Reads like good Charles Bernstein to me! The New York school has a new member.

DFW (whom I do not adore, but anyway) apparently disliked poetry and felt guilty about it. On a ride from SF to LA my brightest literary friend and I defended the medium right up until our first drink in Silver Lake, whereupon she said, “Poetry’s gay.”

(She’s not a self-hating lesbian; she just loves lit.)

We agree it…

Friend from Milton knew her from BB&N, always said she’s a racist jerk. I can’t watch her show for the anti-Muslim jokes alone, it’s like trying to watch Die Meistersinger.

It remains Fincher’s best film.

I agree. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a business built around the engagement of sexual relations in exchange for benefit. Where I draw the line is someone having sexual activity with another person (or persons) for compensation - whether it be money or some type of valuable goods.

It’s not just common sense.…

True. True.

Obviously you’ve never been to Pepe’s, I think the best crust I’ve ever had in the US. Modern Apizza on State is good too.

You’re probably about to hear quite a bit about them. New Haven’s got a big Italian-American community from the Amalfi Coast, just north of Naples.

I must admit, part of me is still oddly furious that out of all my academic friends (which are legion, I have a humanities phd), who have pretty much all made their careers on stuff like [Com]Migrant Formalities: Post-Colonial Aesthetics in Kipling, Strauss and Ray, didn’t have time to actually go to Film Forum to see…

Besides the corgis?

Money money money money money money money money. Which covers everything anybody else has mentioned (shitty music [it’s cheaper], douchey bros [they’re richer], overpriced drinks, splitting a check [money], sleeping late [time is money], keeping up with new music [marketing => peer pressure => consumerism], hearing…