I loathe Jesse Eisenberg and don't have much more affection for Segal so the writing on this movie will have to be fantastic for me to want to take a look.

I'm somewhere between jimmy and curious in my awareness of the subject matter. In regards to B and B: Dan will see this movie. If it plays anything like it is promoted in the clip, it is a movie he needs to see.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

For all yous fanbois out there, Fresh Air is doing a DFW retrospective starting now.

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Soccer 1,2,3
Spanish Honor Society 1,2,3,4
Forensics 1,2,3,4

"Smiles with Nostrils"

"...no Hmong, go find some blacks"

Earlier this month, I began my third attempt to read Infinite Jest. My first foray was right after I purchased the tome around 2007ish and I gave up after about ten pages. A few years later I managed to get close to page 50. This time, the proverbial charmed third time, I mean to read every printed word between the cover and I am over 200 pages deep. And I have read every endnote, including James O. Incandenza's entire filmography. This edition contains a poignant forward penned by perpetual navel-gazer Dave Eggers, which I also read and then wanted to tear into pieces. Aren't you happy for me? DFW pisses me off with his paragraphs that go on for ten pages but otherwise it's not a bad read. It's not as accessible as his essays but after I pushed through the initial wall I am finding the book to be enjoyable. Also, the phrase "pernicious myths" exists in the text. Could Bernsie have actually read this door stop?

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Back off, Warchild. Seriously.

Bernstein reads DFW and DFW listened to B&B. Dan has used "I wish you way more than luck" from the end of the KDdidit commencement countless times.

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Devils Rejects was great. The rest was meh.

I really wanted to see his broad street bullies movie but the nhl wouldn't let it happen. I also really wanted to see the miniseries Rob and Bret Easton Ellis were going to do about LA with the Manson backdrop.


Back on subject. I think I need to read Infinite Jest with a book club.

Harper's has re-posted the very first essay he ever wrote for them. Where were you in December 1991?

http://harpers.org/archive/1991/12/tenn ... tornadoes/

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Soccer 1,2,3
Spanish Honor Society 1,2,3,4
Forensics 1,2,3,4

"Smiles with Nostrils"

"...no Hmong, go find some blacks"

I am going to start Infinite Jest shortly. Well within the next month anyone interested in book clubbing this?

I'm at about page 630 now. Haven't skipped a word. I want to finish this bitch by October 1. I fell behind over Labor Day weekend when I went out of town and left the tome at home. Plus, I'm also reading the Paterno biography on my Kindle, which I couldn't pass up for $1.99 on Amazon. I like to read something heavy and something that's a little more like mental pablum at the same time.

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Back off, Warchild. Seriously.

I might get to Infinite Jest. Doing a lot of the essays now

Finished it early this morning right after midnight. Still kind of decompressing and evaluating the lack of resolution and what my opinion on it is.

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Back off, Warchild. Seriously.