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- Saying “Ugh.Barf!” about everything that annoys me in any way.
- The Amanda Palmer/$1.2 million on Kickstarter and yet mysteriously unable to pay musicians kerfuffle.
- The first two ‘issues’ of Literary Tiger Beat featuring dreamy fictional teens both male & female.
- The relationship between Mary Karr & David Foster Wallace which has a whiff of bullshit about, at least as it’s described in Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story. Something’s not adding up and I can’t quite figure out what it si yet. It might have to do with how DFW allegedly “punched out a car window” because of some drama in their relationship, and yet there was nothing about the horrible hand injuries he would incure if such an event actually happened.
- Soup.
- One-hit wonders of the mid-90s. Specifically, James’ “Laid” and “Standing Inside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand” by someone whose name I cannot remember
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“Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand” was by Primitive Radio Gods.
Attached is something you may find interesting. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/god-mary-karr-and-ronald-reagan-d-t-max-on-david-foster-wallace/
I read that yesterday at the height of my obsession. There’s still something fishy about the romance. I can’t quite put my finger on it.
Came for the PW download, stayed for the quality writing. Good stuff, keep up the good work.
Thank you so much. I never tire of hearing “quality writing” when it comes to words that I wrote.
I love laid. Whenever it pops up in my shuffle, it makes me smile. I don’t get too much about Mary Karr (or Zadie Smith – her ad just ran across the link to the article on DT Max, which reminded me). I did the obsessive read on Amanda Palmer yesterday too.
I just want to give you a ‘hell yeah’ with Zadie Smith. I was so unimpressed with White Teeth that I have dismissed her ever since. I’ve only read Karr’s Liar’s Club, and don’t remember a thing about it.
Thank for the Paul song. Shared it via iink on my Facebook. Cheers!
Timo in Sweden.
You must pick up Rodney Crowell’s “Kin.” He co-wrote all the songs with Mary Karr, who is an absolute hoot, by the way.