On A Supposedly True Thing Jonathan Franzen Said About David Foster Wallace
@barnhouse : damn, there goes my line about Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas not being a documentary.
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On 'The Joy Of Sex': The Original Hairy, Musky Edition
@Halloween Jack I should follow up this comment, after reading the New Yorker article, that I'm talking about the illustrations only; the text is the same sort of bullshit that David Reuben spouted in this book.
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On 'The Joy Of Sex': The Original Hairy, Musky Edition
The thing about blowing air into the vagina is more about doing it sort of forcefully, hard enough to get air past the cervix and into the uterus where it might be absorbed into the bloodstream rather than being queefed back out. Highly unlikely.
Also, the thing that always impressed me about the original JoS was the ordinariness of the models; later editions have more "porny" illustrations that are still good, but less like real, average people doing it, which I think was part of the whole point of the original.
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On Let's Talk 'I'm With The Band': Crocheted Bikinis, Jergens And Waking Up On Jim Morrison's Rug
Her book Rock Bottom, which has a lot of music industry gossip, is pretty good, if you can get past the part where a groupie takes a dump in Chuck Berry's mouth.
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On From the Mail: Michael Des Barres on Pamela Des Barres
It's hard out there for a marquis.
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On 'Riders': Which Is Worse, Lousy In Bed Or Can't Ride?
I may have to take part in NaNoWriMo this year, just so that I can write a trashy book with a character named Ginger Bush.
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On A Supposedly True Thing Jonathan Franzen Said About David Foster Wallace
In a faint echo of the (frequently too academic) debate about the distinction between fiction and nonfiction, the question of whether or not either of these statements are empirically true, as descriptions of Wallace, strikes me as beside the point.
I think that they're very much the point. Franzen seems very much to still be trying to argue with DFW about this, and trying to convince others that DFW's non-response in the matter constitutes a forfeit.