At 10:10 PM 8/22/2009, shag carpet bomb wrote:
>i'll be vacating in a couple weeks! People, I'm going on my first real
>live vacation! Paid even! I had my very first paid vacation in my whole
>life, last year, and visited family. This time, I'm going to lounge around
>on the seashore and visit lighthouses and museums and stuph. Whee! I'm
>renting a house with a deck, with salt water lapping the stilts upon which
>it is built. I intend to do nozzink! absotively posolutely nozzink! [1]
>
>except read. and look at lighthouses. and, omigod, i can go to restaurants
>and blow money on meals even. can you fuckin' believe it? i can't!
>
>so, i need some suggestions. tell me what to read! fiction-wise! or
>anything else -- except badiou. i can't fathom why i'd want to read the
>egomaniacal fusspot on vacation!
>
>i totally loved alice munro, who Mike Ballard introduced me to. I saw
>Infinite Jest in the store tonight and wondered if I should read it. I
>know Joe B will think so. I remember when it came out, visiting a
>bookstore in Toronto, pondering whether, as a gradstud, I had time to read
>that sucker... I decided I didn't, and didn't want to blow money on it.
>
>anyway, sends suggestions my way. anything will do. torrid dirty novels
>would be good. whatever!
>
>
>[1](i was so going to rent this one,
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyoCPYrTRsc. i took one gander at the
>video, heard the waves crashing and the birds, and boy, I was right there.
>but then I got busy and stupidly forgot to reserve it. it is now taken!
>ouch! oh well, i will rent it for my may vacation then! wait! i want to go
>to europe!)
>
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