paulina banina

May 11

pooryorickentertainment:

Design by Chris Ayers
I wonder what a casual, uninitiated viewer would make of this. I imagine it would probably be incomprehensible.What I would give to be able to read Infinite Jest’s Eschaton chapter again for the first time. I distinctly remember being in a restaurant when I read it because the other patrons kept looking at me as I tried unsuccessfully to stifle laughter.I used Sam Potts’ character map of Infinite Jest as a starting point and then expanded upon it. This isn’t meant to be a comprehensive play-by-play; I only listed the main events that lead to the scuffle at the end of the chapter. When it is clear that a particular player launched a warhead I have tried to indicate that. Otherwise the vectors come from the state. It is not clear exactly how many players participated in this game, but it is at least nine and not more than twelve. Eight of them are named and the player representing REDCHI is not named.
This is a first draft and I realize that there may be mistakes. My head hurts too much to think about it right now, but if you have suggestions of corrections please let me know.The Tumblr version is somewhat hard to read, so you can download a high resolution version below:
Download hi-res version.

Design by Chris Ayers

I wonder what a casual, uninitiated viewer would make of this. I imagine it would probably be incomprehensible.What I would give to be able to read Infinite Jest’s Eschaton chapter again for the first time. I distinctly remember being in a restaurant when I read it because the other patrons kept looking at me as I tried unsuccessfully to stifle laughter.

I used Sam Potts’ character map of Infinite Jest as a starting point and then expanded upon it. This isn’t meant to be a comprehensive play-by-play; I only listed the main events that lead to the scuffle at the end of the chapter. When it is clear that a particular player launched a warhead I have tried to indicate that. Otherwise the vectors come from the state. It is not clear exactly how many players participated in this game, but it is at least nine and not more than twelve. Eight of them are named and the player representing REDCHI is not named.

This is a first draft and I realize that there may be mistakes. My head hurts too much to think about it right now, but if you have suggestions of corrections please let me know.

The Tumblr version is somewhat hard to read, so you can download a high resolution version below:

Download hi-res version.

May 9

We’re Having a 100 Year Birthday Party for My Grandpa’s Ghost in Holland

11 AM: Meet at the Boy Scout building in deep Catholic potato farm country. Cousin Frank is head of the Boy Scouts and has gotten us the exclusive hookup. BYO snacks: suggestions include “pastry or cake or a sausage sandwich.” One of these is not like the.. oh, forget about it.

1:30 PM: Tour of the tractor museum (“het trekkermuseum”) in Nisse. This will probably be the only museum you visit on your Summer Euro Trip, because you are a bad person.

3:00 PM: Wander the town of Nisse with your 38 other cousins, aunts, and uncles. “Nisse is the smallest town in the municipality,” the email states. Count me IN.

4:00 PM: Back to the Boy Scout building for beer and a family trivia game, entirely in Dutch. This is no time to be a sore loser so put that competitive streak in the roomy chest pocket of your overalls.

6:00 PM: BYO dinner: suggestions include “salad, quiche, wraps, soup, pancakes.”

May 7

Miss Marblemouth assures herself

It’s never too late to learn that zenith and nadir are opposites, not synonyms! Not even now!

May 6

Sexpigeon has been sexpigeoned. Except not because I was very obvious about it; everyone in the aisle saw me do this.

Nothing like delaying a red eye flight four hours but like I can’t be bothered with a whole bar of chocolate and Boyz II Men playlist.

Lady sat next to me in the airport, ate a corndog, then wrote furiously in her notebook for five minutes and proceeded to read aloud her story about the experience of eating one’s first corndog at age 66 in a dramatic voice to nobody in particular (she turned her back to me so I think I was supposed to feel excluded.)

Apr 26

“She Certainly Did Not Go Gently Into That Good Night”

A series of vignettes about my responses to rejection

Apr 11

My Favorite Articles Of Clothing Ladies Wear When It Gets Warm Out

mattpowers:

1. Open-toed sandwiches

2. Plunging neck vines

3. Tube taupes

4. A single contact lens

5. Large cowhide and denim work gloves

6. Strappy eels

7. Rare, long-since out of production skirt that I saw once in what I can’t be certain wasn’t a dream

8. Bermuda onesies

9. Thin sheens of skim milk

10. Louses

Apr 9

Korporate Kulture

“I thought your joke about the project being emotionally unfulfilling was really funny, but I have to caution you as a ’development point’ and as your manager that you shouldn’t make that joke around anyone else. Some people don’t leave any Kool-Aid in the bottom of the cup.”
“Jean-Claude’s staying in Brazil… it’s got something to do with the legal tenets of his divorce from shirts.”
“That free Crumbs cupcake coupon sped around the office faster than meningitis in a college dorm room.”

Apr 2

Correlation ain’t causation but I am observing some interesting parallel trends between “days I work from home and don’t go outside at all, not once” and “Elegant Evenings of Kitty Photoshoots”