John Lowery (aka John 5), former Marilyn Manson guitarist, covers Guns N’ Roses’ “Welcome to the Jungle”: mp3
Archive for September, 2008
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NASCAR Cancels Remainder Of Season Following David Foster Wallace’s Death
“I first read Infinite Jest in 1998 when my gas-can man gave me a copy when I was a rookie in the Craftsman Truck Series, and I was immediately struck dumb by the combination of effortlessness and earnestness of his prose.”
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Obama Deletes Another Unread MoveOn.org E-Mail
“I know this election is important and everything,” Obama added. “But these people seriously need to relax.”
- McSweeney’s Rejects Mike Mussina’s Seventh Consecutive Submission
Mussina plans to send his latest rejected McSweeney’s submission to the New Yorker’s “Shouts & Murmurs” section, which has published three of Mussina’s pieces in the past two months.
- ‘Carpe Diem,’ Says Man Who Spent Previous Day Masturbating In Darkened Room
- McCain’s Energy Plan Emphasizes Elbow Grease, Sleeve-Rolling-Up
An astonishingly wonderful writer, lost too soon:
A versatile writer of seemingly bottomless energy, Mr. Wallace was a maximalist, exhibiting in his work a huge, even manic curiosity — about the physical world, about the much larger universe of human feelings and about the complexity of living in America at the end of the 20th century. …
“David Foster Wallace can do practically anything if he puts his mind to it,” Michiko Kakutani, chief book critic of The New York Times, who was not a consistent praiser of Mr. Wallace’s work, wrote in 2006. “He can do sad, funny, silly, heartbreaking and absurd with equal ease; he can even do them all at once.”
(Bruce Sterling remarks of his suicide, “This is a kind of occupational hazard for guys like him.”)
McSweeney’s is collecting remembrances, and obits from many publications are linked at Howling Fantods.
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