Wednesday, July 07, 2004
(1:38 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
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I think that the fact that my first name begins with "A" has increased The Weblog's traffic by at least 15%, over the hypothetical scenario in which my name was Millard Monfried or something.
Can we agree that when a product can most aptly be described as "cute," it is a complete waste of money? (And that there's at least a 75% chance that the product will not work as advertised?)
Some people criticize my choice of the high-priced Jewel-Osco for my grocery needs. Some claim that Jewel-Osco is an evil corporation that gouges the poor. I take those criticisms very seriously. That doesn't change the fact that Jewel-Osco is on the way home from work, nor that a purely price-effective grocery store strategy (a combination of Ultra Foods and Aldi, I'm told) would require me to drive from one end of town to the other, most likely on weekends or evenings, as opposed to during my lunch hour. I would also, conveniently enough, probably end up buying more on each trip, making it difficult to calculate the supposedly vast "savings" I would be accruing.
I think that my favorite song off A Ghost is Born is "Hummingbird," followed closely by "Company in My Back." I wouldn't know if any of the others are in contention, because those are basically the only two I listen to. I have finally adopted Mike Schaefer's song-by-song technique, as opposed to my previous "purist" approach of listening to the whole album every time.
When people ask me to tell them how I feel, I panic. At some point, I apparently lost direct access to my emotions. I think that writing did that. This weekend I wrote something, not for publication, that captured with vivid accuracy some emotions that (I think, probably) I experienced roughly nine months to a year ago, but that are no longer in effect. So if you want to know how I feel right now, ask me in nine months. ("Your gynecologist doesn't have a test for what I'm pregnant with," to paraphrase Thomas Pynchon.) Then you'll get a "piece of writing" that "works as a piece of writing," whose contents I can disavow as a portrayal of, you know, me.
I have to give credit to Adam Robinson and Monica for jointly coming up with the name "Shit and Garbage Post." I think Shit and Garbage Posts are fine, basically. (If you want something rigorous and insightful from me, check out my review of The Shortest Shadow.)
