Pynchon

I'm currently reading the massive Thomas Pynchon novel "Against the Day." It's fantastic and exasperating at the same time. Pynchon is an Official Tommorrow-Land-Certified Fucking Genius, but the book is also insanely complex. Characters come and go. Plot lines dodge and weave. There are references to shit that even the smartest people won't pick up. And because he's a postmodernist, you can expect him to throw a little supernatural stuff at you.

That's why I'm so fascinated that there's an actual "Against the Day" wiki devoted to explaining all the obscure details of the book. Comparing it to the Cliffs Notes version wouldn't do this justice. This wiki actually makes it more complicated.

Humans can fly

Really, they can now. (I embedded this video, but you really should blow it up to full-screen.)


wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.

Budapest vs. Bucharest

Go test your mad geography skillz.

My best score is a 26,100.

The Super Bowl menu

We do it up right at our house. Yesterday's menu for the Super Bowl party we hosted (everything was homemade!):

- buffalo wings with homemade bleu cheese dipping sauce
- honey mustard wings
- grilled turkey sliders with homemade buns
- macaroni and cheese
- vegetarian chili
- chips with homemade guacamole
- bacon-wrapped roasted figs
- barbecued jerk shrimp
- baked french fried and sweet potato fries
- Steelers-themed (yellow and black) almond cookies