Monthly Archives: July 2010

The Sleepiness of the Text

July 23, 2010 – 9:04 am

I found this passage from The Pleasure of the Text gratifying: And yet, it is the very rhythm of what is read and what is not read that creates the pleasure of the great narratives: has anyone ever read Proust, Balzac, War and Peace, word for word? (Proust’s good fortune: from one reading to the [...]

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enrollment

July 19, 2010 – 12:50 pm

My “Fake Spanish for Beginners and Experts” class is almost full! Buy the textbook here, and sign up online here! Enroll today!

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Childhood Chores

July 19, 2010 – 12:39 pm

THE DEVIL [Looks like a male stripper]: As it happens, you left a few chores from childhood unfinished JONATHAN [Looks like a graphic novelist from Brooklyn]: I’m thirty-six years old DEVIL: I know how old you are. You didn’t take out the trash, and the kitchen wasn’t mopped three times J: That house was sold [...]

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Two Dream Attacks

July 15, 2010 – 2:13 pm
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hypothetical diet

July 15, 2010 – 10:52 am

No meat unless I’m a guest in someone’s home or under some sort of culinary travel-duress No alcohol unless I am in love [Coffee restrictions will require their own post; it's too complex to get into now] No marijuana except as an aphrodisiac or if a critic I respect writes convincingly that a film or [...]

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Famous &&Tori Amos + Andy Spelling(/Griffith-Bee (movies]

July 15, 2010 – 9:32 am

Caught a light depression. Now that depression is a disease, it’s easier to just come down with a little malaise, same as you would a seasonal cold. A sneeze’s worth of sadness. I’m glad Animal Collective is such a popular band. They deserve it. Maybe not personally, who knows, maybe those guys have hurt so [...]

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recent activity

July 14, 2010 – 11:46 am
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Spraining mouth fear

July 9, 2010 – 3:20 pm

How dare you blog at a time like this. Have you any idea what italicized rage I go through when I see you tab open a new browser window? This world isn’t turning because of inertia, blood. It spins because of science. And science isn’t going to put any italicized food on the table. Give [...]

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personal webdiary

July 7, 2010 – 4:06 pm

Just bought a $1 used copy of Rogue Male on the Internet based on a one-sentence zero-argument recommendation from a respected reader-colleague-friend (“Read Rogue Male!”). Found out after I placed the order (shipping from Texas cost three times as much as the book) that it was reissued in 2007 by NYRB Classics. I have had [...]

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