Dan Bernstein @dan_bernstein · 1h 1 hour ago

I have to give Pynchon credit. I thought the first 2/3 of "Inherent Vice" were breezy, lightweight claptrap, but he apparently set me up.

Dan Bernstein @dan_bernstein · 1h 1 hour ago

I have to give Pynchon credit.

Dan Bernstein @dan_bernstein · 1h 1 hour ago

I have to give Pynchon credit. I thought the first 2/3 of "Inherent Vice" were breezy, lightweight claptrap, but he apparently set me up.

@dan_bernstein

Reading Pynchon makes me ache for DFW.

Chris Rongey ‏@ChrisRongey 7m7 minutes ago

@dan_bernstein DFW taught at @IllinoisStateU while I was there. 'Infinite Jest' was published while I was a freshman.

@dan_bernstein 5m5 minutes ago

@ChrisRongey He and I were written-letter buds. He loved the show.
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Maybe Dan should think about his departed "written-letter bud" and what he'd think of how the show has become a sneering celebration of authority and a den of vacuous lawyered-up gossip.

Maybe Dan should think about his departed "written-letter bud" and what he'd think of how the show has become a sneering celebration of authority and a den of vacuous lawyered-up gossip.

Maybe Dan should think about his departed "written-letter bud" and what he'd think of how the show has become a sneering celebration of authority and a den of vacuous lawyered-up gossip.

btw i remember some years ago that bernstein was talking about "tortured genius" something like "so smart it hurts to be alive" or something.... was he talking about DFW there?

Yeah, I think so. I remember a time when he was talking about the realities of depression by way of David Foster Wallace's suicide and how mere existence had become too painful for DFW. Goff said something ignorant like how brothers don't commit suicide because white people are trying hard enough to kill them. The argument didn't go anywhere fruitful from there, as anyone who's broached the issue with IMU can attest.

I had no idea Dan was a DFW correspondent, or even a fan, when I joined the board. I was going to start a thread about how DFW dropped a reference to listening to Bears postmortems on the Score in his 9/11 essay, but I thought he was talking about Doug and OB. I remember when the Mitchell Report came out back in '07, Bud Selig made some remark about how he was intending to read the whole thing but hadn't gotten around to finishing it yet. Dan said something like "Yeah, Bud said the same thing about Infinite Jest, too" and it was a real holy-shit moment for me.

Cancel all other discussion. Cancel all guests. There is only one topic for today(and likely the next 2 years).

http://deadspin.com/report-duke-coaches-administrators-ignored-sexual-ass-1688875007

Cancel all other discussion. Cancel all guests. There is only one topic for today(and likely the next 2 years).

http://deadspin.com/report-duke-coaches-administrators-ignored-sexual-ass-1688875007

I liked Bronson Pynchot before he went on steroids

I liked him while he was still in Mypos.

“He was so mad at me I thought I had traded LaMarcus Aldridge for Tyrus Thomas and not him.”

Van Gundy delivering haymakers!!

Yeah, that's good stuff.

Van Gundy is great. I watch way more NBA now because of him

He's ok, but he can get way too preachy sometimes from his seat. But, the ESPN/ABC broadcast has improved since they brought back Mark Jackson to the 3rd chair.

It's funny when Van Gundy does a college game. He basically spends the whole game saying "They should do this just like the NBA". I don't even know why he is there.

Where does he do college games?

I didnt think Barkely and Kenny Smith on the tournament was good either