Here’s one thing I didn’t know last week: Thomas Pynchon’s niece is a porn star.
Day: October 1, 2006
Bill Buford in The New Yorker:
Never in our history as a species have we been so ignorant about our food. And it is revealing about our culture that, in the face of such widespread ignorance about a human being’s most essential function—the ability to feed itself—there is now a network broadcasting into ninety million American homes, entertaining people with shows about making coleslaw.
I highly recommend Buford’s recent book, Heat, by the way.
From an interview with Wanda Sykes in this month’s Believer:
WS: I know that whole “sassy” thing still bugs me.
BLVR: It’s such an easy tag.
WS: Not only that, but I don’t like to be called anything gender-specific. You don’t call a man that. You know? If I did Shakespeare one day, I’d still get “sassy.” “Sassy Ophelia!”
Eddie Murphy used to be funny, right? Just checking.