The worst, most annoying David Foster Wallace fan you know watched The End of the Tour and thought…
The worst, most annoying David Foster Wallace fan you know watched The End of the Tour and thought it was really good. I fuckin love that guy
I’m here for a good time not a long time but somehow suspect I won’t really get to experience either
The worst, most annoying David Foster Wallace fan you know watched The End of the Tour and thought it was really good. I fuckin love that guy
Definition of beast mode is ending your short story about failures and complications of communication with “‘not another word’”. No one did it like him. Where are my Oblivion-heads?
infinitejesticulating : I am in here. Year of Glad, Page 3
There’s a very real possibility that Thomas Pynchon is dead, and has been for years, and he just had some books that he was sitting on that they’re slowly working through. I mean, how would we know otherwise? Public appearances?
hummingbird-hooligan : urbancatfitters : slytherin-starkid-of-tardis : urbancatfitters : everyone is embarrassed of their fourteen year old self trust me if you’re fourteen right now you will regret whatever it is that you are doing at this moment What, being a SuperWhoLockian, Tumblrian, and just being generally pretty good? I don’t think so. screenshot this and look at it in 3 years Wow holy…
Writing again. Ts so crazy. Wait TS = this shit = T.S. Eliot. This shit Eliot bro
Joseph Campbell understood that there was nothing better than Guys Going Somewhere. The Odyssey, late night snack runs, Lord of the Rings, road trips, The Grapes of Wrath, and so on: what could be better than this?
anthraxofeffervescence : The core conceit of Lord of the Rings is pretty funny. You are a twenty three year old in a suburb of Maine. The little bracelet in your grandpa’s attic has an inscription on it that is the password to the world’s entire nuclear arsenal. It is up to you to walk to the only hydraulic press in the world, located in Arizona, before the FBI finds the bracelet, kills you, and…
The core conceit of Lord of the Rings is pretty funny. You are a twenty three year old in a suburb of Maine. The little bracelet in your grandpa’s attic has an inscription on it that is the password to the world’s entire nuclear arsenal. It is up to you to walk to the only hydraulic press in the world, located in Arizona, before the FBI finds the bracelet, kills you, and enslaves the suburb of…
English literature - Wikipedia Holy fuck. Who knew about this
perimodern : YEAR OF GLAD we’re doing drug tests on perimodern. How the hell is this so good?
A web. A web. A web. A web. A web. A web. Chat GPT Donald trump Elon Musk ICE lack of reading male loneliness epidemic social media. Every life is many days one after another. The world is very old. I cannot overstress the oldness of the world. Alan and here I grab your shoulders we are so fucked. Birth and life and death. Spikes are protruding out of my back and into other people and they kill…
Abbey Road is not an album about the rise and fall of the Beatles or fame or John and Paul or whatever. It’s an album about how Ringo Starr is the greatest drummer of all time
Sean Evans: In your essay “David Lynch Keeps His Head,” you define “Lynchian” as the coexistence of the grotesque and the mundane. I’m curious about how you think about his work in connection to the mundanity of cell phones revealing the grotesque around us? David Foster Wallace, seconds after eating a chicken wing covered in a hot sauce called CHERNOBYL MEGADEATH,…
Something about sad lesbians and determined latinos, man… Spoilers for Pluribus, but you should seriously watch the show. I said it before and I’m saying it again. Fuck you pirate it somewhere -All the people who said that this show is moving slowly have never felt lonely a day in their lives. This is not a show about an alien hive mind, this is a show about the soul-shattering weight…
(Who up plurring they one bussy) Spoilers for Pluribus but you should really just watch the show -Carol Sturka is such a fucking tragic character and one of the greatest depictions of loneliness I’ve ever seen on camera. You’re surrounded by endless amounts of people who nominally want nothing more than to make you feel better, but not a single one can actually connect with or…
Reading Tom King’s Human Target… he is are soooo babygirl and he loves booster soooooo much
ruthlessfailure : radiohead come back and write about ai takeover please. we need more losers in 2025 RADIOHEAD!!!!! MAKE ANOTHER ALBUM AFTER THIS TOUR AND MY LIFE IS YOURS
Me after resurrecting David Foster Wallace: So, like, on TikTok — a new social media app specifically made for short-form content, videos specifically under sixty seconds (most phones have cameras now, by the way) — people consume content that they themselves will call “brainrot” and “slop”- DFW: He’s the fucking PRESIDENT? Me: -and they know it’s stupid and…
Had a debilitating realization during a conversation with Jenna the day after my birthday