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I just finished this, and have predictably mixed thoughts about it. On the one hand, the prose is astonishing at times, and DFW's erudition is impressive (and even more impressively, used to the benefit of the novel, rather than as a distraction I felt), but at the same time, I was left with a...

I subscribe to the new yorker - when I started my subscription about 2 years ago, it was insanely cheap, at about 70 quid a year for (I think) 45+ issues, delivered.

I work for one of the search engines, and write novels which will probably never find a publisher in the evenings.

These 'finest'/'finer' things are all a little bit Borgesian, but I couldn't resist. My personal favorite is from Richard Ford's 'Independence Day': "And I am in the crowd just as the drums are passing—always the last in line—their boom-boom-booming in my ears and all around. I see the sun...

4.5 to 5 during the week, but it's fucking awful. However, it is more or less the only way to have a job and write/do anything productive for myself.

I believe toxins leave the body in urine as a result of well-understood processes involving the kidneys, liver and gut, rather than being 'squeezed out' of the muscles...

According to that article, sweating is primarily the expulsion of water and salt for the purposes of thermoregulation... so I don't know, where does it go when that happens?

I'm almost afraid to ask, but where exactly do all the toxins/waste go when they are squeezed/pushed out of your muscles?

A friend of mine has just started a new weekly world politics magazine called eyebrow which is certainly worth taking a look at, and not just because I'm in it...

I have a lot of affection for the school walk through scene from Donnie Darko, set to 'Head Over Heels'

After living in Wood Green for 2.5 years, I've decided I've punished myself enough and want to move somewhere nice. I was thinking the area around Hammersmith/Brook Green/Shepherds Bush... anyone live there/lived there and have any comments? It's convenient for getting to Victoria where I work...

I was recently at a conference where one of the speakers commented that he'd recently done an experiment comparing a 2007 Vista PC and a 1985 Apple (would that be the II?) and found that in terms of things like disc access, file opening etc the 1985 machine was actually faster. Now how the fuck...

So without having seen a minute of it, I was gonna ask my girlfriend to get me the first two seasons of The Wire on DVD for my birthday. I'm assuming from this thread that no one is about to try and convince me that this would be a bad decision?

Would anyone else opt for Harriet Wheeler?

The first three seasons are absolutely peerless - the final episode of season 2 being particularly beautiful and excoriating at the same time. I really hate Brenda as a character though...

Sounds like hag-riding to me...

I'm entered in the current gather.com amazonshorts competition. http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976781184 If you have a moment and sufficient inclination, please have a read and vote. Unfortunately to register a vote you have to complete a quick registration, so no hard...

Pissy, moi?

Because none of them had confidence in the integrity of the art forms they inhabited and sought to inherit significance by aping the conventions of other mediums? I didn't mean to come across as pissy, it's just that a conspiracy that takes out 3 people and leads to a laughably grand guignol...

Hmm my point, which might not have been clear, wasn't to berate it for not having the psychological realism of a novel, but rather to question why it would need it in the first place? As for the plot being labyrinthine, it didn't strike me as being particularly more devious or delicate than the...