“…And when he came back to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out…”
Page 981, Infinite Jest.
Rest in Peace, David Foster Wallace.
Category Archives: General
DFW R.I.P.
14-Sep-08Talk About the Weathermen
11-Sep-08I needed a comedy bump today, so I went to the Hodgman piece from the Daily Show from a while back. Some guy at the local convenience store wearing a ‘Never Forget’ t-shirt sent my morning the wrong way.
Like I am ever going to forget.
So I needed some cheap laughs. The way John Hodgman [...]
Best NYT Article on Cycling, maybe ever.
07-Sep-08NYT is running an article on the single speed world championships. What ever you do, don’t miss the slideshow.
Choice quote:
“Not drinking is the S.S.W.C. version of doping,” Phelan wrote on her blog after the Napa race, adding that it was a “cowardly, unfair physical advantage which I freely deploy.”
(Way to make me dig for [...]
Rod Stewart? Really?
05-Sep-08Yes. Rod Stewart and the Faces. I’m going thru a phase w them now, thanks to my man, Brenden Newnam. You see, he’s got this new podcast called ‘The Dinner Party Download‘, and the first episode they dropped the first track off of Ooh La La. I went and bought the [...]
I have the IMified
02-Sep-08Trying out IMified today for fun. Posting over IM. Tinkering with making bots, etc. I should be out walking around as I am on vacation, but I think I’ve had enough ocean, pool, sand sun etc for a while. (Read: Until next summer).
Chloe
29-Aug-08We went to Chloe for dinner tonight, one of Philly’s awesome BYOBs.
I had mozzarella salad with heirloom tomatos, and the tuna in banana ginger soy broth.
yum.
S’s birthday was last week, mine is creeping up in a few days. Hooray for getting old. Hooray for love after the time of racing season.
Ubiquity
27-Aug-08Installed Ubiquity today. Its actually pretty sweet to be able to call up, in browser, without opening a new window, or a new tab, any reference info you might need. If only I could remember to use Firefox all the time.
Australia, What Fresh Hell is This?
27-Aug-08
Revisted The Proposition on TIVO recently. Its an understatement to call this a brutal and harsh film. But it is mesmerizing.
The original score was done by Nick Cave(also wrote the screenplay) and Warren Ellis(of the Dirty Three). It perfectly sets the tone of the film.
The director, John Hillcoat, is currently adapting Cormac [...]
Big Rock/Very Small Package
27-Aug-08Rid of Me. P.J. Harvey
Nockamixon Century Part III
25-Aug-08This year marks the third year in a row I’ve done the Nockamixon Century. I wrote about 2006 and I have Garmin data from 2007. I’ve said of those two days that they were the single most difficult days of riding in those years. This year I didn’t feel that bad, the whole way through.
Probably for [...]