From Whitehead's website:

The New Yorker published an excerpt their 2008 Winter Fiction Issue. I did a brief Q & A with the fiction editor of the magazine. It answers this important question:

Q: How is Benji different from you?

A: I tend not to act or feel or talk in a way that would add anything worthwhile to an extended work of fiction. I tend not to do things that lend themselves to dramatic unity, aesthetic harmony, and narrative discharge. My leitmotifs are crappy. I need an editor or someone of artistic bent to shape my useless existence into something that would interest other people. Also, I am a real person.

I totally need an editor to shape my existence!

Okay, top twenty. Woot!

Just watched first ep of Torchwood: Children of Earth. Why didn't anyone tell me how cute the doctor was? Is it because he didn't last the episode?

Wheee

and cross post -- the sign we saw saw on a church this weekend

Very BTVS

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Because you didn't ask, Barb. Also, because of what you said.

Michael Jackson: At 40, he will have aged gracefully and will have a handsome more mature look. Talk about an artist's off prediction in 1985.

New thread, wheeee!!

Just finished watching Moonshot. It doesn't matter that Apollo 11 was 40 years ago, it still chokes me up to see and hear about it.

So! I went to jury duty today. Ha ha ha. My panel got called, and I was in voir dire until 6:30pm. I didn't get selected, thank goodness, but I think my current migraine is to do with lack of water and food and STRESS.

Also, my roommate had a pet emergency this evening, AND our landlord wants me to move my car so she can park there next week. The car that currently isn't insured and at least needs a new battery before it runs. Ahahahahaha.

Now, I've procrastinated re: my car for ages because I sometimes SUCK at being a grown up. I guess this means I really should look into a charitable donation, because the thought of dealing with people to sell the car as-is? Probably I'd get arrested, and I don't want to go back to criminal court that soon.

Heeeeeeeeee! ita, so in Sag Harbor, they talk about two black boys who go to a prep school, who are always dressed in Brooks Brothers etc and they talk about how people always assume they are the sons of an African Diplomat, which of course makes me think of you.

I think you'd like this book.

Anybody read any Colson Whitehead?

The Buffista Book Club did The Intuitionist one month, and I really liked it.

Ooh, first quarter-century? It's been a while. Love the title.

This is wigging me out and I have to share:

Teller of Penn & Teller, prop comedian Carrot Top and Neil Gaiman, author of Coraline and the Sandman series, will all step up to the stage