I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Evening. It is often true that the fitting end of writers is the end itself
sigh.
R.I.P
And, as mentioned below, the inspiration for the name of this 'blog.
Alas, poor Yorick!
I'm at a loss for words.
Holy shit.
That is awful.
Sorry to hear it.
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never made it through "infinite jest," but i loved "another supposedly fun thing i'll never do again."
the man was a helluva writer.
wow. just... wow.
Geesh, the end times indeed.
Poor, poor little Sarah Palin.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness
HOWL
Hanged himself at 46. Very sad indeed.
RIP
Merrill Lynch is next?
He was truly too intelligent for this world.
His philosophy professor at Amherst (I think) flat out told told him he was a genius.
the horror!
a horrible discovery!
Sarah Palin is NOT a leftist abortion-hag like Gloria Steinem or Hillary Clinton!
the utter horror!
O the humanity!
May the Goddess guard him. May he find his way to the Summerlands. May his friends and family know peace.
I never read his book, but I am in his debt, if for no other reason, for the inspiration he provided to A in his creation of this lovely, mad community.
Go look at the lovely full moon, you Moonbats!
Looks like Sarah is a tornado who plows down anything in her way if it doesn't fit her "worldview."
46 is a dangerous age.
That is so sad. Makes me think of John Kennedy Toole. Writing can be such a bitch.
Genius and madness may be on the same gene..
Sorry to hear it Atrios
46 is a dangerous age.
Yeah, it is.
46 is a dangerous age.
Oh great. That one's next on the smalfish radar.
personal torment without escape or hope
Sarah Moose needs baggy pants to Scaramouche.
Jim Campilongo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B...h?v=Bvua4unz-
JI
Ack, that reminds me, I still have a friend's copy of Infinite Jest that I haven't returned...
Yeah, he went to Amherst, where my gf's daughter just graduated.
A lot of good writers graduate from there.
46 is a dangerous age.
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian | 09.13.08 - 9:40 pm |
i'm 46.
Genius and madness may be on the same gene.
As the poet said:
Life and death upon one tether/ And running beautiful together.
can anyone tell me about the stability of J.P. Morgan Chase?
I just refinanced and they have the note. Makes me nervous that they were considering buying WaMu
Genius and madness may be on the same gene.
Stereotype until proven otherwise.
personal torment without escape or hope
pigboy
No. It is perceiving the world as it should be and not being able to communicate the necessity and will and EASE of accomplishing this to others.
Genius and madness may be on the same gene.
Or a bad seratonin level.
HellKitty, let me call Mlle's bf. Was a broker for four years with them.
Sad for his family, but I think folks should have the option to leave when they think it's time.
That said, it's time for me to leave the intertubes for tonight, to be joined again on the morrow.
For those who would like some good news, I offer Bonus Critter Blogging, which, if you folks would freakin' click on the link I provide each week, might cheer you up.
I've never gotten to the point that I don't want to live. Must be a terrible feeling.
I just refinanced and they have the note.
You won't be affected even if they do go down.
Hecate: Go look at the lovely full moon, you Moonbats!
I just did. I regret that my camera is not capable of getting an image of it.
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Hey NTodd,
Probably a stupid question for you, but I have a v. stupid dog (even though I love him).
I've always had problems with him "sneaking a pee" in the dining room, so in 2007, I pulled all the carpet out and put in a hardwood floor.
The house has been odorific again, and I caught him peeing on the leg of the glass table in the dining room. My table is placed on a rug; the floor is open, as I said above.
Anything I can do to keep him from doing this? The dining room/kitchen area are open, so a gate between the two won't work.
Any ideas?
Thanking you in advance.
HellKitty, let me call Mlle's bf. Was a broker for four years with them.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 09.13.08 - 9:44 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
Merci Madame. That is greatly appreciated.
The only writer I had listed on Amazon for reminders. Many of his pieces were beyond me, and many others required several reads for a simple high-IQ like my own to fully appreciate.
Genius is hard. There's no question about that.
I hope he wrote a 900 page suicide note, with a ton of footnotes.
Goddamit.
Love lost, for me.
OK Pay attention people.
It doesn't not matter if someone you owe money to goes out of business. Someone always buys your note from them.
therealkitty--doesnt matter if you are the borrower, only if you are a shareholder or note holder--of their note.
can anyone tell me about the stability of J.P. Morgan Chase?
The name tells you everything. No way a Morgan or a Chase bank will be allowed to fail. They hold all the cards. If you wanna know who "They" are, it's them.
"Life and death upon one tether/ And running beautiful together."
... beautifully put, Hecate.
I meant Doesn't matter. I blame the Viet Cong.
The Go
http://www.myspace.com/thegodetroit
46 is a dangerous age.
I found 51 to be my "shit or git" age.
Fortunately for me I decided to take care of the shit.
You won't be affected even if they do go down.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | 09.13.08 - 9:44 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
They are jonesing for all of my business..good checking account 7.9% on a credit card etc. Just thought I'd ask before I take the plunge
This Boeckman guy.
Sit him on the fucking bench and put Pryor in.
If you wanna know who "They" are, it's them.
Well, that's what the Illuminatii want you to believe . . . .
/Snark
Gomez said it best. If you owe money to someone, they'll sell your note to someone else and you'll be no worse off than before. If you give your money to someone to keep and they're either not insured by the FDIC or if you've got more than $100,000 with them, you could be screwed.
Genius and madness may be on the same gene.
David Foster Wallace and Ruthie the Duck Girl
RIP
Sen. Barack Obama's spokesman on Saturday accused Sen. John McCain of "cynically running the sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern presidential campaign history."
Obama, speaking to a crowd Saturday in Manchester, New Hampshire, said, "John McCain wants to have a debate about national security; let's have that debate. I warned that going into Iraq would distract us from Afghanistan. John McCain cheerleaded for it. John McCain was wrong, and I was right."
"The McCain-[Sarah] Palin ticket, they don't want to debate the Obama-Biden ticket on issues because they are running on eight more years of what we've just seen. And they know it," the Democratic presidential nominee said. "As a consequence, what they're going to spend the next seven, eight weeks doing is trying to distract you.
"They're going to talk about pigs, and they're going to talk about lipstick; they're going to talk about Paris Hilton, they're going to talk about Britney Spears. They will try to distort my record, and they will try to undermine your trust in what the Democrats intend to do."
From below:
This is from 2002 in response to a question regarding this nascent blog:
He wonders why this place is called Eschaton. Surprisingly, he's the first one to ask. When I decided to start this my brain quickly tried to retrieve from its recesses some obscure-yet-appropriate reference to, well, something, and it offered up this one. It refers to a small passage in David Foster Wallace's monster book Infinite Jest in which students at a private tennis academy play a complicated game called Eschaton. It's a strange half-explained simulation of WWIII, sort of a Risk-like wargame played on tennis courts, with tennis ball bombardment representing nuclear bombardment. The game has arcane rules requiring a computer to compute the value of each "hit" based on position, trajectory, etc... In the passage the game eventually gets completely out of hand and the rules break down.
This is how "POW" works:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos...deos/
ebf425277b
Funny, when the company holding my mortgage goes broke I still have to pay...
David Foster Wallace
So young and so much promise.
This is a tragic loss to the author's spouse, his family, his friends, his readers, and to literature itself.
Peace.
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"Life and death upon one tether/ And running beautiful together."
... beautifully put, Hecate.
I stole it from a poet who wrote one amazing poem in his entire life. Which is far more than most manage.
Boeckman can hardly walk without getting his feet tangled up--
what is it with these OSU clods?
The Muggs
http://www.myspace.com/themuggs
Having lived through a baby sister's cancer, I wish there was some way to change places with someone who wants to leave.
I understand the pain that can drive someone to look for a release, I try not to judge or blame because often they're wired to see more clearly and feel more deeply than most. Our artist friend was like that.
But when you watch a little kid go through hell to live, well, you get my drift.
Funny, when the company holding my mortgage goes broke I still have to pay...
George Johnston
For the same reason the US Treasury has to honor any cash they have on hand.
Or a bad seratonin level.
Trivia:
In Casablanca, how old is Rick (Bogart) according to the film?
Alaska lawmakers voted Friday to subpoena Gov. Sarah Palin's husband, several aides and phone records in their investigation into Palin's firing of her public safety commissioner, setting up what one senator called a "branch-versus-branch smackdown."
Todd Palin has been a "principal critic" of his wife's ex-brother-in-law, state Trooper Mike Wooten, and had "many contacts" with Department of Public Safety officials about his status, said Steve Branchflower, the former prosecutor hired by the state Legislature to investigate the firing.
Sarah Palin, now the Republican nominee for vice president, is battling allegations that she and her advisers pressured then-Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan to fire Wooten and that Monegan was terminated when he refused.
Palin has said she fired Monegan over budget issues and denies any wrongdoing.
Branchflower said 16 of the 33 people he planned to interview have given statements. But since last week, when Palin's attorneys began to argue that the state Personnel Board should handle the investigation, numerous witnesses have refused to cooperate.
This Boeckman guy.
Sit him on the fucking bench and put Pryor in.
Gomez
You didn't think OSU was going to win this game, did you?
"Infinite Jest is a big beast of a book, a long hard slog, but well worth it."
damn, what a shame...amazing talent. I never finished this book, but was awestruck at the writing.
"I stole it from a poet who wrote one amazing poem in his entire life."
Published?
OK Pay attention people...
Gosh, you could be a bankruptcy lawyer!
The critics should take his self-annihilation as a clue.
In Casablanca, how old is Rick (Bogart) according to the film?
41?
Anything I can do to keep him from doing this? The dining room/kitchen area are open, so a gate between the two won't work.
Ooh, that's tough. Not sure offhand, but I've got some dog behavior links I can dig up for you. E-mail me to remind me and I'll send?
Gosh, you could be a bankruptcy lawyer!
dave™©
Well, I slept at a Holiday Inn Express.
Barack Obama doesn't need baggy pants to Scaramouche.
Damon Johnson
http://www.myspace.com/damonjohnsonmusic
edub--did you know when you posted that downstairs that he had died?
it was freaky to have just read your comment, and i admit, i'd never heard of david foster wallace before, then come up here to see his name again and that he'd died.
i blame the beautiful moon.
Well, I slept at a Holiday Inn Express.
Them guys are good!
The clowns are The Clown, Dog Shit, The Runs and the Cannibal.
In Casablanca, how old is Rick (Bogart) according to the film?
41?
Bogie was 37, IIRC, and yeah, I think he was supposedly in his early 40s.
Both my guys are on the balcony, in the hot, humid Nashville night air.
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I like Casablanca, but for some real fun watch A Night In Casablanca starring the Marx Brothers. Funny stuff.
"This Boeckman guy.
Sit him on the fucking bench and put Pryor in.
Gomez"
my wife isn't having a good birfday, even tho she didn't go in with high hopes.
You didn't think OSU was going to win this game, did you?
edub
Pryor is a game changer.
the real hellkitty: i haven't read everything here but be advised that most banks don't keep the home loans they originate - they sell them off in pools, and often they are securitized. (That means they go into a trust and bonds get sold, with those mortgages as collateral. Each month when the mortgage payments come in they get distributed to the bondholders.)
Whether Chase has problems or not won't have any effect on your loan as your loan terms are established by your documents. Any entity which owns your loan has to abide by them.
Bogie was 37, IIRC.
Jesus Fucking Christ...
Anything I can do to keep him from doing this? The dining room/kitchen area are open, so a gate between the two won't work.
Does the dog pee outside, also? How old is the dog?
What a shame. I met him at a book signing about 12 years ago. He was a really nice guy. His description of the wind in central Illinois in the spring and how the wind effects a tennis ball is wonderful. I think it is in "A Suppossedly Fun Thing to do tht I'll Never Do Again."
Pryor will end up being the Michael Jordan of pro football.
Jeebus. I just had to replace my very expensive video card. So I got a new gaming card. This SOB weighs at least two or three pounds, and is about 14 inches long.
that's terrible. i found this blog after reading the infinite jest - the name eschaton really jumped out at me from someone else's blogroll.
sad.
Bogie was 37, IIRC, and yeah, I think he was supposedly in his early 40s.
He's 37 in the movie, too.
Major Strasser reads his dossier out loud.
37! I'm effing older than Bogie in Casablanca!! He looks 10x the adult I'll ever be!
Vicki--Tricia McConnell has some great dog training books out, including simple, step by step, methods for dealing with problems like yours.
Pryor is a game changer.
Gomez
Unless he can play defense, he can't change much.
Nice play by the db, in any case.
The game has arcane rules requiring a computer to compute the value of each "hit" based on position, trajectory, etc... In the passage the game eventually gets completely out of hand and the rules break down.
edub
So in other words he could have just called this place "Calvinball" if only he could have gotten permission from Waterson? 
Good news, kids - I'm about to leave to meet my lovely wife and then have dinner at the fabulous Chez In-n-Out Burger!
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... Double-Double!!!
Ooh, that's tough. Not sure offhand, but I've got some dog behavior links I can dig up for you. E-mail me to remind me and I'll send?
NTodd aka Snowshoe Man Palin
Merci. Very much.
I have no problem picking up after the goof, but the smell I cannot stand. It's really rainy today, so that may be part of it, plus my mom was over, so that is definitely part of it...
The poor little guy is just...challenged. He'll bark if someone walks by, but he will not bark to tell me to let him out. So I put him out for hours at a time just to be sure. He'll also hold his poo sometimes for a couple of days until I walk him, and then eliminate four or five times on a walk, even though he's been out for several hours, several times a day.
Weird. I never care about this kind of thing, and am watching the USC-OSU game myself, but I had so much respect for D.F. Wallace I find the non-related commentary strangely disrespectful of our host, the author, and the special talent both have. Though I have no doubt Duncan would agree he couldn't write like Wallace.
*shrug* I suppose this is part and parcel to why I don't like to be called an Atriot, or a firepup, or a member of any other goddamn club.
Even though I lurk on the outside of so many of them for all the good things they bring.
This really bums me out.
Wallace was the most amazing writer of my generation. Far and above the rest. I will miss him profoundly.
He's 37 in the movie, too.
Are his eyes really brown?
Hellkitty, Morgan has enough reserves, especially on the institutional side, that it should cover anything that goes south on the retail side. So you should be fine.
smalfish: Jeebus. I just had to replace my very expensive video card. So I got a new gaming card. This SOB weighs at least two or three pounds, and is about 14 inches long.
I've never had such a thang. They's gots their own CPU now, mostly, yes?
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Unless he can play defense, he can't change much.
One TD was an interception thrown by the QB that should be riding the bench.
It would be inappropriate if we didn't think we could lose.
The poor little guy is just...challenged.
Email my wife - she might have some tips.
Other way around: Bogie was 37 in the movie (Strasser reads his dossier aloud).
Bogie was 42 or 43 at the time.
Glad you shared your thoughts, John O.
I'm afraid that does make you an atriot, though.
Can't be undone now, either.
vicki,
shock collar and every time he sets paw on carpet, give him a zap?
A little cold, but ...
Very sad. My bf killed herself, she was in her late 40s. get an email from her widower today-after many years alone he finally found someone to love. Besides the trauma involved when your spouse kills him/herself, it's quite a barrier to forming a new relationship.
HOld on, I gotta check IMDB now. FUck.
This SOB weighs at least two or three pounds, and is about 14 inches long.
Dude, you're deformed!
Wallace's wife called police at 9:30 p.m. Friday saying she had returned home to find her husband had hanged himself.
Looks like Palin-mania has claimed another victim.
Tricia McConnell has some great dog training books out, including simple, step by step, methods for dealing with problems like yours.
Thanks, noblejoanie! I'll look into that, too.
Puck is 8 years old. He was born on Labor Day weekend, 2000, and I got him 2 weeks before the election. I was set to name him "Al Gore," but Audrey put her foot down.
In retrospect, I'm glad that she did. Al would be very ashamed to know that he had a canine shadow who is rather ignorant.
Vicki, obviously you tried to potty train him too soon.
37! I'm effing older than Bogie in Casablanca!! He looks 10x the adult I'll ever be!
Comptroller Atkins | 09.13.08 - 9:57 pm | #
Well, there was only one Bogie ...
He'll also hold his poo sometimes for a couple of days until I walk him, and then eliminate four or five times on a walk, even though he's been out for several hours, several times a day.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
Possibly old age?
. They's gots their own CPU now, mostly, yes?
And fans that sound like Barry from Alaska's normal ride.
Okay, Bogie was born in Dec 1899 and Casablance was 1942 (released in January 43). So he was 43 when filming.
"Are my eyes really brown?"
Wallace was the most amazing writer of my generation. Far and above the rest. I will miss him profoundly.
John O
Well said, all around.
But trying in impose "thread discipline" on this group would be like trying to herd cats. And by that I mean no disrespect to the amazing individuals who post here.
It's a free-for-all, and DFW would appreciate that, I think.
I'm just gutted. It reminds me of when Hunter S. Thompson killed himself.
I gave a copy of 'A Supposedly Fun Thing...' to a friend who'd worked on a cruise line for a while. He appreciated it muchly.
And his work for Harper's and The Atlantic is worth reading, too.
Vicki, I had a dog like that. Wouldn't bark to be let out, would just sit and stare at me, attempting the Cocker mind meld. "Look at me, I have to peeeeeee."
*shrug* I suppose this is part and parcel to why I don't like to be called an Atriot, or a firepup, or a member of any other goddamn club.
Even though I lurk on the outside of so many of them for all the good things they bring.
This really bums me out.
Wallace was the most amazing writer of my generation. Far and above the rest. I will miss him profoundly.
John O
Don't let the door hit you where the good lord split you, k?
I've never had such a thang. They's gots their own CPU now, mostly, yes?
Oh yeah. They're now called GPU. It has it's own heat sink and monster fan that gets vented outside the box as well.
Wow... going through random play, I'm discovering music I forgot I had...!
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Can't be undone now, either. - noblejoanie
Well, Hecate could turn him into a newt, but he hasn't given her any reason to.
The son of a moderately wealthy Manhattan surgeon (who was secretly addicted to opium) and a famed magazine illustrator, Humphrey Bogart was educated at Trinity School, New York City, sent to Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in preparation for medical studies at Yale. He was expelled from Phillips and joined the U.S. Naval Reserve.
Welcome to my side of the hill, Jeffraham.
An unending storm of cataclysmic proportions that covers the earth?
It's still a mandatory evacuation, rules are rules.
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John O
thanks for that
I find the non-related commentary strangely disrespectful of our host, the author, and the special talent both have. Though I have no doubt Duncan would agree he couldn't write like Wallace.
It's not strange, it's Eschaton. If Atrios finds it disrespectul, I guess he'll let us know.
I'm not in mourning. I'm too tired, sorry if that's cold.
Jeez, Bogart died at age 57.
I feel old...
I dare anyone to try and herd me.
Vicki, I had a dog like that. Wouldn't bark to be let out, would just sit and stare at me, attempting the Cocker mind meld. "Look at me, I have to peeeeeee."
debit
So you understand!
well, there is come condolence in osu getting spanked: mi sucks worser.
I'm 57. Bogart was old. Hmm.
I don't mourn suicides.
Yeah, DWD, thanks.
You're an obviously compassionate soul.
I'll hang where I want to. That's the upside of my non-club-membership.
I'll bet most of the people out here had no idea what "Eschaton" referred to. It was one of my first clues to the intellect of our host.
I knew.
Like his friends John Huston and Spencer Tracy, Bogart was a heavy smoker and a heavy drinker, allegedly sustaining up to five packs of Chesterfields a day
I knew.
Well, whoop-de-fucking-do.
Now enjoy the buffet...
Vicki, obviously you tried to potty train him too soon.
I find the non-related commentary strangely disrespectful of our host
I find your concern strange.
I don't mourn suicides.
Gomez
You never met our friend Scott or you might make an exception.
ErinPDX, 2 knockers for peace |
This reminds us...
Tonight, while driving home from our anniversary dinner with Mrs. IJC, a white Mustang cut us off on a major road with only inches to spare. Once we switched lanes and caught up to the dumbass, we called out our window, "ASSHOLE!" to which the driver responded:
"You jerk, I'm a woman. I can't be an asshole!"
Gotta admit, that made us laugh.
"Though I have no doubt Duncan would agree he couldn't write like Wallace."
there probably is less then a handful that could.
ROSE HILL DRIVE
http://www.myspace.com/rosehilldrive
I find your concern strange.
I find your finding of concern strangely strange.
Sarah Palin = Joan Holloway
Supposedly, Bogart's last words were "I should never have switched from Scotch to martinis."
You never met our friend Scott or you might make an exception.
noblejoanie
Its the one that make performance art out of it that bother me.
If you want to kill yourself, take some fucking pills.
I don't mourn suicides.
I do. My SIL committed suicide just over 2 years ago and it still breaks me up.
I find your finding of concern strangely strange.
I find your finding of strangeness of finding concern strangely strange somewhat offputting, personally...
The Answer
http://www.myspace.com/theanswerrock
I'll bet most of the people out here had no idea what "Eschaton" referred to.
Wrong.
Vicki the dog is 48.
Y'all are making me want to shave.
My neck, anyway.
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noblejoannie -- yeah, but you don't look 57 - 47 maybe
I wouldn't call it concern, really, NTodd.
More shock and awe, as it were.
Nobody is more of a first amendment purist than I am, and I love the chaos of the blogosphere.
This one hit me hard. So pile on everyone. Have fun! I assure you I won't take it personally; another benefit of non-membership.
Simply, I found Wallace's voice a thing to look forward to. Sue me, ridicule me, and blow me.
I don't care. The world is filled with morons, and one less genius is not good for any of us.
Glyder
http://www.myspace.com/glyder
Gomez,
My ex-husband tried pills. It failed.
You're out of your league here. Suicide sucks for the people left behind, regardless.
Are you SURE you haven't been purged from voter rolls?
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The elephants are pissed:
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) - At least six people have been killed in southern Nepal in rampages by wild elephants in the last two days, police said Saturday.
"Five people were trampled to death overnight while one was killed on Friday morning in the villages of Saptari and neighbouring Siraha districts," police officer Bhoj Narayan Shrestha told AFP.
Police said three wild elephants entered the villages from the jungles bordering India and attacked people as they slept.
"We believe the elephants come inside Nepal from (neighbouring) India. They disappear inside the jungle during the day and come to attack villagers at night," Shrestha said.
The officer said a team of police had been mobilised to chase away the elephants, which are protected as an endangered species under Nepali law.
Shrinking forests and encroachment on elephant territory has forced the animals to stray into human settlements looking for food, often resulting in attacks, experts say.
I'll bet most of the people out here had no idea what "Eschaton" referred to.
I never knew, till tonight.
This one hit me hard. So pile on everyone.
I'm sorry for your loss. But some of us have different priorities and interests and this is a free-for-all at all times.
Robert Randolf
http://www.myspace.com/robertrandolph
Yep! It took two years to get it in her head not to pee on the floor. Then she decided that since the cushions on the couch weren't on the floor...
We wound up doing two things. One: becoming hyper aware of her body language and asking her on a regular basis, "Want to go out?" Two: not leaving her loose when we were gone. Couldn't crate her since she submission peed when being let out, so we ended up tethering her inside; she had a six foot play of leash, her blankie, food and water and we never had a problem since.
noblejoannie -- yeah, but you don't look 57 - 47 maybe
i was just going so say "57? no way."
Duncan --
every time i hit up yr blog it is a happy reminder of reading IJ and I just wanted to thank you for it.
everyone else --
If you've been off-put by the awesome length of 'Infinite Jest', my advice is: find 'A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again' -- pick an essay and read it. People generally have one of two reactions to his non-fiction, either "I've got to read everything this guy wrote" or "I don't get it."
Get it.
Gomez,
My ex-husband tried pills. It failed.
You're out of your league here. Suicide sucks for the people left behind, regardless.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
My uncle killed himself 20 years ago.
I said "most."
And, just for the record, I'm very pro-death, and consider strongly that everyone's body and life is their own, and can decide they've had enough on their own volition.
I don't disrespect the choice Wallace made at all. I will simply miss his writing in a big, big way.
I'll bet most of the people out here had no idea what "Eschaton" referred to. It was one of my first clues to the intellect of our host.
I knew.
John O
Well, let me see: I have been hanging around here contributing my bullshit for years. I really do not even know how many. You, to the best of my knowledge, have graced this place with your sterling intellect TONIGHT. And now you deign to insult me: fuck you.
I figure I am going to die in the next week or so if things do not improve. I wrote the answer to why the man killed himself above: you ignored it. Went right over your intellectually superior fucking head.
Kiss my ass.
My ex-husband tried pills. It failed.
That's what my SIL did. NTodd's Pa's Bro, on the other hand, blew his head off just before Xmas last year while I was at Code Pink. Got the news just after I'd accosted Larry Craig. Sigh.
That's a great tool they've got there, Jeffraham. I say as long as the young folks vote, we're gonna be OK.
Being at ground zero in what some say could be the swing state, I gotta tell ya that the McCain ad as a reformer, with "Palin being against the Bridge to Nowhere," has outlived its shelf life, especially with the liar meme coming to life.
I wonder if other people get that creepy, liar feeling every time they see it?
Hellkitty, Morgan has enough reserves, especially on the institutional side, that it should cover anything that goes south on the retail side. So you should be fine.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 09.13.08 - 9:58 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
Thank you. That's what I wanted to know.
TEBB, I do understand the secondary mortgage market...I just didn't know if Chase sells their notes on the secondary or held them. Maybe they only hold the best. Who knows?
Suicide sucks for the people left behind, regardless.
yeah, that poor wife finding him like that. jeebus
'A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again'
i had projectile tears of laughter reading the title essay.
sad.
That's what my bf did, blew her head off. Unusual method for a woman. I'm only slightly haunted by it, after almost 10 years, but I'm sure her daughter will never get over it.
yeah, that poor wife finding him like that. jeebus
ErinPDX, 2 knockers for peace
Which is my point about the "performance art"
"Thoughts of suicide have kept me alive many a night."
Who said that?
True for me, definitely.
NTodd's Pa's Bro, on the other hand, blew his head off just before Xmas last year while I was at Code Pink.
That's tough...I didn't know that.
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(Sorry folks, things are NOT getting better and I am thinking of going to the ER this evening. Been more than a week since I ate anything more than a cup of soup. Not feeling well at all. Sorry John O. Just in a bad fucking mood)
LOL, DWD, except for the maybe you'll die soon thing, which I hope was some sort of of artistic license.
I've commented here for years. Just not daily.
And as a chronic depressive with a really strong family history of same, several suicides among my close ones, and a full-blown intent to commit one of my own before I'm institutionalized, how about we just call "suicide" as a topic an agree-to-disagree?
So fuck you, and good luck with your God of choice, too, if I misunderstood you and you were being literal.
*wink*
Somehow or another I got through the suicide thing. Like you look at death, consider it, and then shrug, move on. YMMV
Sad for his family, but I think folks should have the option to leave when they think it's time.
Seems to me to be a lot of aggression involved in leaving your body for someone else to find in that way.
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DWD, Atrios had a description of why he named his blog Eschaton (I don't see it now) on the blog for a long time. Why are you being so mean?
But I guess I'm out of my league.
DWD, I did not realize you were feeling that bad. Go to the ER if you need to, but Sunday morning would probably be a better time than Saturday night. At least around here, it's a zoo on Sat.night.
NTodd, I didn't know that either. Give your dad a hug for me.
The cruelest thing about suicide is what it does to the ones left behind -- a sign, I think, of just how desperate & not in their right minds suicides are -- no one would want to do that to people they care about (IMHO)
(Sorry folks, things are NOT getting better and I am thinking of going to the ER this evening. Been more than a week since I ate anything more than a cup of soup. Not feeling well at all. Sorry John O. Just in a bad fucking mood)
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DWD you really need to get some help with your health. I read what you said earlier about the post surgery hernia...this could be adhesions as you suggested I hate to think that you are feeling so bad. Please take care of yourself.
OK, DWD, apology sincerely accepted. I hate myself when I assume everyone else is like me.
You take care of yourself. I'm sorry for being such a dick. I have the capacity for incredible viciousness, and I'm not proud of it.
Hang in there.
DWD, definitely go if you're not doing well. Wishing you all the very best.
DWD - S☮S
Sending my light being
DWD.
Hush it. Just this once.
And since I missed the last 20. Apologies. Peace. Look after yourself.
Suicide is a birthright.
My grandfather, with whom I spent an enormous amount of both my childhood and early-adult life, himself an only child, found his own mother hanging.
He hung tough. Made 8 kids, was a truly brittle diabetic since the early '40's, and the most left-brained person I had ever known. Add to all that, a mortality expert. He prepared us for his death from the time I was a little boy.
And then his reasonably healthy wife, my beloved-by-all grandmother, died suddenly of a stroke, which killed all 30 or so of her progeny in a deep way.
My grandfather was Mr. Magoo incarnate. I'm not kidding. Across the damn board; bad eyesight, white-knuckle car rides, rude and insensitive. I found out several years after he died that my grandmother's sister and her husband were so absent in my life mostly because they couldn't stand my grandfather. I loved him, though. Self educated, tough as nails, realistic as anyone ever to walk the planet. Politically active, once a union organizer, later a full-metal libertarian tax cutting Republican. Like him, his kind is dead.
My grandmother was everything golden under the sun. Plants and birds and cats and dogs just loved her, as did every person she ever came in touch with.
Get yourself to a Dr. if you want to keep up the good fight, DWD. Just by virtue of you being here, I know I think you have fight.
We thought 100% dependent Grandpa (on Grandma) would die within months of her loss. LOL. I brought him personally to the emergency room with blood sugars as low as 8 and as high as 515, for 5 years to come.
Tough. As. Nails.
Anyone heard from Agave?
god dammit
jesus fucking christ. he was almost exactly my age and the one writer my age I thought really got things the way I get them. fuck.
Why commit suicide at 46? You've made it this far, just eat more fatty foods and you'll did of some blood clot somewhere.
"Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did it without ever reducing his characters to mouthpieces or his books to tracts. His concern was always what it is to be a human being—that is, how to be an actual *person*, someone whose life is informed by values and principles, instead of just an especially shrewd kind of self-preserving animal." --DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
"Infinite Jest" is the best novel of the last 20 years. What a fucking shame.
NO.
Bastard. Fucking bastard. Fucking genius bastard.
I've heard of the book; and after reading the synopsis, perhaps it was more autobiographical than even the author himself realized.
And to those who don't know what its like to be at place where the "big sleep, where one does not dream," is preferable to living, I can only say, "how fortunate for you, and may you never."
Sitting on the edge of the bed, crying, tears bluring the view staring down at the cold and black steel barrel, fingers twittering in and out of the trigger guard, begging for the nerve, but also begging for something better. Whether unconcious instinctive self-preservation, stupid luck, or a corner of mind hoping against hope, pulling the trigger the finger met resistance. The safety was still on.
I'm in good "suicide position."
As I've told my very much loved mother, "Don't worry, I'm not killing myself until I'm out of money."
Should have at least 5-10 years left.
But there's not much point in going on without money in 21st Century America.
As I always like to say, "I'll be dead soon enough anyway."
Tribute - with art:
http://www.salon.com/09/features.../wallace1.html/
Interesting angle (it would have been interesting to read Wallace's take on McCain 200
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http://archive.salon.com/politic...lace/
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Condolences to his family.
Tomorrow: be creative, be kind, show your love for others. Tonight: show some love for yourself & get some sleep. As I now shall.
‘I could use a quality laugh right now, Dark,’ I said.
‘You too?’
--Infinite Jest
Oh Christ, that sucks. I went to school with him back in the 80s. He helped me get my boyfriend into therapy and on the meds that probably saved boyfriend's life at the time....
David Foster Wallace's suicide note was 350 pages long and will be published in hardcover by Random House.
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