Its true: David Foster Wallace has apparently committed suicide. In a proto-bloggian world of misnomers, unknowns, complexity beyond human comprehension, and empty celebrity gossip truths, there are still a few soldiering on in the old ranks of modernist literature and the ‘big’ novel… and every time we lose one of them, the world grows [...]
Remember when the hippie connection used to work? When old friends could count on old friends– for a bed if not then a sofa, if not then a scrap of rig. No more. In the context of extreme strain we can meet in honesty only those who are willing to be as absurd– as lively– in the idea. Not [...]
In ancient time of Victorian Literature, there came an invention of wonderous extremes to threaten the secret lives of all the plants, excluding of course, the Day of the Triffids references: and yea, such an invention did bring joy to many readers of those called books upon the planet: and yea thusly, did the books, [...]
Jonathan Lethem on Palmer Eldritch has a humorous take on the finances of Jonathan Lethems open source proposition of a dollar for intellectual re-property rights. Now, microfinance is ultra hip, and beyond hipness, its ultra-digital, ultra-subdividable, and can fit in your pocket like the latest RFID chips or ultra cool motorola micro-cell phone (choking hazard [...]
Book Reviewers and other sordid web scrapers have all participated in the latest naming fad.. the Ian craze. Take a word, and plug an Ian onto it… and you have an instant travesty of the English Language. Now, the Bloggian was an early starter here, admittedly.. but we are not responsible for the mass lemmingization [...]
Apocryphal literature has accelerated down the path towards doom, gloom, and pure Apocalypse with the advent of a new demographic amongst readers: doom readers. No longer are doomsayers the sole provenance of the Apocolypse. And with the rise of readers of the Apocalypse, the approach of the end of the world begins its logrythmic rise. [...]
The Financial Records of Thomas Pynchons Against The Day have been opened for review by MICHIKO KAKUTANI on the New York Times, and she has found the papertrail less than comfiting for an account manager so devoted to his accounts that even Bartleby the Scrivener might pass him by on one dark night high in [...]
Global Warming Warnings have the possibility of burying life on Earth under a stultifying swamp of warming bureaucratic global nanogoo, United Nation Inc. Secretary General Kofie Ainnan (no relation to UN Secretary General) said today in a conference on environmental problems. The United States however immediately rejected a plea by world U.N. Secretary General Kofi [...]
Sun today started the release of the Java source code into the wilds, but critics are not happy. Problems with java have long Eclipsed the mindsets of such critics, and have released threads of heavy memory usage and sluggish interfaces to the world of “happy thought”. But by Sun releasing the Java source code in [...]
Goose Hunting and Nascar Out Goosebumps, Car Naps In
With Rumsfelds resignation and steep loses in the House and Senate America is seeing a shift away from Nascar racing, Goose hunting, and church cookies. It is not clear what …
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