johnny— my cat threw up this morning i got dehydrated trying to imitate her. i’m very thirsty.
Tim Horvath— Yeah, man, if you’re reading Infinite Jest your Kindle ought to expand like a blooming onion or a book dunked in water. For a while no one I knew had finished IJ, and then one day I spotted a young woman close to the finish. She had less than a hundred pages to go. I...
LK— #1 is exactly the thing that makes me think I’ll never get one: there’s no difference in the HEFT of reading War and Peace or Infinite Jest and Jesus’ Son or A Personal Matter. The weight of the pages, left and right, is like driving across country knowing you’ve...
Hugh— so ZZZZIPP is to HTMLGIANT what ZODIACMOTHERFUCKER is to the AV Club comments sections? with the all-caps, and the ironical self-referential bullshit? awesome. I don’t come here often, I think for some reason I stopped reading this site after the redesign, whenever that was (like...
Hugh— It’s a direct copy in many ways of The Lost Generation, a video first posted on the youtubes two years ago: http://youtu.be/42E2fAWM6rA Yeah, sure, you can say it’s OK to copy something — and usually i’d be totally fine about it — but this is too similar...
zusya— to: stephen, et. al re: seriousness there’s a treasure trove of things in life worth taking seriously, and i imagine that a lot of the people that will even end up reading what i’m writing in this space will feel the same way, especially when it comes to whatever-you-think...
stephen— your points seem very fair. thanks, tim. you’re right that DFW’s work is at times a commentary on the nature of commentary, although i think the end goal is to describe “what it feels like to be a fucking human being,” which is also tao’s end goal,...
zusya— this phrase — “calculated stories” — really drew me in.
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ha ha, great
up in jersey and got the ny daily news who called the movie apocalypse porn
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yes with that spelling
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I swear I saw that turkey in a David Lynch movie!
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