Thursday, August 9, 2007

Morning Update IV

Gravity's Rainbow, selections from pages 60, 61, and 71:

These changes on the text "You never did the Kenosha Kid" are occupying Slothrop's mind...
- Thomas Pynchon [italics mine]

[2]
Old veteran hoofer: Bet you never did the "Kenosha," kid!
[2.1]
O.V.H.: Bet you never did the "Kenosha Kid."
[3]
Superior (haughtily): You! never did the Kenosha Kid think for one instant that you...
[3.1]
Superior (incredulously): You? Never! Did the Kenosha Kid think for one instant that you . . . ?
[4]
the meek voice of little Tyrone Slothrop, celebrated over after in tradition and song, ventured to filter upward to the Kid's attention: "You never did 'the,' Kenosha Kid!"
[5]
Maybe you did fool the Philadelphia, rag the Rochester, josh the Joliet. But you never did the Kenosha kid.
[6]
Oh-oh. Wait. What's this, Slothrop? You never did the Kenosha kid. Snap to, Slothrop.
[7]
Slothrop: Where is he? Why didn't he show? Who are you?
Voice: The Kid got busted. And you know me, Slothrop. Remember? I'm Never.
Slothrop (peering): You, Never? (A pause.) Did the Kenosha Kid?

On the suggestion of my friend A___, I've been checking out the blog ENERGYDRINKSBLOG!?!1/?11 [sic]. There is, as you can imagine from the title a lot of YELLING. This is understandable as the writer is apparently hopped up on energy drinks at all THE TIME. He seems to have trouble controlling THE VOLUME OF HIS TEXT. At any rate, there is a lot of useful information about energy drinks, the best kinds, the ones that make your breath smell, etc. As for me, I'll stick to coffee. I guess it's comforting to know that someone is willing to subject themselves to every form of energy drink under the sun and is thus able to provide useful information like this:

the effects of energydrinks and over-the-counter painkillers multiply each other: my mood was SO GOOD and my feet felt like i was wearing new balance 991's with hiking socks, hopping around and not really minding the chair compressing my spine. also i skipped dinner which felt great because the advils really heightened the usual appetite-suppressing effects of the edrinks!

so if you're ever in any sort of pain or you get down on yrself, maybe because you look in the mirror and all you see is a big fatbody or you just got a shit haircut, drink energydrinks and heedlessly eat advils until you feel great. IT'S NOT DRUGS IF YR PARENTS WOULD/DID BUY IT FOR YOU. or also if you hear about how 35 lbs of weight loss = 1 inch of penis growth and you wanna lose some of that jelly, this combo will work too. [I'm just going to put a big old "sic" after this entire quote]

In all honesty, I found this blog amusing to the point that I will be a repeat visitor, and, it did make me strongly consider actually buying energy drinks and OTC painkillers. Somehow, I don't think my sponsor would approve (ha. ha.)... I'm not going to blogroll this one, simply note that I've visited it, enjoyed it, and move on.

Over at This Has Happened Before, part two of the awesome pictures from yesterday are up (I wrote about this, here), plus he said nice things about me, here, and believe you me, I'm a huge sucker for that. Once again I won't scoop his pictures, even though I want to; you'll just have to head over and check them out yourselves.

I'd like to come back and say something else about the crazed energy drink review site. It makes me want to slam them until I'm fucked up on caffeine. Not so healthy, but it speaks well of the site.

Lastly, I'd like to say that this is the third day in a row that I've spilled hot coffee one myself. That is all.