Friday, June 16, 2006
(7:29 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Friday Afternoon Confessional: The Thickness of the Schtick
I confess that I am tired of Stephen Colbert. I don't begrudge him his right to earn a living, but that doesn't change the fact that his show is basically doomed to be "Colbert does Colbert" for the rest of its tenure. Whatever happens, though, his performance at the White House correspondents Dinner will have redeemed him.I confess that I find the Brown line to be much more conducive to reading than the Blue line was, probably because it's a longer trip. I confess that I'm occasionally tempted to just sit on the train as it goes around the Loop and comes back, so that I can get some reading done.
I confess that I have entertained the idea of trying to read Ulysses entirely on the toilet. Although I have not given up on that grand ambition, I have now switched to a new plan: reading Empire entirely on the toilet, at Lauren's house. Seemingly ever since she moved into the community where she currently lives, Hardt and Negri have been staring me down in the bathroom. Within the last couple weeks, I've decided to pick it up, and now I'm on approximately page 10. I think this is doable. Maybe it wouldn't "count" since this is a reread, but the first 500 pages of Ulysses would be a reread anyway, probably the third or fourth reread.
I confess that my entire life has gradually become blog-fodder.
