Oct 31 2008
I’m not sure what to call this or how to post it, which is why I’m posting it just as-is. Readers and writers are still feeling the aftershock of losing Wallace. I hate to sound sentimental about it or to attach too much affectation to my own response, but what bothers me most about his [...]
Oct 31 2008
Discover how to turn your book into a bestselling phenomenon when you buy a copy of my book today!
I hear that all the time. Every other “author” out there has some new self-help styled book about how to sell a million copies or earn a million dollars. All you have to do is buy the [...]
Oct 30 2008
Apparently there is a site one can visit that will calculate the value of your site…using a complex-systems algorithm similar to the one physicists and economists used to devise credit default swaps. As if I couldn’t feel any smaller, my father entered my site on my behalf. Ranking lower than twelve million, my site is [...]
Oct 26 2008
Homeland Security is monitoring you right now. The FBI is tapping all calls from your cell and home phone. They are listening to your conversations. They are tracking the GPS device in your phone. NSA is monitoring your e-mails. They are reading and scanning and saving your personal correspondences. They are putting you on their [...]
Oct 24 2008
Another one from NPR, and I don’t always think this is a good idea, since often times—and I’ve written about this before—an author’s voice doesn’t necessarily live up to our expectation, especially when we’re talking about writers who lived and worked at a time when print media dominated. For those writers, especially writers of my [...]
Oct 24 2008
I didn’t realize like Junot Diaz, like, you know, said like and you know so much, which I guess puts him in a similar category as with Wallace, but on a poor man’s plateau. I like Diaz. He’s a strong, abrasive writer, and all of his short stories read like a joke building up to [...]
Oct 15 2008
I’m sure I could cite most of this information if boxed into a six-figure corner. Some of it comes from CBS news, most from odds and ins across the internet. As far as I know, no one has compiled all this info into a coherent message on the deepest, darkest, most diabolical conspiracy theory my [...]
Oct 13 2008
I need to revise an earlier statement I made on this site about loathing pop art. It’s not that I loath pop art’s intrinsic qualities—though there are few to like—or even that I hate pop art as an idea floating independently on the chronological scale stemming almost exclusively from Warhol’s pragmatic conceptions. There is of [...]
Oct 09 2008
One reason I’m not writing in-depth about this year’s choice for the Nobel Prize in literature is because I’m not sure the Nobel Prize in literature carries much weight anymore. The prize is notoriously biased, elitist, political, Euro-centric, and extremely short-sighted. For many writers of my generation the prize is viewed as being out-dated and [...]
Oct 08 2008
Forgive me, Administrator, for I have sinned. It’s been almost a month since my last blog. Times have been tough and money is thin. Oh, the things I’ve considered doing for a little green. I’ve had many sinful thoughts. There are women everywhere here, and I want to fuck them all. But alas, Administrator, I [...]