Catacombs

Looking for that Paglia Wednesday, I found the above on my bookshelf right next to it.

I remember really liking Norfolk's Lempriere's Dictionary (though a friend told me I had read the American version, not the British, which whatever) and bought Pope's Rhinoceros as soon as it came out in paper and was disappointed but was never sure if I was more disappointed by the book or my reading of it. I read In the Shape of a Boar when it came out in 2000 to girded anti-anticlimax disappointment, well placed, and forgot about Norfolk. As far as I can tell, he hasn't written anything since.

I remember damn little about any of the three, it'd take me 75 pages of each for those memory files to be accessed, but I do remember there was a huge buzz about Norfolk in all those little places where said buzz is all important. Buzz comes and goes.

Found this too:

I remember being horribly disappointed when I read the Reinhart Quartet, which I read in the glow of my admiration for Little Big Man - essential reading - which astonished me, it's on my short playlist of books when I air-novel. (I used to be such a puritan, not only did I hold myself morally obliged to finish any novel I started, I held myself morally obliged to finish any octology I started.)

Berger is good. Just skip Reinhart.

Found this too.

Corpses everywhere.

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• The most important thing you'll read today, Stiglitz on the history of the clusterfuck.

 

The truth is most of the individual mistakes boil down to just one: a belief that markets are self-adjusting and that the role of government should be minimal. Looking back at that belief during hearings this fall on Capitol Hill, Alan Greenspan said out loud, “I have found a flaw.” Congressman Henry Waxman pushed him, responding, “In other words, you found that your view of the world, your ideology, was not right; it was not working.” “Absolutely, precisely,” Greenspan said.

• America concedes.
• The next eight years of your life.
• The next eight years of your life.
  
• Vote against a bill to bailout Detroit Michigan because as written it didn't fuck the union hard enough, fast enough? Blago! Regardless what I think about Barack Obama's fucktardish refusal to implement and enforce my moral prerogatives (you know, once he's actually president), he is so going to kick the pig-right's asses up and down, top to bottom, left to right.
• The most disingenuous (to use a kind word) sentence you'll read today: Potomac residents have joined in the chorus of growing opposition, raising concerns that the massive scale of the development will clog roads and affect the suburban quality of the area.Your mailing address will say Gaithersmwhahaburg.
• Purple Line.
• White's Ferry boo-boo!
• Free State Politics going on hiatus. Reminds me I need to rearrange by blegsuck drawers, hEh.
• Don't forget The Millions Year in Reading series continues.
• As does Zappadan.
• School of Seven Bells!
• Onions' top 30's #1 is my #1 too, with streaming songs. Their #2's spot-on too.
• Guardian's top 10's  #1 is my #1 too.
• Pitchfork's reader poll has my #1 their #1 too.
  
• The Rumpus?

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Album of the Year.