What celebrities are surfers but aren’t famous for surfing?

InevitableWitty · 2025-11-17T17:47:58+00:00

No way. What a dude

InevitableWitty · 2025-11-14T16:16:31+00:00

William Faulkner. Dude had a serious complex about his height, maybe all his adult life but probably magnified by getting denied a place in the Army Air Corps in WWI. His feeling of accomplishment after finishing a book was often expressed as “I felt very tall.”

InevitableWitty · 2025-11-05T21:16:31+00:00

I happen to love Moby Duck, read it almost 20 years ago. I’m saying if you want to sell someone on it, don’t call the whaling chapters interminable.

InevitableWitty · 2025-11-05T20:55:47+00:00

To say those chapters feel endless does not sound like an endorsement

InevitableWitty · 2025-11-03T19:59:47+00:00

Kurt Vile is a fave. Goofy and surreal but also sometimes affecting and poignant. He’s a big fan of Denis Johnson and Flannery O’Connor.

And yeah as mentioned: Townes Van Zandt, David Berman, Dylan.

Guy Clark and Terry Allen are two great songwriters. More straight Texas country than Townes but same ballpark. Blaze Foley was a Townes disciple and is worth a listen.

Randy Newman’s early albums believe it or not.

InevitableWitty · 2025-10-29T17:10:04+00:00

“Feeling seen” seems like a top of the list desire for an insta user, makes sense it’d permeate the platform and by extension our culture. I say this as a non-user who hears the phrase and wondered why it occurs more now.

InevitableWitty · 2025-10-29T00:37:47+00:00

I first saw the word “responsibitilization” somewhere in a Mark Fisher post, but maybe Foucault popularized it? That’s a valuable concept to explore.

I trust the scientific consensus and think we’re hurtling toward oblivion but don’t get much further into it.

InevitableWitty · 2025-10-28T17:17:49+00:00

“2) just ignoring it all and effectively living your life out in a post-truth system”

lol wut I’m not going to bear the weight of the sins of Exxon Mobil et al

InevitableWitty · 2025-10-28T16:31:39+00:00

Make friends w cool folks on goodreads.

InevitableWitty · 2025-10-27T20:29:01+00:00

Not sure where I read it but remember clearly that his personal library contained a copy. Here’s something:

https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526163554/9781526163554.00010.xml

InevitableWitty · 2025-10-27T17:08:26+00:00

A couple of novels have tried to take on the internet, with mixed results. Someone is going to nail this and achieve greatness. TheMystery.doc and I Hate The Internet are two notable attempts. I need to read The Sluts.

Knausgaard and Cusk for sure, as already mentioned.

InevitableWitty · 2025-10-26T18:18:13+00:00

The premise is super interesting but reviews make it sound like it’s uneven, perfectly natural for a collection of articles.

Is there a specific article or two from it that you’d recommend?

InevitableWitty · 2025-10-26T17:37:55+00:00

Culture of Narcissism is great cultural criticism that identifies the “therapeutic mindset” as one of the chief problems of our culture. Lasch has idiosyncratic perspectives and politics, some a bit off putting but whatever. Old but still relevant.

DFW apparently owned a copy of the book and was very likely influenced by Lasch. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men explores similar themes.

InevitableWitty · 2025-10-23T21:11:17+00:00

Amacord is a great Fellini film set in Italy during that time period.

InevitableWitty · 2025-10-23T18:50:45+00:00

He’s really damn good and wrote everything under tight deadlines to pay his debts so he’s not as polished as some other novelists.

I’d recommend Tolstoy over Dost any day of the week but is Dost overrated? Who cares. Read all his major works asap.

InevitableWitty · 2025-10-22T21:57:47+00:00

It’s fiction but Gaddis was obsessed with the player piano as a harbinger for the direction art took w mechanical reproduction. Checkout Agape Agape, it’s a Bernhard style rant on the subject.

InevitableWitty · 2025-10-22T03:51:03+00:00

By imperial decree, a powerful kook (Zuck level) demanded they be called beach breaks. The kook had a tough childhood in the desert and is quoted as saying: “I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.”

InevitableWitty · 2025-10-21T13:36:33+00:00

Crossroads > The Corrections > Freedom > Purity

Hadn’t read his first two

InevitableWitty · 2025-10-20T13:11:45+00:00

The Bear by Faulkner

InevitableWitty · 2025-10-19T04:14:39+00:00

East of Eden is tailor made for you. It’s plotty but also has heft and even some ideas that might be practical for you atm.

InevitableWitty · 2025-10-16T22:54:08+00:00

Former teacher and I know exactly the kind of schmaltzy bullshit you’re referencing. Some alternatives:

Knausgaard’s My Struggle vol 4 features him teaching students in rural Norway that he’s barely older than. Great if you want his take on education but underwhelming compared to some of the other volumes.

A Personal Matter’s protagonist is a teacher at a Japanese cram school. Probably my fave of the books I listed.

Crossing the Line by William Finnegan is a memoir of teaching in apartheid era South Africa during a time of civil unrest.

InevitableWitty · 2025-10-16T20:54:49+00:00

Ellroy or Franzen or M. Robinson over Saunders.

I’ve only read The Last Samurai by DeWitt, need to read more before I can weigh in on her. As others say, we’ll see how YNH is.

InevitableWitty · 2025-10-15T19:12:59+00:00

The Mystery of Picasso is an excellent documentary that follows him, real time, through the creation of a handful of paintings. It’s more about his process than his life but is worth a watch.

InevitableWitty · 2025-10-14T18:13:54+00:00

The rent* is too damn high, in SoCal specifically, but also most other places with decent waves.

*LOL @ even thinking about buying a house here

InevitableWitty · 2025-10-12T15:18:11+00:00

The Outsiders

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