hey sports fans. you'll never guess what i did today.... you ready? i worked!
that's right! five hours of my nose to the grindstone. and by nose to the grindstone, i do indeed mean ass to the chair. my job today was to "supervise" the palega recreation center in the portola district of san francisco (different from portola street), which meant i sat around, handing out basketballs and answering the phone to tell people the hours of the gymnasium. i'm having a hard time thinking of other jobs that were this easy, but i'm pretty sure this is the most i've gotten paid for the least amount of work. it's difficult to tell.
so basically, what i did was finish extremely loud and incredibly close by jonathan safran foër. is there an umlaut there? if there isn't, there should be. i have mixed feelings about the book, though it probably ranks pretty high on my list of "things about 9/11." there are very few things that rank in the positive section of the list, though, to be fair, i haven't seenunited 93 and i certainly don't plan to seeworld trade center. i feel funny about saying that it's too soon, but part of me feels that that's true.
as far as foer's book goes (too lazy for umlaut), i don't think it was too soon; my problems with the book are vaguely more general, and are fairly similar to my problems with everything is illuminated, his first book. he does a flashback thing in both books where he ties in things that have happened in europe a long time ago... he's got a bit of a wwii fixation (is that gauche to say? i hope not), and maybe this is my normal jewalert going, but... BEEEP BEEEP BEEEP. the best part about foer's book is the main character, oskar, who is a ten year old (i think) who's father was killed in the wtc attack. there's something wonderfully humble about that... the only way were prepared to look at 9/11 right now is through the eyes of a child. yes. right on.
anyway, i'm running out of room on the screen here, so the last part i'm typing blind. the best piece of anything i've ever seen done on september 11th is the nova special "why the towers fell," originally broadcast in april of 2002. nova, of course, is a science show, and it very judiciously and carefully explains the sequence of events on a scientific level, which i found extremely comforting (okay, i know that sounds weird... but there's something to be said for science's methodology, and the fact that once nova explained how the towers fell, methodology and 9/11 never occurred in the same paragraph ever again).
all right, well, i'm done. hasta mañana.
that's right! five hours of my nose to the grindstone. and by nose to the grindstone, i do indeed mean ass to the chair. my job today was to "supervise" the palega recreation center in the portola district of san francisco (different from portola street), which meant i sat around, handing out basketballs and answering the phone to tell people the hours of the gymnasium. i'm having a hard time thinking of other jobs that were this easy, but i'm pretty sure this is the most i've gotten paid for the least amount of work. it's difficult to tell.
so basically, what i did was finish extremely loud and incredibly close by jonathan safran foër. is there an umlaut there? if there isn't, there should be. i have mixed feelings about the book, though it probably ranks pretty high on my list of "things about 9/11." there are very few things that rank in the positive section of the list, though, to be fair, i haven't seenunited 93 and i certainly don't plan to seeworld trade center. i feel funny about saying that it's too soon, but part of me feels that that's true.
as far as foer's book goes (too lazy for umlaut), i don't think it was too soon; my problems with the book are vaguely more general, and are fairly similar to my problems with everything is illuminated, his first book. he does a flashback thing in both books where he ties in things that have happened in europe a long time ago... he's got a bit of a wwii fixation (is that gauche to say? i hope not), and maybe this is my normal jewalert going, but... BEEEP BEEEP BEEEP. the best part about foer's book is the main character, oskar, who is a ten year old (i think) who's father was killed in the wtc attack. there's something wonderfully humble about that... the only way were prepared to look at 9/11 right now is through the eyes of a child. yes. right on.
anyway, i'm running out of room on the screen here, so the last part i'm typing blind. the best piece of anything i've ever seen done on september 11th is the nova special "why the towers fell," originally broadcast in april of 2002. nova, of course, is a science show, and it very judiciously and carefully explains the sequence of events on a scientific level, which i found extremely comforting (okay, i know that sounds weird... but there's something to be said for science's methodology, and the fact that once nova explained how the towers fell, methodology and 9/11 never occurred in the same paragraph ever again).
all right, well, i'm done. hasta mañana.
posted by Charlie Beckerman at 00:08
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