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I thought Kanye West losing $1.5 billion was bad with his stupid communication and thinking, but then I read that Musk lost $200 Billion. We lost Pele, Barbara Walters, Madeleine Albright, Queen Elizabeth and Meatloaf, James Caan, Ray Liotta, Nichelle Nichols, Olivia Newton-John. Life is impermanent.  Also Grant Wahl died, a soccer journalist, and Jean Franco, a great Latin American literary critic.  My most hits post was:  Character list of Inherent Vice the novel . That was my favorite novel that I read in 2022 (came out 2009). I also like my comparison of the novel versus the movie. My most popular blog post this year, by far, is my Buddhism blog:  Wynn Alan Bruce . I read 24 books to completion and many more were started, skimmed, sampled. 

 

"There are also a number of carefully orchestrated analepses: to the day several months earlier when the first V-2 rocket fell on England; to an Easter 1942 air raid by Allied bombers on the German city of Lübeck..." (Steven Weisenburger) analepses: in which a past event is narrated at a point later than its chronological place in a story. "The name "Jamf" apparently derives from an acronym used by Charlie Parker: "Jive-Ass Mother-Fucker"!" Not for p. 48 from Wiki Today I'm thinking Pynchon is a poet and a beat writer, he's riffing so much better than Kerouac. Kerouac is Desmond and Pynchon is Bird. Googled "The White Visitionation": "The White Visitation (the secret unit of psychological warfare) is following Slothrop, studying him, and setting up sexual exploits for Slothrop to determine the pattern of the next rocket strike." ( HardlyWritten ) Steven Weisenburge's companion to GR from William Nichols’s Third Book...

My daughter saw the Simpsons episode where Lisa breaks out in this number. To give her some context I had her watch Barbra Streisand, and she wouldn't see any more.  Lisa Simpson version Barbra Streisand version Lea Michele version from Glee  Santana (Naya Rivera) version from Glee Lillias White

P.12 “…a strange talent for—well, for getting inside the fantasies of others: being able, actually, to take over the burden of managing them…” “…Pirate’s career as a fantasist-surrogate, and go back to when he was carrying, everywhere he went, the mark of Youthful Folly growing in an unmistakable Mongoloid points, right out of the middle of his head.” Johnny Doughboy found a rose in Ireland ( Spotify : Freddy Martin and His Orchestra) (Bing Crosby on YouTube ) There are quite a few versions. Listened to a podcast , and it wasn't about this, but they mention that there aren't really any female characters, and much of the novel has sort of juvenile male attitudes towards women. He probably didn't get the Pulitzer because of his childish male viewpoint. They decided just to not give one that year. They say what is good is the relationship to technology and perhaps it's a cyberpunk novel.  I'm not sure what the issue is with male sexuality. It might not be high literatu...

12/17/22 I started the book. I will update this record of my reading. I read about half of it in the 90’s. I’m going to try again. This is a collection of references, I'll try writing essay later. It starts: “Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transfor-mation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. -Werner von Braun” I'm going to read Steven C. Weisenburger's companion : "In many ways doing this book was fun. It meant readings in American pop and material culture, the occult, varieties of pseudoscience, real science, vernacular geography, and forty-year-old news periodicals—to mention just a few fields I wandered into." Robert Crayola's Handbook: "“Gravity's Rainbow, however you approach it, is a difficult book. Widely regarded as a classic, new readers may read fifty or a hundred pages with feelings of confusion and disgust, wonder why t...

The lead character reminds me of my cousin, the way he talks. My cousin has a twin and they're similar in ways, but to me they are very different. I've always been able to tell them apart and some people can't. Fleishman is in Trouble  has Lizzy Caplan who was Nick Miller's girlfriend (as a role) in New Girl. I like her as an actress and the two roles she's played that I know. I thought she was Zooey Deschanel's twin, and I thought she had a twin, but she has a sister who acts on Bones.  I've never cried as much as I do in this show. After I watched the first one, I had the guts to watch Marriage Story (2019) which I'd avoided watching. I guess I need more catharsis because it really hurts to watch these shows. I love it that he's non-materialistic, even if it's a sort of a pose. I love it that Josh Radnor plays the ball and chain husband after being the star of How I Met Your Mother . At the heart is the friendship of the 3 people over a life s...