Bananas, the fruit. I can’t get enough of them and whenever I eat them I think of the main character in The Hotel New Hampshire whose name I cannot remember who eats bananas and runs all the damn time because he wants to be a good wrestler. He does this because the grandpa tells him [...]
Aug 22 2004
200 pages later
instead of working on my own stories or cleaning a closet, i opted for reading. i plowed through the last 200 pages of Dan Chaon’s You Remind Me of Me. it was disappointing. a story of two half-brothers and their crazy mother. the book jumps back and forth through time, never allowing you to really [...]
Aug 01 2004
this is the last day of my vacation
since this is the last day of my current vacation i’ve been spending it exactly the way i want. thus far it has included lounging in bed, reading Love and Hydrogen, listening to the rain outside, and intermittently napping. it’s a tough life, but somebody’s gotta lead it. now that i’m actually vertical, i’ll probably [...]
Jun 16 2004
hear my little heart pound
because apparently you are not the mindless masses that i had so been hoping for, i had to go out and buy myselfDavid Foster Wallace’s Oblivion. can you hear my little heart pound with excitement? but don’t worry, if you feel the need to buy me a book, i really, really, really, really, really, really, [...]
