Pynchon and postal regulation

[John Bailey]

Must have gone up in the past few weeks. I'm in Australia but can
probably work out some way around the geoblocking. Thanks!

On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 9:46 AM, jesse gooch <jlguuch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fun stuff Richard. Hope you get your stuff soon.
>
> John - Not sure where you are, and that has an effect on what’s available, but MD is on Netflix in the states.
>
>
>> On Jul 5, 2017, at 7:32 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I live in a migrant/refugee hub where almost 50% speak English as a
>> second language, so the library isn't really geared towards arthouse
>> US films that nobody understood first time around. Good to see that
>> public libraries seem to made it through the storm of privatisation
>> and internetting in a lot of areas, though. Yours always sounds like a
>> first-rate place.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 9:21 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What about your public library?
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 5:59 PM John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Good read, Richard, and I laughed out loud a few times. Really gets to
>>>> the ambiguities in P's novels regarding things like W.A.S.T.E. and
>>>> whether we're supposed to buy into its libertarian ideals, or whether
>>>> it's just another dream to be hijacked by the bad Vibes of late
>>>> capitalism.
>>>> On a similar note to your postal purgatory, I spent a good part of a
>>>> recent day trying to find a way to legally watch Lynch's Mulholland
>>>> Drive. It's not on any streaming services, I can't buy it from
>>>> Amazon/iTunes/etc in my country, shops are only stocking recent
>>>> blockbusters, and there are no video libraries left. The only option
>>>> is to pay $30 for a second-hand copy and wait a few weeks for it to
>>>> arrive. W, as they say, TF. I used to be able to walk out the door and
>>>> have a rental copy in my hand within minutes for the price of a
>>>> coffee. I thought everything was supposed to be so much more
>>>> convenient now?
>>>> Of course there's always the pirated download route, but that's hardly
>>>> proof that the system works.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Richard Willmsen <rwillmsen at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Ending is a bit botched but it was a satisfying rant to write :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> https://infinite-coincidence.com/2017/07/05/pynchon-and-postal-deregulation/
>>>> -
>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
-
Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l