Isn't James Franco amazing? He's in something like four different degree programs and he's hosting the Oscars and he played Allen Ginsburg (pretty well, actually) and he does weird art videos, etc, etc, etc.
Well, you know who's more amazing? BILL M****RF***IN' MURRAY, that's who.
So Franco's way into poetry. Well, so is Murray.
Franco was on a soap opera. Bill Murray signed on to be the voice of goddamn Garfield because he thought the script was by Joel Coen! (Turns out it was Joel Cohen.)
And let me ask you this:
When was the last time you heard about James Franco winning a major professional golf tournament, LIKE BILL MURRAY JUST DID?!?!?!?
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Sunday, February 13, 2011
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Two Things Found In Barthelme's 40 Stories
1.
Not long after reading this 2001 Harper's piece attempting (in a half-serious, half-fanciful way) to link Donald Barthelme with the Dan Rather "Kenneth, what is the frequency?" incident using "clues" from Barthelme's stories (and some biographical overlap between Barthelme and Rather), I came across something that I couldn't believe Paul Limbert Allman, the author of the piece, had missed. Allman mentions the famous "Courage" signoff that Rather adopted for a brief period in September 1986, a few weeks before the "Frequency" incident, but doesn't cite this passage from Barthelme's "The Catechist":
He reads: "A disappointing experience: the inadequacy of language to express thought. But let the catechist take courage." He closes the book.
I think: courage.
The inadequacy of language to express thought. If, in fact, Rather's attackers were attempting to convey a message to him in some kind of Barthelme code, perhaps Rather's "Courage" served as a (unintentional?) "trigger word". Wheels within wheels...
2.
In the story "110 West Sixty-first Street", there is a black man named Tiger who only sleeps with white women.
Not long after reading this 2001 Harper's piece attempting (in a half-serious, half-fanciful way) to link Donald Barthelme with the Dan Rather "Kenneth, what is the frequency?" incident using "clues" from Barthelme's stories (and some biographical overlap between Barthelme and Rather), I came across something that I couldn't believe Paul Limbert Allman, the author of the piece, had missed. Allman mentions the famous "Courage" signoff that Rather adopted for a brief period in September 1986, a few weeks before the "Frequency" incident, but doesn't cite this passage from Barthelme's "The Catechist":
He reads: "A disappointing experience: the inadequacy of language to express thought. But let the catechist take courage." He closes the book.
I think: courage.
The inadequacy of language to express thought. If, in fact, Rather's attackers were attempting to convey a message to him in some kind of Barthelme code, perhaps Rather's "Courage" served as a (unintentional?) "trigger word". Wheels within wheels...
2.
In the story "110 West Sixty-first Street", there is a black man named Tiger who only sleeps with white women.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Two Things I Enjoyed From The Final Round Of The Masters
Besides the exciting golf action (really, it was):
1. Anthony Kim's belt buckle
2. Nick Faldo's use (coinage?) of the term "synchro-destiny" to describe a piece of pine detritus falling into the path of Phil Mickelson's putted ball and sending it offline
1. Anthony Kim's belt buckle
2. Nick Faldo's use (coinage?) of the term "synchro-destiny" to describe a piece of pine detritus falling into the path of Phil Mickelson's putted ball and sending it offline
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