David Foster Wallace on Ambition (animated interview from PBS Digital Studios) There are lots of things that interest me about doing improv, but one of the top is that there’s no time when you’re performing improv that you can perfect anything. The scene you are making exists, and then it’s gone — it exists perhaps …
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Is no problem. You are funny thing.
David Foster Wallace keeps coming up in my life recently. Not in person of course, just references to him. Here’s a video of him reading excerpts from two essays, "Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All" and "A Supposedly Fun This I’ll Never Do Again." It’s a long video (27 minutes), …
Unfinished
Red Books, originally uploaded by PPDIGITAL. Infinite Jest is one of my favorite novels. I think of characters and scenes and themes from it nearly every day. But it took me several attempts to read it. I’d get to about page 68, the middle of which reads like this: YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT …