Comments on: Poolside Book Review: McSweeney’s 19 http://iwannaspankjenniferlovehewitt.com/archives/107 rock on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:47:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Emaciated http://iwannaspankjenniferlovehewitt.com/archives/107/comment-page-1#comment-63 Emaciated Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://iwannaspankjenniferlovehewitt.com/?p=107#comment-63 I spent some of my new found disposable income on a McSweeney's subscription this year. I received my cigar box a couple weeks ago and found the assorted knick-knacks fun enough. I took this to be simulating the experience of finding long-forgotten junk in the attic of your grandma's house and sifting through it. To paraphrase Bart Simpson from that episode where he writes his name in wet cement, items that seemed mundane 80 years ago are fascinating to us. The artifacts take on greater meaning in light of events which they predated (and where therefore unaffected by.) Except of course, this was all fake. Anyway I found it cute enough. I have gone through the first quarter or so of the stories and haven't been blown away. The quality of the stories so far is lower than that of the few I've read in The Better of McSweeney's collection (free with my subscription, like a football phone.) Although that first one about a murderous retard in 19th century Louisianna isn't bad. And Dave Eggers really has his hands full raising his younger brother, so your subscription is really a bit like charity. Also it is raining like a mother fucker up here. It is a good thing that I live on the high ground because the Merrimack River is swelled and washing out the lowlanders. Also, according to The New York Times, my town's main sewage line has collapsed. I don't really know what this means, but it seems like I should probably go out to the store and buy some bottled water. Except it is so yucky outside, and I don't want everyone to look at me and think "there goes one of those paranoid horders. I bet he purchased several pressurized drums of Mountain Dew in preparation for Y2K." I'm going to stick because in any case I have a couple 1 liter bottles of Zazz brand lemon-lime seltzer in the fridge. I spent some of my new found disposable income on a McSweeney’s subscription this year. I received my cigar box a couple weeks ago and found the assorted knick-knacks fun enough. I took this to be simulating the experience of finding long-forgotten junk in the attic of your grandma’s house and sifting through it. To paraphrase Bart Simpson from that episode where he writes his name in wet cement, items that seemed mundane 80 years ago are fascinating to us. The artifacts take on greater meaning in light of events which they predated (and where therefore unaffected by.) Except of course, this was all fake. Anyway I found it cute enough. I have gone through the first quarter or so of the stories and haven’t been blown away. The quality of the stories so far is lower than that of the few I’ve read in The Better of McSweeney’s collection (free with my subscription, like a football phone.) Although that first one about a murderous retard in 19th century Louisianna isn’t bad. And Dave Eggers really has his hands full raising his younger brother, so your subscription is really a bit like charity.

Also it is raining like a mother fucker up here. It is a good thing that I live on the high ground because the Merrimack River is swelled and washing out the lowlanders. Also, according to The New York Times, my town’s main sewage line has collapsed. I don’t really know what this means, but it seems like I should probably go out to the store and buy some bottled water. Except it is so yucky outside, and I don’t want everyone to look at me and think “there goes one of those paranoid horders. I bet he purchased several pressurized drums of Mountain Dew in preparation for Y2K.” I’m going to stick because in any case I have a couple 1 liter bottles of Zazz brand lemon-lime seltzer in the fridge.

]]> By: shawn http://iwannaspankjenniferlovehewitt.com/archives/107/comment-page-1#comment-64 shawn Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://iwannaspankjenniferlovehewitt.com/?p=107#comment-64 Seltzer is for spraying, not for drinking. If you drink it all, how will you play wacky pranks? And don't buy bottled water. That's a waste of money, as hoarding purposes go. Buy the gallon (or even five gallon, if available) jugs of water . It should be much, much cheaper and since you'd be using it for home purposes, not on-the-go drinking, it's far less waste. This is, of course, assuming you have clean drinking glasses. I hope weren't planning to drink that seltzer straight out of the bottle. Seltzer is for spraying, not for drinking. If you drink it all, how will you play wacky pranks? And don’t buy bottled water. That’s a waste of money, as hoarding purposes go. Buy the gallon (or even five gallon, if available) jugs of water . It should be much, much cheaper and since you’d be using it for home purposes, not on-the-go drinking, it’s far less waste. This is, of course, assuming you have clean drinking glasses. I hope weren’t planning to drink that seltzer straight out of the bottle.

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