the internet, pt. IV

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pointless internet daisychain

Productivity asymptotically approaching 0. I like the literary saloon. I think it’s funny that they call a NYT article about Bolaño’s alleged heroin use stunningly uninformative. I appreciate their grouchy, translation-obsessed English righteousness. I met a nice guy who likes to talk about his former alleged heroin use. I just coined the phrase “human acid [...]

Venus on the Half-Shell

via Anna: an interesting 1000-strong megalist of essential novels from the Guardian. Scrolling through, noticed a novel filed under “Comedy,”: Venus on the Half-Shell, by Kilgore Trout. Is that a joke? KT is a fictional Vonnegut character! But behold: It lives! Weird.

induction

Over the last week or so, I’ve occasionally heard hilarious, breathless, deranged readings of Elizabeth Alexander’s Presidential inauguration poem, “Praise Song for the Day,” on WFMU. This morning, as it happened, DJ Kenny G was doing an entire show devoted to different listeners’ remixes and interpretations. Some of the funniest ones, in my opinion, don’t [...]

nsf you

    ‘you have model breath’ by quilty   ‘you have model breath’   your breath smells like teeth stung by the acid of stomach bile   like come and smoke & & &   no bread, say that much, no mayo, the little hairs inside Tod’s nostrils, those “gay tubes of leather” (Anonymous)   [...]

“Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle”

You know how your little brother Spronky covers his eyes and thinks that means you can’t see him? That’s what I’m doing today here on my blog. My paws are over my eyes. You can’t see me. I’m writing in my journal. There is a hot babysitter kneeling next to an ottoman. It is 1989. [...]

world records

bersa discos

heyyyyyy tommy had this book, it looks awesome quoinstone sent this, it’s fun I’m feeling uninspired, Internet you little Internet, you Jawbone’s inspired keep it coming, bro Listening to the radio, I became psyched about a litany of remixy cumbia things: Uno *** &&& #$# Facebook has been cracking me up James Crabtree sent a [...]

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