Of interest today ( Read more... )

"...it occurred to me--not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like that, but merely as a novel experience--that since I had disregarded all laws of humanity, I might as well disregard the rules of traffic ( Read more... )

"She sat right in the focus of my incandescent anger. The fog of all lust had been swept away leaving nothing but this dreadful lucidity. Oh, she had changed ( Read more... )

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

The internet gives me a warm, melty feeling inside. Like the Outbreak bug liquefying my viscera, or an alien gestating in my tummy ( Read more... )

Helen could never tell what sort of day Garp had experienced by what he cooked for them; something special might mean a celebration, or it might mean that the food was the only thing that had gone well, that the cooking was the only labor keeping Garp from despair. "If you are careful," Garp wrote, "if you use good ingredients, and you don't take ( Read more... )

I've observed, with powers of literary apprehension about as deft as my powers of eating with chopsticks, that John Irving is hung up on a few things. On sex, for one: in particular, earnest, clumsy encounters that come out of nowhere and typically end in gonorrhea. I remember liking the clap scene in The Water-Method Man, and what remains of ( Read more... )

A hint of Christian Slater creeps into my voice, now and then--troubling. I resonate (-ish) among a few distinct modes these days, it feels like. A low, dry, even-clipped voice, which I regard as serious and academic and pale-buried-in-Talmud Jewish. With maybe a penumbra of much-missed Mike ( Read more... )

Daily digest ( Read more... )

Night walk around eleven. I'd like to stay out until dawn--sit in a tree with a watermelon, or something. The watermelon for seeds, the seeds for spitting. Pensively, or without a care. Versatile things watermelon seeds are ( Read more... )

It's been a month, so I finally got around to listening to those Mountain Goats albums. It's very pretty in places. You can find "We Shall All Be Healed" on my iTunes. I haven't decided on a favorite yet. No problem, anyway--it's a short album, and pleasant listening. Try "Your Belgian Things ( Read more... )