1. The fact that my copy of Infinite Jest, which I had overnighted to me (via FedEx) from my house, is stuck somewhere in a FedEx warehouse in Baltimore because, the website claims, of “incorrect address” (no!) and I am terrified it will get lost somewhere in the warehouse or in transit and I will have to mourn my copy.
“Why don’t you just get another one?”
“Because that one is MINE. It’s where I put the orchid petal to dry it. It’s where my notes are. It has a life, and if one of your children gets lost, you don’t just buy another one.”
2. David Foster Wallace is quickly gaining iconic, and beloved (important differentiation) status in my mind, and this is…scary?
3. On August 31st, in the HBO documentary series:
Youth Knows No Pain: Follows filmmaker Mitch McCabe, the age-obsessed daughter of a plastic surgeon, as she journeys through America’s $60 billion a year anti-aging world. In this “Alice in Wonderland” tale, McCabe spends two years traveling across the country visiting doctors and experts, living with a cross-section of characters from Minnesota to Texas who have gone to varying lengths to “beat the clock.”
4. Ted Hughes, and Sylvia Plath, specifically in light of:
“Their heads fell apart into sleep like the two halves
Of a lopped melon, but love is hard to stop
In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs
In their dreams their brains took each other hostage
In the morning they wore each other’s face” (Hughes)
And Assia Wevill, of course.
5. The fact that when I went to the grocery store last night, I wanted to buy an avocado, and noticed that all the rock hard avocados had stickers on them that said, “RIPE NOW,” which is a fucking LIE! I can tell you’re not ripe, and just because you wear a little button saying you ARE doesn’t mean I’m going to be fooled into believing you. Asshole.
6. Shoes
7. I’ve never listened to This American Life and I feel super inadequate for this reason. I always plan to and it always gets away from me.
8. I don’t know all the details of the Henry Louis Gates case, and insert consequences drawn from #7 here.
9. Calvinball, from Calvin and Hobbes
10. All the things I’d like to write that “later when I have time”, which…never? comes.
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