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Archive for July, 2009

July 14, 2009

Finally finished David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest.” A couple things: Liked the bits about tennis. Would have to read multiple times to keep all the drugs straight. Dude could write. Reaction to footnotes went: Huh.Oh, boy.Not again.hahahaReally?I need to read #24 again.Don’t make me read #304 again!Whoa, last page of footnotes. Did NOT end how [...]

July 3, 2009

In downtown Corvallis, there is a popular fountain where maybe 64 (or 36?) jets of water arranged in a square shoot straight up out of the concrete at intervals. On warm afternoons there are always a million happy kids, a fence of watchful, mostly-dry parents, and a few WHARRGARBL dogs. The river is right there, [...]