Money Explained

Stand Still Like The Hummingbird by Henry Miller We've all been there. (I hope.) The moment where text is before you and you're not sure what will come of it. So you read on and before you know it, what you read starts to drift off the edge of something and it all becomes a … Continue reading Money Explained →

Circus Drifting

Drift by Rachel Maddow Had an uncle once that ran off to Canada and I don't really know why. I mean, there was nothing romantic or exciting about him running off. But I suspect there was something behind it more than just getting out of dodge. My uncle was the son of a circus worker. … Continue reading Circus Drifting →

Hitched

Hitch 22 - A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens This worst-post is supposed to be an explanation of my experience with Hitch 22. But something happened as I started to write. First. I'm a big Christopher Hitchens fan. I really admire him and his work. Although I've only read five of his books so far, I … Continue reading Hitched →

Marry Me Goat

The Goat or Who Is Sylvia by Edward Albee Wiki about this play. Reading through ballot Question 6 for MD election 2012. The language of it is strange and obviously appeases religious zealots who shouldn't be in govt. in the first place. Personally, they should just get rid of the institution of marriage right after … Continue reading Marry Me Goat →

Happening Here

Subtitle: Well, like, it's Almost Happening Here And Other Thoughts on Sinclair Lewis's Novel. What goes around comes around. Or? That's sometimes how I feel when it comes to reading. Especially since I'm trying and failing to get back to reading all those old authors that I blew off when I was young because, at … Continue reading Happening Here →

Lions And Chick-Lit

The Lion Is In by Delia Ephron This is (probably) my third foray into chick-lit. If it wasn't for the wonders of my second foray into this genre, I never would have trusted Adam Curry after he interviewed Delia Ephron here. The thing is, I dated someone that read a lot of chick lit -- … Continue reading Lions And Chick-Lit →

American Gomorrah

Republican Gomorrah by Max Blumenthal Truth is a bitch. I know for a fact that truth is a bitch. I've faced truth numerous times in my useless-eating life. Truth has beat me to a pulp every fricking time I've faced it. There are also times where I haven't faced truth and I know each one … Continue reading American Gomorrah →

High Finance

Almost a review of three books. Well, not quite almost. Nomatter. Informed about the world of high finance and rob-your-soul banking? Me neither. Every class I ever took that had anything to do with business, economics or numbers, I bagged as soon as I could and went about living life as it should be lived. … Continue reading High Finance →

Lead Shot Frogs

Thoughts: Mark Twain's Short Story Collection What differentiates an artist from mere mortals? There is one thing that working stiffs of this world must never forget above and beyond that fact that they will never get their shit together so as to unite under the auspices of solidarity that they may defeat austerity and hence … Continue reading Lead Shot Frogs →

Hyper Stuff

Travels In Hyperreality by Umberto Eco "Travels in Hyperreality" is a collection of essays by Umberto Eco. I don't know exactly when I first read this book and that's starting to bother me - even though it doesn't matter. Over the years I keep pulling this book from different book shelves where I instinctively know … Continue reading Hyper Stuff →

Boomerang Them Germans

Boomerang by Michael Lewis What is a boomerang and how does it apply to the problems of a world faced with replacing productivity and creativity with speculative finance? Without looking it up on Wiki, I recall a boomerang being a hunting tool. Aborigines used it to stun or deliver a debilitating injury to their prey … Continue reading Boomerang Them Germans →

Hitch And Paine

Thoughts on Christopher Hitchens and Thomas Paine Three Brits did a job on my head. One was a great thinker, one was a great writer and the other didn't bother to tell me, after we had done the dirty deed a whole bunch, that she was married. But I'll get to all that in a … Continue reading Hitch And Paine →

Grifter Nation

Griftopia by Matt Taibbi In The Beginning There are two scams in the 1990 movie The Grifters that reveal everything there is to know about how things work--and not just in America but in the whole western world. The first scam I want to worst-write about this day, dear worst-reader, is actually shown twice in … Continue reading Grifter Nation →

Afraid Of Snail Shells

Prelude: Living in fear is not a natural human condition. That is a comforting thought, eh. The reason it's not natural is because its opposite is universal and interchangeable. But what is the opposite of fear? We have a great capacity to help one another. That too must be a comforting thought. Yet. We do … Continue reading Afraid Of Snail Shells →

Flatroof Expatriates

Ich Will Kein Flachdach Sein by Yassin Nasri As much as I’d like to, there is no way to dramatize my expatriation. Should I try anyway? Ok. The short theatrics to my experience has been simple. Move abroad. Experience lots of bullshit. The end. That’s it. For the past twenty years that’s how I’ve seen … Continue reading Flatroof Expatriates →

Boomer Shame Has No End

The Secret Knowledge by David Mamet It was shocking reading David Mamet's "The Secret Knowledge - On The Dismantling of American Culture". First, I should say this: I'm finding it hard to write anything nice about this book. Seriously. If I start reading something and I feel as though I've committed myself to reading it, … Continue reading Boomer Shame Has No End →

When Bullshit Walks

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson When bullshit walks, dear worstReader… Money talks. Finally finished it. Was it torture? Well… Started reading it but then put it down and realised two weeks later that I'd better get back on it or I'll forget it completely. With that in mind, this book, this biography, can be summed … Continue reading When Bullshit Walks →

Fostering My Wallace

Ever read something and before you get to the third chapter you start saying: Ok... I've had about enough of this. This can happen even though the book or author you're reading is quite popular and making publishers money. And so, you know how it goes, there's a famous author that you just have to … Continue reading Fostering My Wallace →

When War Was Civil

Civil War by J. Caesar Reading the Penguin Classic of Civil War wasn't as trying as I thought it would be. This is actually a pretty good read. Of course, reason for reading it could have something to do with a personal interest in understanding the beginning of the end of great empires and not so … Continue reading When War Was Civil →

Things Not Fought For Anymore

Homage To Catalonia by George Orwell Swiped this book from the shelf of a friend. You know the situation. You go somewhere and you look through the book shelves of others. Every once-a-once you see a book and you say: she's reading this? Why? And then you know, being the reader you are, that it … Continue reading Things Not Fought For Anymore →

Bash This

Dear Hunting With Jesus by Joe Bageant My reading list is long. Bageant's books have been on my list for years and with his passing I feel compelled to move him up a few notches. He's a redneck to steel my heart! Probably no other writer has yet captured the essence of how/why stupid white … Continue reading Bash This →

Rediscover BNW

Brave New World by A. Huxley Even though I'm only scratching the redneck surface of my (in)ability to comprehend the idiocracy that is repub-ism and American't conservatism, it's nice to know that someone already covered it all way back when. Rediscovering Huxley is way cool. "Education for freedom must begin by stating facts and enunciating … Continue reading Rediscover BNW →

Creation vs Creation

Creation by Gore Vidal z'Germanland has a lot of religious holidays. That means they have a lot of extra days-off that coincide with their guaranteed government sponsored vacation days. A lot of these religious days are either on a Thursday or Monday. That means, Das Volk have long since figured out the use of "bridge … Continue reading Creation vs Creation →

Vonnegut On Divorce

A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut Among other thoughts and retrospect, Vonnegut as only Vonnegut can addresses the issue of his patriotism, his inability to be lonely, fame and a few other things that make up the whole idear of being an American writer of cream of the crop greatness. He also tells … Continue reading Vonnegut On Divorce →

Post-It Modernism

Black Spring by Henry Miller "What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature." -From the opening of The Fourteenth Ward. There is no story. There is no character development. There is no mise-en-scene. This is not a novel. What we're dealing with here, dear worst-reader, are ten speck-chapters of … Continue reading Post-It Modernism →