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OMG the john goodman as ignatius has been a dream forever! oh man. oh man. as a new orleanian, i love love love love love this book. its a bit weird and slow at first, i will give you that, but it builds up to such absurd heights and is such pitch perfect description of what that city can be like! every person i’ve tried force the book on who hasn’t been from or lived in new orleans didn’t seem to like it as much as people from there, so maybe there is an issue of it being too local or self referential. also, fun fact: i used to live like two blocks from the house where ignatius supposedly lived!
i actually don’t see zach galifinakis as a great actor for this role either, though not because of his size. his delivery style doesn’t suit the overly bombastic and self aggrandizing ignatius, but hopefully he will play it as over the top as it would need to be.
i am ashamed to admit that ive never read catch-22. we had a copy of it at my house in college, but it was missing random pages and i didn’t figure that out for a really long time and was reaaaalllyy confused at how unreadable it seemed. so. i cannot counter point on that. but the turtle! it’s a metaphor! for the workers’ struggle against capitalism! and the terrible monotony of the great depression and how it rendered individuals like the joads further into mere beasts of labor pushed across the plains in search of the promise land that does not exist!!!!!! and the prose is really so very lovely, y’all. sincerely, my 11th grade AP literature teacher.
i mean when you read them when you are older, the frame shifts to the money. gah.
but the grapes of wrath is THE BEST NOVEL OF ALL TIME.
i read this interview with margaret atwood the other day about her documentary film on debt and revenge, and she had this really good insight about books like the great gatsby- how when you read them when you’re young, the frame of reference tends towards the romance side of the story and plot because that is what is scandalous and interesting to you at the time, and when you read them when you are younger, it shifts to the insidious role of money in the story. which yeah, when i first read it, i don’t think i really understood what all the fuss and scandal was about.
(pssssst badideajeans: im pretty sure i irrationally hated pete campbell for like, ever, because of my total loathing for connor.)
surprise- a plath poem about death and depression!
passage to power is the fourth book! path to power is the first book, which i’m sure everyone HAS read, because it is canon, right?
i think i just won / lost the nerd thread.
hulu made 420 million in ad revenue last year! that is a lot of cheddar. buying hulu a few years ago was a great move. i do wonder if privatizing it a bit won’t cause the number of viewers to drop, but that’s not really the point anyway- number of viewers only matter in the sense that they can then use those viewer stats to sell ads at a higher price point.
why is that dog’s tongue so long???
!!!!!!!!!!!! this is the most exciting thing i’ve heard in WEEKS. but. still no waffle houses, huh.
YOU ARE WRONG, R2D2.
krispy kremes are the best.
DEFENSE RESTS.
Y’ALL. are there krispy kremes in the north??? also why would you name your badass rapper personae after doughnuts?
next track on this mix: Jeffrey Dahmer’s cover of “Heart of Gold”
somehow i’m only at 39, but i think i make up for my lack of one liners with the ridiculous amounts of infinite jest length rants. i really do like to hector. boooooo, me.
i just sat through a masterpiece theater serialized drama starring eddie redmayne because i like his freckles. it was not particularly good. hick looks better.
i mean, this doesn’t reaaaaally fall into the category of making southern states look like assholes. this comes from south carolina. i think the fact that the state is still debating whether or not to fly the confederate flag over part of the statehouse falls under “making the south look like assholes”. see also: continuously electing jim demint.
girls, why are you walking around barefoot on the sidewalk?? that is how you get hookworm!
i love love love the opening credits for homicide: life on the street: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeZLSomwuLw
a couple of years ago a street half collapsed somewhere in the suburbs of new orleans, sucking in a dump truck which crushed one of the workers under it. but the ground was so soft that he just got smooshed into the earth and the truck only broke his legs. so. that can be like, fear 10-a.
oh man oh man. i don’t think my fragile ego can handle seeing likes and dislikes. or reading pages and pages of my own internet tripe. 
well, fuck. dreams dashed.
ahh i watched it and loved it! is it bad that while watching it i was like, jealous of everyone’s jobs? that is horrible. basically i just want to strut around in a power suit and say really foul things in fancy historical buildings, i guess.
don’s refusal to treat megan like she actually is an adult is creepy, because it keeps seeming like he really wants a woman that he can completely control- one who doesn’t have her own wants or needs or preferences. perhaps that’s why he got rid of betty- she was good at being that type of wife for a good long while, but eventually the strain of not being a person ruined her. and now it seems like don is just searching out another relationship where he can be this all powerful presence. it’s really getting sad and dark.
is this where we congratulate all the monsters who just got degrees?? CONGRATULATIONS! i just got my master’s! i think. i skipped my commencement, but my thesis got approved, so hopefully i’m in the clear and my degree shows up at one of the five houses i’ve lived at in the past two years. i forgot where i told them to mail it. whooooops! i am obviously super smart!