiracy...

[i_need_the_eggs]

Goddammit already, why does school interfere with reading so fucking much! Kinda antithetical don'tcha think?

Stuff I've been Reading: February 2006

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 ed. Dave Eggers

Comments

[paperispatient]

Oh my gosh, I know, it's horrible how little I read when I'm at school.

[runlowarun]

I only read one complete book this month and it was for class!

[vangogh86]

sadly, it's really hard to read for pleasure in college...

have you read "a heartbreaking work of staggering genius" by david eggers?

[i_need_the_eggs]

No I haven't. It has been relegated to the pantheon of books that I "would fucking love, but don't have time to read"...eventually I'll get to it.

[run_me_down]

It is a widely accepted fact that school definitely gets in the way of college.

I read "Naked Lunch" while on the toilet last semester. I left it on the back of the throne in my suite for others to read, but many were opposed to its complicated language and use of anachronistic drug slang.

To each his own.

Furthermore, after getting off the phone with you the other night, I was not able to write a song about the tragic death of Don Knotts. Sadly, I fear he will be forgotten by most of America (at least the most important parts) unless we do something drastic.

I will call you after I've ingested several banned substances and figured out the details to my plan.

[i_need_the_eggs]

After reading some of the Beat generation writers, I really think we need to bring the term "tea" for the marijuana into common parlance.

As for the right, honourable Lord Knotts, I was thinking about maybe trying to work a comedic variety tribute hour a la a Bob Hope USO show mixed with Donny & Marie. In the best of all worlds Suzanne Summers would sing cabaret on top of Don Knotts' casket.