Dangerous, Dirty, and Unfun

Congratulations to Derek Jeter, America’s Greatest Hero, who just surpassed Lou Gehrig as the all-time Yankees hits leader. I’m a little amazed that for all the great hitters the Yankees have had on their team (I’ll spare you the litany), the franchise hits record stood for more than 70 years. Incredible!

So my Infinite Summer is over. I just finished Infinite Jest, and boy, am I spent. I finished a few days ahead of the Infinite Summer schedule, so out of respect for the process, I’m not going to comment on the book until the 21st. Which should give me enough time to digest things. I’ll have a series of IJ posts, so like, feel free to skip them if you have no interest in my commentary. If you might be interested, though, I recommend you read this David Foster Wallace post-mortem that ran in the New Yorker earlier in the year. It’ll help.

For those of you keeping score at home, former South American military dictatorship Uruguay just edged out the 27th state in the Union in the “Extending No-Brainer Civil Rights / Doing Right by Orphans” race.

Readers have informed me that there’s not enough weird 80s synth-rock videos on Dangerous, Dirty, and Unfun. So listen to a little New Order.

Where's the train tracks?

This man wants to sell your grandmother a life insurance policy.