Using Bees To Effect Vengeance

I get to be as self-indulgent as I want without wasting anyone's time. Guilt-free solipsism -- excellent!

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Monday, October 21, 2002
 
Congrats to The Julie/Julia Project for getting MSNBC props (in the sidebar, plus scroll down to 10.20)! Richly deserved....

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Tuesday, October 15, 2002
 
Ron Rosenbaum is always a good read (see Explaining Hitler, a book so interesting that one has to unscrew one's head from one's shoulders periodically while reading it so that the poor thing doesn't overheat, a book so interesting that one finds oneself cradling it, rocking it gently in one's arms, and cooing, "I love you so much, Explaining Hitler, you're just so unbearably interesting, yes, yes you are", as if the book was a little Golden Retriever mix puppy or somesuch). Anyway, Ronnie's written a peach of an article for the New York Observer called "Goodbye, All That: How Left Idiocies Drove Me to Flee" about his disillusionment with the Left since 9.11. Some of you who sniffed around Using Bees in those days may recall my own breast-beating about the same subject, and Rosenbaum's article is a nice summation of my feelings. I just expect more from lefties, you know?

The article references Robert Graves' classic look back at the pre-Great War period in England, Good Bye To All That. It's a marvelous book about which I wrote a not-particularly-marvelous paper in college. Why do I mention it? Don't know, really...it's just the sort of mad, impetuous thing I do sometimes. I'm mad, me...I don't care *what* I do. Last night, right, I stayed up until *2 in the morning*. Told you -- I'm bonkers.


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Tuesday, October 08, 2002
 
According to a Newsweek piece, Dave Eggers' new novel is only going to be available via McSweeney's and independent bookstores. No Amazon, no Barnes & Borders, no publisher stoking the hype. Pretty cool, if you ask me -- after all, would you turn down $3 million for your little indie-rock principles? True, it helps to have heaping great vats of cash strewn all over your Pavement records from the last novel you wrote that *did* go through a big publisher and Barnes & Borders. But still.

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Thursday, October 03, 2002
 
A nice Adam Gopnik piece in the New Yorker about Willie Nelson.

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