2009

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Elsewhere Jest
Roundup
08.23.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

Man, everyone is doing this Infinite Summer thing. Here is a still from this week’s episode of Weeds. “I’ll do that delivery for mom after I finish my chapter.I’m sure this Erdedy guy won’t mind waiting ten minutes.” (Thanks to Ed for sending us the screenshot.) Matt of Wood-Tang is on page 700 of the […]
Summaries
Infinite Summary – Week 9
08.22.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

Milestone Reached: 664 (67%) Sections Read: Page 575:: Randy Lenz and Bruce Green continue strolling around Boston. We learn that Green’s mother died of fright after opening a novelty snake-in-a-fake-can-of-nuts gift that young Bruce had given her at his father’s urging, and that Green’s father went insane (and was executed for sending out deadly exploding […]
Guests
John Green: Why I’m Behind
08.21.09 | Permalink | 22 Comments

John Green is the Michael L. Printz Award-winning author of Paper Towns, Looking for Alaska, and An Abundance of Katherines. He is also the co-creator (with his brother, Hank) of the popular vlogbrothers channel on youtube, which spawned the nerdfighter community, a tight-knit group of a hundred thousand nerds who use the internet to celebrate […]
Avery Edison
Everybody Hurts (Except Mario Incandenza)
08.20.09 | Permalink | 52 Comments

I am coming to believe that there is not one normal character in this book.77 We see characters with physical deformities (the wheelchair assassins, Mario); mental problems (Himself, Kate Gompert, others); substance addictions (the Ennet house gang, a vast number of students at E.T.A); sociopathic tendencies (Lenz, Lenz, Lenz); obsessive compulsions (Avril Incandenza, Lateral Alice […]
Kevin Guilfoile
I’ve Seen the Future, Brother, It Is Murder
08.19.09 | Permalink | 66 Comments

In the underrated Mike Judge film Idiocracy, Luke Wilson is unfrozen centuries in the future where people have become so stupid that a two-hour video of a man’s naked, farting ass wins four Oscars, and Wilson has to run around desperately trying to convince everyone on the planet that humans will go extinct unless they […]
Eden M. Kennedy
Thanks, but I Don’t Particularly Like to Hug
08.18.09 | Permalink | 13 Comments

I’m a little behind in my reading, I’m smack in the middle of the whole Lenz thing and it’s kind of making me sick, so I’m going to backtrack a little. Last week I accused Infinite Jest of having kind of a Kubrickian sterility about it at times, but as I continue reading and the […]
Matthew Baldwin
The Peril of A.P.
08.17.09 | Permalink | 19 Comments

It’s always strange to hear a term you thought you “owned” in a complete different context. Case in point: as a board gamer, I have been using the phrase “analysis paralysis” for years, completely unaware that the term was affiliated (and perhaps originated) with A.A. Most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they […]