September 25, 2009

f*ck a warren commission — here’s the REAL conspiracy. via @jsmooth995, PROOF that satanic freemasons run hip-hop. http://tr.im/zDS9

September 24, 2009

I am wary of new-media know-it-alls, but man that @cshirky is a smart cookie. http://bit.ly/awtpv (by way of @alexismadrigal)

September 21, 2009

ok, mom, you win. I just bought “Free To Be You and Me,” so that my son will be able to cry as freely as I can. wait, I’m misting up…

September 13, 2009

Holy cats, my man @nxthompson is having a good month. First all the #vanish stuff, now a nice nyt profile re his new book. Congrats, homie!

September 10, 2009

RT @nxthompson: ABC World News Tonight w/ Charlie Gibson has scheduled segment on @Wired’s hunt for Evan Ratliff. Tonight, 6:30! #vanish

September 1, 2009

hey, @stevesilberman! my doctor dad won’t stop talking about your placebo piece. he loved it!

Wow! I can play as tragically miserable Kurt Cobain in Guitar Hero 5? I’m holding out for David Foster Wallace in Novelist Hero.

August 30, 2009

“…stopped them in an unprickly thicket of what later turned out to be poison sumac and turned with a strange glint in the one eye…”

why will we miss david foster wallace? sentences like this one (clears throat): “At which point USS Millicent…”

“…that wasn’t in pine-shadow and crushed Mario’s large head to the area just below her breasts and said she needed to confess that…”