Tuesday, August 07, 2001

Marc

Nephi, Utah
This is the kind of place that doesn't seem to air Simpson's episodes at 5:00, or 5:30, or 6:00, or probably even 6:30. Dicks. I'm at a lovely new Motel 6, right off the interstate, and I have decided that I will try to complete Infinite Jest by the end of next week. By all probable calculations, I've got about 360 pages to go. Not bad considering I'm on pg.621 and still absolutely clueless as to how this is all going to turn out.

"The worst-feeling thing that happened today was at lunch when Michael Pemulis told Mario he had an idea for setting up a Dial-A-Prayer telephone service for atheists in which the atheist dials the number and the line just rings and rings and no one answers." - I.J., pg. 592

Sat in a Subway for lunch today, and as I was leaving, I noticed the guy waiting to throw away his trash was wearing a Blimpie's workshirt (complete with nametag). Struck me as kind of strange. Kind of like working at Taco John's and eating lunch at Taco Bell. Or like doing the nighttime broadcast for FoxSportsNet and then hanging out over at ESPN all the damn time. Fucking Dan Patrick.

Zach! Just got my first "kicking-your-ass-offline because you're inactive" signal ... ever. Crazy.

Wish I had more to say, but I won't bore you with more details of my hideously and improbably deformed toe(s). A'ight?