Let's open up a restaurant in Bozeman (0.00 / 0)

Ok. I tried to look that up on Google but the only place I ever stopped in Bozemean for food was a Pizza Hut. Otherwise, I read Pirsig's thing in the 70s called Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Better than A Heartbreaking Work of Indefatigable Intelligence by (damn I don't even feel like looking it up).

The bad places where you are needed are the following:

Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, (remarkably) Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, South Carolina, (apparently) North Carolina, (unfortunately) Arkansas, (sadly) Tennessee.

Except for Texas which is in our actual reality the sixth circle of hell with state-sanctioned murders on a regular basis and the bunker in which war criminal George W. Bush now resides, these are all states that would benefit from your youthful adventurism. And more than the beauty of a relatively darker night with visible stars you could have more than just imagining the joys your parents and grandparents felt, you could feel it yourself.

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by: NealB2 @ Sat Aug 29, 2009 at 23:31:20 PM CDT

I believe you want "A Hearbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," (0.00 / 0)

although I'd agree that it's forgettable, at best. I have certain questions about very recent American fiction and why someone like Eggers thrives while someone like David Markson sits well under the radar. I tend to see the same sort of Versailles corruptions in literary journalism that we speak of in poltical journalism. But if you read a book like Luc Sante's "Low Life" (which, of course, you SHOULD do at any opportunity,) he sort of says somewhere that the loudest noise of the NY hype-machine always tended to go to lesser lights whose names are now largely forgotten.  

At any rate, on the other hand, Eggers' commitment to social activism nicely mirrors the lyrics of this song, and for that he deserves the utmost credit. And Paul, too! As someone whose lived in both LA and NC, with longstanding family ties to both places, I tend to think that Long Beach has plenty for Paul to do. NC has what looks like demographic inevitabilities in it's favor, given that the increasingly progressive Raleigh-Cary is the second fastest growing metro area in the US right now. Raleigh's current schools are now considered to be the most successful model of racial integration in the country. The tide has turned, the clock is ticking, insert metaphor here.

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by: sb @ Sun Aug 30, 2009 at 08:35:23 AM CDT

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Here's one for the Republicans (0.00 / 0)

I started a joke, which started the whole world crying,
But I didn't see that the joke was on me, oh no.

I started to cry, which started the whole world laughing,
Oh, if Id only seen that the joke was on me.

I looked at the skies, running my hands over my eyes,
And I fell out of bed, hurting my head from things that I'd said.

Til' I finally died, which started the whole world living,
Oh, if I'd only seen that the joke was on me.

I looked at the skies, running my hands over my eyes,
And I fell out of bed, hurting my head from things that I'd said.

Til' I finally died, which started the whole world living,
Oh, if I'd only seen that the joke was one me.

(Actually an old Bee Gees song.)

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by: Mark Matson @ Sun Aug 30, 2009 at 00:13:35 AM CDT