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smarmy liberals love to use exclamation marks when they're being disingenuous online, ie "i know everyone wants free healthcare -- i do too! but...(etc etc)". awful affect.

drinking a topo chico right now.

i don't like the P&V stuff i've sampled at all, it all sounds really clunky to me. one of the essays criticizing them talks about how they change the opening of notes from underground from: to which might be more technically accurate in some sense but if you don't get that "spiteful" is a...

there's an elliot weinberger essay where he says something to the effect of: the untranslatability of writing is like the nature of consciousness or the meaning of life, something you think about every once in a while and then get on with things.

i never get around to these russian novels bc im a real neurotic about translations. i'll look online for ages reading contradictory opinions on them and reading all the amazon previews. it's a really annoying habit but i can't just pick one. this one is good though.

i started the old public domain constance garnett translation and then dropped it and got the oliver ready translation from 2014 and i'm really glad i did. it's much less stilted and really vivid, feels like a sweaty nightmare. i have no idea if it's transmitting the true spirit of reading...

i'm reading crime and punishment. i thought it would be all stodgy and moralistic but it's really intense and exciting. funny too.

i loved the klf book but a lot of his recent stuff has a fixation on how gen z will save us, which i can't say i cosign. also writers shouldn't link to amazon. if they do they should put an "only if you absolutely have to" disclaimer.

if i could finance anything in hollywood it would be a 6 season huge budget hbo show of all the LA->Underworld USA books.

i read american tabloid on the nyc subway and had to keep turning it this way and that to avoid prying eyes. one day some wild-eyed guy came up to me and went on and on about how much he loved pete bondurant. very fitting experience.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/can-a-video-game-express-modernist-values/ most writing on video games is laughably bad but this was interesting i thought.

i like big open world historical/fantasy games bc they do a good job of immersing you in a world and getting you to experience these little quotidian moments of cresting a ridge on horseback at sunset or walking through a market. it helps me conceptualize history in a way that i feel like has a...

yeah it's the game show spinoff of the original forged in fire

the hunger isn't a bad movie on its own merits but the opening scene promises a movie of beautiful vampire lovers bowie and deneuve swooning around in goth clubs biting unsuspecting patrons and then the rest of the movie is set inside a house and bowie is decaying the whole time.

there's this history channel reality show called forged in fire: knife or death where they do a knife obstacle course which basically consists of chopping things in one try without your knife breaking. sadly its better in concept than in execution since most of them just fail at the same point...

ah man, three versions of judas ofc!! basically every story in it is a banger.

this is always my problem w/ short story collections is i only want to read one story at a time and then it takes me forever to get through one and i abandon it halfway through. labyrinths is amazing that way though, reading 5 pages feels like 50 (in a good way). what are your favorites so far...

this is in the USA, i think it might have to do w/ this supreme court case. still weird tho.

picked this up at the goodwill today :cool:

and yet you insist on sending your actors over to do cornball hank impressions!!