Thanks for the bookmark, Jim

This is the fanciest bookmark I've ever owned. I was using a sticky and a business card to keep track of front and rear places in the book -- now I'll try using just this one. Thank you, Jim, for sending it across the country.

I still have not completed a single week's worth of reading according to the infinitesummer.org reading schedule. I'm on page 65. Last night I read the full footnote about Orin Incandenza's life's work in film. Every time I see Year of the Whopper, it cracks me up. Buried in there are four attempts to create Infinite Jest, and all are incomplete, lost and unseen. What does that mean?

An old colleague of mine from the University of Miami wrote this book called Understanding David Foster Wallace. I noticed on Amazon that it's being re-released at the end of this month--I wonder how much Matthew Baldwin's project had to do with that. Anyway, his Alternative Atlanta is a decent book. Not good enough to get me to buy his other one, but a fun read.