cyoa.
Everytime I see CYOA as an acronym, I think of teaching i312. Man, I miss that.
Archive for the 'books' Category
I started Infinite Jest last night after finally finishing the other book I was reading. I’m only on page 27, but I have to admit that any book with multiple mentions of WhataBurger in the opening pages is taking the expressway to my heart. I still stand a chance of getting to page 62 this evening which will put me right on track.
Don’t know how I had missed George Saunders’s website, which pointed me this morning to his American Psyche series for the Guardian, which I had somehow also missed. I was pointed to all of this by a blog post about how his CivilWarLand in Bad Decline had been optioned by Ben Stiller, which first sent me sinking, but on reading further, I saw the author of that post asks the reader to consider what Stiller had done with Tropic Thunder (in a good way). Kelly liked that movie so I suppose I’ll withhold judgment– actually, I’m sure a film version of anything Saunders has written will be super, since his dialogue is always cracking me up. You know, I was re-reading My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable yesterday, as a stalling tactic, and I was reminded that there is something similar about George Saunders and David Rees. Looks like I’m not the only one who has made the connection.
He (George Saunders) had a good recent story in the New Yorker as well.I should mention that it is now my job to know this type of thing. Hat tip to Google Alerts for keeping me informed.
Great random archive at public collectors. Lots of art, design, and punk rock stuff. Many fully scanned works, like the sweet Dome Book below, as well as some more disembodied art projects.
Documentation of Complete Publications in PDF form.
via ManyStuff.org
…also wrote and conceptualized the 15 minute film surrounding Michael Jackson’s “Bad” video.
via Richard Price (writer) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The wonderful bookish blog A Journey Round My Skull has a post this week highlighting the fact that Charles Seliger: Redefining Abstract Expressionism is available (at least partially) on Google Books.
I was shocked to see Seliger’s 1944 work Organic Form in my RSS reader, as it’s a piece I’m well familiar with– it was the basis for my kind of project from 2004.
I need a big long project like this one again– I’m already getting excited about the possibilities for all the new basement space we’ll get in our new house (coming Saturday!).
Anyway, in honor of being reminded of this guy, here’s the final phase of my project, a short video, uploaded to youtube and magnificently degraded. Better versions here.
In keeping with last year’s resolution to begin enjoying olives (which I accomplished!), this year, I’m planning to learn which olives I like, rather than just blindly trying them all. Also, Kelly and I have started that hundred pushups challenge, since we are both upper-body weaklings.
My three other resolutions: prune my RSS feeds down to about 200, collect everyone’s correct contact information, and keep track of all the books I read and movies I watch. As for the last one, here’s the list so far:
The Zenith Angle by Bruce Sterling.
If… (Lindsay Anderson, 1968)
The Luzhin Defence (Marlene Gorris, 2000)
Bobby (Emilio Estevez) Sucked!
Generation Kill (the 2008 Simon/Burns HBO Series)