March 2010
1 post
February 2010
5 posts
Great Salinger Tribute
I wish I’d met the man. I hope he was happy. I worry sometimes that he wasn’t a happy recluse, but I like to think he was. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if he actually felt like he said all he needed to say and then just called it a day?
—Dave Eggers
Well, I am sixteen and find it shocking how cynical all of you adults are about our generation. We just read this book a few months ago and each and everyone of us loved it and felt a deep connection between ourselves and Holden. Times have not changed as much as you think. We are not as shallow as you think. Salinger’s novel is as universal as it is timeless. But I’m beginning to think that maybe...
January 2010
9 posts
Letters
Do you miss me? Do you love me? Are you keeping? I’m not. Not a bit.
I ought to write you seriously, I want to write you seriously, I will write you seriously, but not today. I can’t. The only way I can get through today is by reliving golden moments from my recent past. If I tried to think a thought or plan a plan all the little nylon threads that are holding me together...
December 2009
14 posts
Israeli Audiences
“So now, in Israel, I’m watching the film, and we get into the theater sequence. And literally, not when Hitler gets killed, but when you hear Shoshanna’s voice say, ‘This is the face of Jewish vengeance,’ the whole theater just erupted in applause. I think there were two guys that started it, but everyone jumped in. And you know something? It was violent. It was scary. There was violence in...
Moonface
Spencer Krug
My second favorite man in the world has released a new EP of marimba music.
It’s a 20 minute long track of marimba, drums, & voice under the title Dreamland EP: Marimba & Shit-Drums. You can download it here under the wonderful pay what you want model. It’s worth at least a buck. Give it a shot.
I venture into a dreamland where I am playing a glass guitar...
WatchAn Italian singer wrote a song in gibberish as an attempt to approximate English. He’s suprisingly not far off.
New Discovery
Third & Delaware
Chronicling the fashion choices of the cast of Roseanne.
Scariest Poem Ever
Read it to yourself aloud, at night.
Aubade
I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain-edges will grow light. Till then I see what’s really always there: Unresting death, a whole day nearer now, Making all thought impossible but how And where and when I shall myself die. Arid interrogation: yet the dread Of dying, and being...
Newest Discovery
from Momofuku:
Honeycrisp apple kim chi (with bacon, maple infused Labne cheese, and arugula)
John's Sermon
If my words are yours, can you hear my Father? Can Bill know my Father, keeping his eye on me? Can I bone Kai and Butchie know my Father instead? My Father’s shy doing his business. Kai helps my Father dump out. Bill takes a shot. Shaunie is much improved. Joe is a Doubting Thomas. Joe will save Not-Aleman. Joe will bring his buddies home. This is how Freddy relaxes. Cup-o’joe, and...
You are Elvis Presley. I am Andy Kaufman. One day I shall meet you. I shall shake your hand. I shall say “Hello.”
Andy Writes Elvis
Dave Eggers
response to a stupid interview question:
You want to know how big a sellout I am?
A few months ago I wrote an article for Time magazine and was paid $12,000 for it I am about to write something, 1,000 words, 3 pages or so, for something called Forbes ASAP, and for that I will be paid $6,000 For two years, until five months ago, I was on the payroll of ESPN magazine, as a consultant and sometime...
November 2009
16 posts
WatchAmbling Alp, Yeasayer
Song: A+
Video: A-
Watchthedailywhat:
AMAs: Lady Gaga performs “Bad Romance” / “Speechless.”
[via.]
In the saturation coverage right after the events, the “expert” talking heads are compelled to offer theories about the causes and consequences. In the following days and weeks, newspapers and magazine will have their theories too. Looking back, we can see that all such efforts are futile. The shootings never mean anything. Forty years later, what did the Charles Whitman massacre...
It Is Hovering and It Is Not an Aircraft
19:06:14 DSJ [Valentich]: Melbourne, this is Delta Sierra Juliet. Is there any known traffic below five thousand?
FS [Flight Services; Robey]: Delta Sierra Juliet, no known traffic.
DSJ: Delta Sierra Juliet, I am, seems to be a large aircraft below five thousand.
19:06:44 FS: Delta Sierra Juliet, What type of aircraft is it?
DSJ: Delta Sierra Juliet, I cannot affirm, it is four bright, and it...
Brian Dettmer
Brian Dettmer
October 2009
29 posts
John Berryman
“Henry does resemble me, and I resemble Henry; but on the other hand I am not Henry. You know, I pay income tax; Henry pays no income tax. And bats come over and they stall in my hair — and fuck them, I’m not Henry; Henry doesn’t have any bats.”
Dream Song 63
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made. Henry for joining...
