by Josh Delman
I'm a crazy college student who likes to write things. I eat peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon. I've really been appreciating bananas recently. I'm going to start telling people that when they ask me "what's new?"
If you're interested, there's an RSS feed. For your auditory pleasure: my Last.fm. Some jd87 highlights: Live at Westgate, Haikus, Pt. 1.
This site might be a blog, it might be a a repository for fiction, or it might be something else altogether. Please enjoy.
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April 2009
The David Foster Wallace Audio Project #
In before Kottke gets it: The David Foster Wallace Audio Project, a collection of mp3s of David Foster Wallace's voice. There's also a picture of DFW which looks like it was taken when he was in college.
Really, though, it's him reading his stuff, giving interviews, as well as some other people delivering heartfelt eulogies. The question is: who's bold enough to do an audiobook of Infinite Jest? (An idea: Have a bunch of nice folks from all around the internet read portions of it and post it online. It might be a nice tribute.)
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Wii injuries #
Doctors are seeing increases in strains and swelling of knees and shoulders from overuse of the Nintendo Wii:
Dr. John Sperling, a physician at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., called the aches and pains a sign of the times. “It’s a syndrome of injuries and people presenting with complaints that we couldn’t have imagined three years ago,” he said.
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Time Cube #
The Time Cube has been around for a while. It's worth checking out again:
EARTH HAS 4 CORNER
SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY
TIME CUBE
IN ONLY 24 HOUR ROTATION.
4 Corner TIME, CUBES EARTH.
An interview with Gene Ray, the Wisest Human (he owns thewisesthuman.com) on the short lived TechTV show Unscrewed with Martin Sargent*. I love the matter-of-face way Mr. Ray says "they're just paperweights."
*A show which I recall to be mildly entertaining, a little childish. It came on usually when I was about to go to sleep, which means I often fell asleep with the TV on, but missing over half the episode.
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"Corporation" fragment, circa 2007 FICTION #
I work for a large corporation. A very large corporation, in fact, located in Seattle, that specializes in overcharging for a commodity so addictive that overeager businessmen and college students alike are willing to shell out six dollars a day for twelve ounces of it – so addictive that they would probably have it intravenously injected if they could. Ten years ago, to the day, I also once spent three days in Los Angeles smoking hash out of an apple and mainlining Jack Daniels in the back of a rust colored Chevelle, so you can understand why a business meeting full of executives droning on about “corporate identity” would leave me bored. And when I’m bored, and I block out the endless monotony of my “esteemed colleagues” practically massaging each other’s prostates with their sycophantic ranting, my ability to observe what other people are doing increases dramatically. I notice how Steve, vice president of marketing, fidgets with his Montblanc Starwalker every time someone mentions the word “money.” ♦
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