I concur.

Complaint: It totally sucks that pages 17-27 of Infinite Jest (Erdedy waits for pot) are 100 times better than any short story I will ever write, and yet are only 1/100th of the whole.

(from infinite summer community)

in other news, bringing this beast of a book with me to the airport. with notebook. pens. highlighters. bookmarks. (one for footnotes). this man was a genius. why didn't any of my writing profs make me read this masterpiece?

who knew we needed to send the milk carton internationally - leche?

a bit disjointed

so here's the last show from Iraq - GWB stops in for a bit

and, Stephen's free form dancing without TV anchor hair:

Nation

What prompted you to come to Iraq?
Stephen: I wanted a haircut.

TDS/TCR day 3

Look to the left at my twidiot info for the first segment of Jon as Napoleon. I love fake feuds.
Headlines don't sell papers, Newsies sell papers!

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and from Colbert, I'll be so sad when this is over.
Stephen: They can't have alcohol over there. Tom Hanks: Alas.

TCR day 2

can't remember anything all that exciting from TDS except Hodgman quoting the Terminator. in sunglasses. epic.

TCR made me cry, because, he talked to more soldiers. my sister told me she loves Formidable Opponent. that is all.
i can't tell you how excited i am. i'd like to, but it's classified.

TDS/TCR week of love

I am SO glad he brought up CNN and really every news show's proclivity to beg us to go to their website and report news for them. Even the local news does it. "Upload your pictures from the freakish rain we had last night." Um, hey reporter who gets paid to take pictures, yeah, maybe you should do that. I loves me some Andy Coop but he is incessant--live blog during the show? How about you just tell me what you think? I already pay like $60 for cable in order to watch YOUR show so you can TELL me what is going on in the world, not ASK me what is going on in the world. Do your freaking job.

CNN: We're all like, I know.

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And on to ColbertInIraq:
I laughed, I wept, I clapped for our heroes. And there's a news anchor with a buzz cut now.

Support our 135,000 active troops

Hey all,
Stephen Colbert, my favorite faux-pundit, is in Iraq all this week as part of his USO tour, and is filming his show, The Colbert Report, for four days there, to be broadcast on the Comedy Central cable channel at 11:30pm, eastern time, Monday, June 8 - Thursday, June 11, with replays the next night at 8:30pm. For those of you who don't have Tivo, a VCR, or cable, the videos are available the next day online at http://www.colbertnation.com/home under "video clips" or "full episodes". This man is dedicated. He's already agreed to a buzz cut of his wavy news-anchor perfect hair.
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It's go time Nation! "The Colbert Report" has deployed to Iraq on a USO tour entitled "Operation Iraqi Stephen: Going Commando" and will tape and perform shows in front of the troops. "The Colbert Report" is the first TV show in USO history to produce a week of shows in a combat zone. In addition, Colbert will post updates from base on Twitter at http://twitter.com/stephenathome. "The USO counts this as military service, right? I might want to run for office some day," Colbert said.

In addition, he is the guest editor for Newsweek on newsstands today! (Monday, June 8).
http://www.newsweek.com/id/200964
This morning he was on Good Morning America giving us sneak peeks of his work in Iraq as well as information about http://donorschoose.org/
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7781951

Bless you all and send you home safe.