This week in pointless trivia.

[Robin Landseadel]

I must confess to having the damnedest time getting into "Bleeding  
Edge." I'm 1/2 way through, FWIW.

If ever there was a time in which my day to day activities entailed  
"Hysterical Realism", that would be this week.

Consider "The Wizard of Oz in 3D." Yup, saw it this week and I'm here  
to tell you we're not in Kansas anymore. What I would give for a  
Thomas Pynchon critique of the restoration of Victor Fleming's 1939  
classic. Understand that this film was restored as old masters are  
restored—at a certain point the restoration exceeds what was possible  
at the time the artwork was first conceived. I noticed this in  
particular as the lights reflecting off of various scrying crystals in  
WoOz have some of the most impressive 3D effects in this restoration,  
forcing one to gaze into these crystals. Editorial intervention I say,  
but also resulting in an unexpectedly intense emotional pay-off for  
the film. Seen it at least 60 times before, mostly on the tube,  
naturally. But let's face it, this is one of the great American Myths.  
It functions as a collective myth on some deep level, particularly for  
the preterite. When my mother was growing up on a chicken ranch in the  
30's and 40's, this was her myth of escape, her notion of a way out  
being that of the Hippie. But I digress . . .

As far as I'm concerned, GR gets real interesting just after we read 
—"Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore . . ."

Though, truth to tell, the young Ms. Garland says "I've".

Otherwise, I'm painting Yantras.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=621798131205781&set=a.262126650506266.79156.100001267982193&type=3&theater

And then there's this puppet show in Washington D.C. that we're all  
being forced to attend.

BE creeps along at about ten pages a night, blurring into images and  
dialog from "Castle" that blur into "Seinfeld" episodes as I fall  
asleep.

"Hey man—when does this shit kick in?"-
Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l