josh blog

Ordinary language is all right.

One could divide humanity into two classes:
those who master a metaphor, and those who hold by a formula.
Those with a bent for both are too few, they do not comprise a class.

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8 Jul '09 02:10:12 AM

Words cannot describe the joy with which one hears Bob Dylan pronounce the phrase, 'go on to "You Tube"''.

8 Jul '09 01:59:13 AM

Infinite Jest made me a contemporary of Wallace when I read it in the first paperback edition—97? 98?—in college and felt like I was taking part in something that was happening. Who is to say it's not still happening?

6 Jul '09 06:17:56 AM

Somehow, summer emboldens; everyone sees the public as more public.

1 Jul '09 05:23:03 AM

'flexibility, multiplicity, confusion wanting to reflect the turmoil of reality'

30 Jun '09 04:58:21 PM

Often, with the non-artsy, I am the one who shrinks away from more comprehensive understanding: I do not want to risk a disappointment great enough to make me give up on any engagement at all.

30 Jun '09 04:54:23 PM

'all existed somewhere on the same cultural plane'

26 Jun '09 12:30:42 PM

As a kid, when I first learned how to tape-record songs off the radio, they released so many singles from Bad that I thought I could record the whole album. I didn't understand why the radio station wouldn't let me hear that much of any other records.

Tracer on MJ the dancer.

[Three notes on joy]

24 Jun '09 05:11:19 PM

'Incurious'— a cardinal sin.

23 Jun '09 02:29:24 AM

'She sang pop music.'