Thursday, 12 November 1998
I remember traffic jams, motor boys and girls with tans, nearly-was
and almost-rans, I remember this. History is made to seem unfair.
—Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe
So I'm currently all into "Green." Since I am too poor to go buy "Up."
On which note I have recently been informed that I could make fuckloads
of money by linking this site—yes, this very site—to Barnes & Noble
Online. Which as far as I am concerned constitutes selling out. Even
though I have already linked this site (no, okay, not this exact
site—this
exact site) to Amazon.com. But I did that out of niceness. And
because I hoped that maybe since I was plugging their books, the authors
whose copyrights I blithely ignored on my
literature
site would decide not to sue me. But not because I was getting paid.
And anyway, even though I love Barnes and Noble, and even though I do
in fact haunt their aisles during my vacations (because, frankly,
Princeton has this insane schedule that has been in effect since
1843 and is designed expressly to ensure that we are never, ever, at
home at the same time as people who attend any other American institution
of higher learning, which as far as I am concerned is a conscious
effort on the part of Big Brother—aka. C. Anthony Broh, Registrar—to
sever our ties to any-
and everything other than Princeton University), and even though, to be
straight with you, I hate independent booksellers, because lets be
totally honest here it is completely fucking impossible to
find anything in them since they appear to have an unwritten although
eerily universal policy of
arranging their merchandise in the most confusing of all possible ways,
I am still unwilling to aid Barnes and Noble in their quest for world
domination. It's just a policy I have: No world domination except
by me. And I adhere strictly to the age-old time-tested strategy of
divide and conquer.
Continue within this site
Get the hell out.