On What Books Make You Cringe To Remember?
Look Homeward Angel.
1.5 times through.
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On 46 Things to Read and See for David Foster Wallace's 50th Birthday
Keats!
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On 'Time' Magazine Now 23 Cents an Issue
Veranda! How about Fire Escape? You know - for people who have to manage pet containers, barbecues, and dead plants in a small space.
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On The Scourge Of Pour-Over Coffee
@bocadelperro Blue Bottle isn't even local in SF! At least some people thought not. There were suggestions that Ritual considers Dolores Park to be its lawn and Blue Bottle is invited to keep its cart off it!
(Not that I believed them.)
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On Park Pretty
What I remember most about Yosemite is the bus system. And bears foraging in the trash at night.
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On "Marianne Moore Is Reluctant To Say…."
"Consulation" is actually just fine Anglo-Latin.
She's toying with us.
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On Thank You Jesus For America
@armagnacforbreakfast I don't want to think about what would have failed to happen had not Dionysus been born.(1)(2)
(1)From Zeus' leg, no less.
(2)Did you know that Euripides' Bacchae was adapted in Byzantine times into a play about the Passion of Christ? Which means that all this speculation is less crazy than it seems. Or maybe more crazy.
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On Remember the Kingsbridge Armory!
@Lockheed Ventura Oh I don't know. I believe the old Armory in San Francisco is a porn studio now.
These armories are likely the closest thing to Sade's castle you can get in America.
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On A Scenic Tour Of Toxic Sites Across America
Pleasure and Humanity Sts. appear to be parallel, as do Benefit, Abundance and Industry.
The more I look at that map, the more delightful it is.
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On The Past Actually Is Past
Tell me all about it.